Ethereum Classic Hashrate Rises Following Successful Thanos Hardfork

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The ethereum classic (ETC) blockchain’s hashrate has risen to 5.21 TH/S following the successful implementation of the Thanos hard fork in the early hours of Nov 29.

The hard fork, which was primarily intended to increase the chain‘s security by boosting its hashrate, appears to have succeeded.

The hashrate rose from 3.3TH/S pre-fork to 5TH/S in the hours following the fork.

Ethereum Classic: Thanos Hard Fork Background
The Ethereum Classic blockchain uses a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) whose main purpose is to prevent hash power centralization in the hands of ASIC miners by providing ASIC resistance that favors GPU miners.

According to ETC devs, this strategy was a success, evidenced later by the development of ASIC miners that could compete favorably with GPUs.

The problem, however, was that the DAG parameters were too aggressive, eventually rendering GPU miners obsolete on the ETC blockchain.

To fix this, the Thanos hard fork planned to reduce the size of the DAG file from 3.95GB to 2.47GB. This would bring GPU miners (rendered obsolete by the large file size) back into the game.

The fork also proposed to double the ETC mining period (epoch) from 30,000 blocks to 60,000 blocks, which would buy existing GPU miners at least another three years.

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