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Ethereum Classic market info

Market cap
Market cap is calculated by multiplying the circulating supply of a coin with its latest price.
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Total amount of a coin that is publicly available on the market.
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Market cap
$2.60B
Circulating supply
152,144,152 ETC
72.20% of
210,700,000 ETC
Market cap ranking
33
Audits
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Last audit: Jun 8, 2021, (UTC+8)
24h high
$17.1100
24h low
$16.6000
All-time high
$179.99
-90.50% (-$162.89)
Last updated: May 7, 2021, (UTC+8)
All-time low
$3.1160
+448.78% (+$13.9840)
Last updated: Mar 13, 2020, (UTC+8)

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SWFT Blockchain
SWFT Blockchain
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CoinDesk
CoinDesk
Trading platform eToro (ETOR) has expanded its crypto offerings in the U.S., adding 12 new digital assets including Dogecoin DOGE, Cardano ADA and XRP XRP, the company said Wednesday. The additions bring the total number of cryptocurrencies available to U.S. users to 15. The new tokens also include Aave AAVE, Chainlink LINK, Compound COMP, Ethereum Classic ETC, Litecoin LTC, Uniswap UNI, Stellar XLM, Shiba Inu SHIB, and Yearn Finance YFI. Previously, U.S.-based users could only trade Bitcoin BTC, Bitcoin Cash BCH and Ethereum ETH on the platform. The move is part of eToro’s push to widen its footprint in the U.S. market and to meet retail demand and match offerings from larger players like Coinbase (COIN) and Robinhood (HOOD). The announcement comes just weeks after eToro made its public debut on Nasdaq, marking the first U.S. crypto firm to go public after months of trade tensions and shaky markets. Stablecoin issuer Circle, who has long had plans to go public, filed for its initial public offering on Tuesday. Despite the turbulent macro backdrop, eToro’s IPO was well-received. The company raised around $310 million, surpassing expectations and signaling investor interest in the combined stock and crypto trading platform model. Shares are modestly lower on Wednesday at $64.15, but remain nicely above the IPO price of $52. Disclaimer: Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to our standards. For more information, see CoinDesk’s full AI Policy.
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有故事的NPC
有故事的NPC
Why do POS projects not have the stability of POW and have a high market cap? Because the POS and these additional coins are all printed out of thin air It's all for nothing, and when it is printed, it will definitely be smashed directly And pow each coin is dug up with real money and at risk Miners will value coins more than they spend their money on Can it be the same? So, I'm still very bullish on PoW coins It's hard for me to say if the cottage season will come if you ask me But if Bitcoin continues to skyrocket, then there will inevitably be a big wave of high-quality POWs
有故事的NPC
有故事的NPC
What's left of POW? What other cryptocurrencies are POW-based? New leeks may not yet know what POW and POS are I think it's good to get to know it Bao Er Ye also said that POW is the white moonlight in his heart Pick a POW coin to buy some in case you get rich? - POW is a proof-of-work mechanism, which means that it requires mining rigs to produce coins, and there are very few tokens that still use POW POS is a proof-of-stake mechanism, by staking tokens is equivalent to mining, the more tokens you own, the greater the return, and now 99.99% of coins are in this mode Some people say that POW has brought a lot of energy waste and is no longer suitable for this world, in order to improve environmental protection and efficiency, POS is the general trend Some people say that POW is a coin generated by graphics cards and pure CPU or mining machine mining is more proof that the whole people participate in bookkeeping and the whole people witness. If the founder is gone; The exchange ceased trading; These coins will still have a certain value, because they were produced by the whole people. These coins are priceless in the hearts of every miner. - Personally, I think that the POW model is advocated by Satoshi Nakamoto The traditional blockchain model requires a huge cost, and it takes thousands of miners to maintain a blockchain ledger, and it requires a lot of mining machines and energy. If a new token adopts this model, it will be difficult to survive, not to mention the high cost of mining machines and the high cost of the project party, and it will be difficult for even leeks to generate consensus Therefore, in the eyes of the project team, POW needs a huge amount of cost, a colorful plot and story, and a large number of mining machines The POS only takes a few minutes to create a token, and the rest is all done by flickering Therefore, 99.99% of the projects now are in POS mode But then again, 0.01% of projects are POW Let's take a look at what these projects are 1.BTC Bitcoin is the world's first cryptocurrency, and the highest value of a single currency has already broken through 7W dollars, and one coin and one villa may become a reality. You can only buy an integrated mining machine to mine, which is very expensive and consumes a lot of electricity. 2.DOGE Dogecoin is the most successful meme, and Bitcoin is the same pow model, and Litecoin is mined with the same mining machine, why 90% of memes are called dog? Because Dogecoin is so famous, even the founder gave up, but was directly taken away by the richest man, and Dogecoin is equivalent to Bitcoin in meme 3.LTC Litecoin has occupied the second place in market value for many years, and now it has fallen to the altar, and the price of the currency is gone, and the market value has fallen from the second to more than 20th. Litecoin is also Pow like Bit, and Dogecoin uses the same mining machine for mining, after all, it is the second brother, and the dog had to imitate it when he saw it. 4.ETC In 2016, Ethereum was stolen after the hard fork The new chain is the famous ETH, and ETC is the original chain before the fork, the project emphasizes that ETC is the real Ethereum, I feel that most of it is because of money to promote it, ETH has long been changed to POS, and ETC insists on using POW, which is currently generated by graphics card mining, and the cost of electricity is huge. The first time because of theft, I forked ETC The second upgrade of the POS forked ETHW again As for why so many forked coins are generated I think it's because of money and people's desires, after all, ETH is so successful that it will take a long time to rub it. 5.BCH Known as the prince coin, Bitmain (mining machine dealer) led by the great work, is produced by the Bitcoin fork, is the most successful one of the countless Bitcoin fork coins, the most glorious time The currency price once replaced Bitcoin to become a brother, giving people a feeling that the prince was about to ascend the throne after a successful rebellion, but there are still more people with positive energy in the currency circle, and they are firmly optimistic about BTC, so BCH failed to rebel, and the price plummeted, falling from 4,000 to several hundred. BCH advocates the concept of large blocks, which can be regarded as an improved version of Bitcoin, which uses the same mining machine as Bitcoin. 6.BSV This is a fork of BCH, interesting, BTC forked BCH out, and then the BCH team had infighting, and then forked BSV from BCH, and its founder Satoshi Omoto has always claimed that he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto, and said that BSV is the real Bitcoin. However, it has not received enough recognition so far. 7.XMR Monero is currently the most well-known privacy coin, but also the CPU mining handle, CPU mining big brother, but also the favorite of hackers, any computer in the Trojan, as long as you write a piece of code for hackers free mining forever, because as long as there is a CPU computer can mine Monero, the most outrageous is Monero's transfer records are completely private, can not find the identity, is overloved by hackers, the hard currency in the dark web, because it is too famous to be banned by some government agencies, It has been delisted from a number of well-known exchanges. There is a small story, once Bitmain came out with a professional mining machine, which can mine Monero with large computing power, in the past, only the CPU could mine Monero, after this mining machine came out, the CPU was cold, and the Monero team was angry, Lao Tzu CPU mining Dig well You make trouble for me, and directly hard forked the new coin, making the Monero mining machine a scrap metal Result: To appease the many people who bought the mining rigs Bitmain has hard-forked a coin XMC (known as Monroe Classic, ETC is called Ethereum Classic) to make these people who bought mining rigs a little blood, and they can dig things anyway, and then they will be gone. 8.DASH DASH is a well-known old mining coin similar to Monroe, but it is mined by a professional mining machine, and now it has fallen quite badly. 9.ZEC Zcash is also a privacy coin All transaction records can only be viewed by private key holders, mined by professional mining machines, and now it has fallen very badly. 10.KAS After ETH was transferred to pos, KAS quickly occupied a part of the computing power and began to skyrocket, which has risen hundreds of times, and was produced by graphics card mining, and the early mining has doubled, and now the market value is 4 billion US dollars. - Bitcoin (BTC) market capitalization: $1,250 billion Dogecoin (DOGE) market cap: $15.7 billion Litecoin (LTC) has a market cap of $5 billion Ethereum Classic (ETC) market capitalization: $2.8 billion Bitcoin Cash (BCH) market cap: $6.77 billion BSV market cap: $968 million Monero (XMR) market cap: $3.182 billion Dash (DASH) market cap: $300 million Zcash (ZEC) market cap: $450 million KAS market capitalization: $4 billion - Author: An NPC with a story Please indicate the source ^_^ below
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CJ
CJ
$ETC Keeping an eye on this one. Likes to scam pump sometimes with ETH strength. Compress into EMAs and push, or tag demand, under/over, then send.
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Ethereum Classic $ETC still has a market cap of $3 billion what kind of sick joke is this
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Ethereum Classic price performance in USD

The current price of Ethereum Classic is $17.1000. Over the last 24 hours, Ethereum Classic has increased by +0.47%. It currently has a circulating supply of 152,144,152 ETC and a maximum supply of 210,700,000 ETC, giving it a fully diluted market cap of $2.60B. At present, the Ethereum Classic coin holds the 33 position in market cap rankings. The Ethereum Classic/USD price is updated in real-time.
Today
+$0.080000
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7 days
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-$0.13000
-0.76%
3 months
-$1.6100
-8.61%

About Ethereum Classic (ETC)

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02/09/2023
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Ethereum Classic is a decentralized smart contract-enabled network that aims to become a global payment system. Originating from the Ethereum (ETH) network, Ethereum Classic uses the Proof of Work (PoW) consensus mechanism and supports decentralized applications (dApps).

Ethereum Classic emerged after a split of the original Ethereum blockchain due to a 2016 attack on the first-ever decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), dubbed The DAO. The attacker exploited a flaw in The DAO's code and made off with $50 million worth of ETH at the time.

In the aftermath of the attack, 97 percent of the Ethereum community voted to create a hard fork to undo the malicious transactions and restore the blockchain to its pre-hack state. The hard fork, therefore, bailed out the victims of the attack.

Although a vast majority voted for the hard fork, a few community members disagreed due to philosophical and ideological differences. They argued that blockchains should be immutable, meaning that transactions cannot be reversed, upholding the "code is law" ethos.

After the hard fork, the old Ethereum chain was supposed to be phased out, but those who disagreed with the fork kept the network alive. This led to the genesis of Ethereum Classic, with ETC as its native token. Although ETH and ETC initially shared several similarities, the two networks have grown far apart regarding technological features.

Like Ethereum before its transition to Proof of Stake (PoS), Ethereum Classic utilizes the PoW consensus mechanism that Bitcoin first introduced. PoW enables a miner-based validation and emission system where participants are incentivized to confirm that new transactions do not contradict or invalidate the data existing on the blockchain.

In addition to the peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions that Ethereum Classic enables, it also offers smart contract functionality. As such, it is possible to host tokens and build dApps on the ETC blockchain. In other words, applications launched on Ethereum Classic can issue and manage their native tokens. This system is similar to the Ethereum blockchain.

ETC functions as the payment currency of the blockchain. It can be used to pay for fees, particularly when executing smart contract-enabled applications or transferring Ethereum Classic-based tokens. ETC also anchors the mining economy of the Ethereum Classic ecosystem. The network rewards miners with ETC whenever they add a block of transactions to the blockchain.

ETC price and tokenomics

Unlike most cryptocurrencies, ETC did not emerge via a public sale or other means of crypto funding. Instead, it was created due to a changing Ethereum landscape that birthed two independent blockchains.

After the split, the Ethereum Classic decided to implement some core changes in the emission system of ETC as part of the plans to solidify its status as an independent blockchain. After reaching a consensus on implementing an ETC monetary policy, the development team launched the Gotham update in December 2017. This update put a cap on the supply of ETC.

While there was no official maximum limit for ETC's total supply before the Gotham update, its implementation restricted the number of ETC that can exist to 210.7 million tokens. Also, the emission rate of ETC was modified such that the block reward reduces by 20 percent at every 5 million block intervals.

This move established ETC as a deflationary asset. The emission rate is designed to shrink over time in the hopes that its supply will gradually fall below the demand and boost the token's value.

The ETC emission reduction protocol implemented the first block reward slash on the same day the network deployed the Gotham update. As a result, the block reward awarded to miners was reduced from 5 ETC to 4 ETC.

In March 2020, the second ETC reduction event slashed block reward by another 20 percent to 3.2 ETC. In April 2022, another 20 percent block reward slashing (from 3.2ETC to 2.56 ETC) was implemented. Based on the 5 million block emission schedule, the next reward reduction event will occur in 2024.

About the founders

Ethereum Classic is the sister blockchain to Ethereum, as they both originate from the Ethereum blockchain initially launched in 2015.

In 2016, following the establishment of Ethereum's smart contract functionality, a protocol named The DAO emerged as the first-ever decentralized autonomous organization. The DAO was supposed to allow participants to pool capital and jointly decide on the projects they would support.

Due to the novelty of The DAO and the perceived viability of its use case, it raised $150 million worth of ETH during its crowdsourcing campaign. Unfortunately, there was a vulnerability in The DAO's smart contract.

Following the security incident that threatened the reputation of the original Ethereum blockchain, a majority of Ethereum developers and stakeholders opted to move to a forked or upgraded blockchain where the hack's impact would be eliminated. However, some miners and users decided to stay on the original Ethereum blockchain, which later transformed into the Ethereum Classic network.

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