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Story: 425 out of 615 Current Ethereum Classic (ETC) Nodes will not Upgrade in Future

By Maheen Hernandez

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Ethereum Classic (ETC) Improving Capabilities of Bitcoin  

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ETC Labs recently announced Cohort III by @Venture_This and clarified that this is done with a focus on the ETC blockchain for impact and startups which support social, and…

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Also, Ethereum Classic (ETC) tweeted:  “We highly recommend all OE node operators to switch to the latest Hyperledger Besu ETC release. @Hyperledger Besu v1.

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Coindesk recently published about how Open Ethereum have decided to stop their support for the Ethereum Classic client in order to focus on their other projects.

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This means that 425 out of 615 current Ethereum Classic nodes would not upgrade in the future while developers make changes through hard forks.

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Thus Besu will have only three nodes and the Core Geth and 187 will be supporting if a hard fork will occur.

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Martin Köppelmann, Gnosis Founder reportedly is said to have told “Gnosis did not have the capacity or the willingness to get involved into the governance (aka “drama”) of other…

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In response, Sydney Ifergan, the crypto expert tweeted:  “It just feels very complicated to iron out the differences between ETC and ETH.

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The decreasing numbers of nodes needs to be fixed.  Perhaps some blockchain divorces are irrevocable!

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At this right we need to wonder if there is a real hope for long-term interoperability between the chains.

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