Blockchain
By Ayobami Abiola
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Ethereum Classic developers and community members have been in various discussions over the past few months on how to improve the blockchain to become more resistant to…
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Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Cardano, had previously proposed that the block rewards be slashed.
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Luke Williams, a contributor to Ethereum Classic, proposed ECIP 1099, the calibration of the “epoch length used in DAG calculations”, on September 10th to make the chain more GPU…
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“The original intent of the DAG was to provide ASIC resistance to the mining protocol in order to prevent centralization of mining distributions and thereby provide for an…
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The proposal was to calibrate the Epoch duration so that the DAG size will be reduced and its growth rate will support a 4.0GB GPU size for the next three years plus.
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“At current epoch (372) the DAG size is 3.91 GB. 4GB GPUs are getting obsoleted while they still make up a significant amount of ethash hashrate.
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The proposal was accepted and the hard fork named Thanos will be pushed in late November 2020 (~block 11_700_000).
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Ethereum Classic has proven over and over to be battle-hardened. It has received great support from developers from the blockchain ecosystem.
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