Ethereum Classic is a project to keep the original censorship-resistant, immutable, decentralized Ethereum

Developers will be building on our immutable chain, are you ready? Code is law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOxwuoJaJXc

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ETC Businesses Ethereum Classic Labs - https://etclabs.org/ ~~ETCBets - https://www.etcbets.com/ - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1907827.0~~ Community http://www.ethereumclassic.org http://ethcwiki.org/ https://github.com/ethereumproject https://github.com/ethereumclassic https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/ https://twitter.com/eth_classic https://ethereumclassic.herokuapp.com/ - Slack https://telegram.me/ethclassic https://telegram.me/ethereumclassic https://trello.com/b/aiSzWBm7/ethereum-classic-clients QQ Groups: 361470220 - 568474359 Russian https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1563268 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1563328 https://ethclassic.ru Indonesian https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1563400 There are no bounties at this time Exchanges https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_etc https://poloniex.com/exchange#usdt_etc https://poloniex.com/exchange#eth_etc https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-ETC https://www.kraken.com https://www.bitfinex.com ~~https://c-cex.com/?p=etc-btc~~ C-CEX is not recommended https://shapeshift.io https://changelly.com https://bitsquare.io https://anycoindirect.eu/buy/etherclassic https://www.bitwa.la https://www.chbtc.com/etc https://yunbi.com/markets/etccny?confirm=true https://bter.com/trade/etc_btc https://bter.com/trade/etc_eth https://www.korbit.co.kr/etc_market https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ETC_BTC https://www.bitmex.com/app/trade/ETC24H https://www.coinexchange.io/market/ETC/BTC https://yobit.net/en/trade/ETC/BTC Wallets and Explorers https://github.com/ethereumproject/mist/releases https://github.com/ethereumproject/go-ethereum/releases https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/download/0.8.1/Ethereum-Wallet-win64-0-8-1.zip Choose NO fork You can't have the forked blockchain though. So if you already had this software you need to rename Mist and Ethereum in appdata to start fresh and choose no fork. https://info.shapeshift.io/blog/2016/08/03/shapeshift-releases-ethereum-splitter-cleanly-separate-eth-and-etc https://elaineo.github.io/etherwallet/ https://classicetherwallet.com https://etherx.com http://www.fauceting.com/faucet/74 http://coinmarketcap.com https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/etc/overview http://polotrex.com https://www.etc-eth.com http://fork.ethstats.net http://stats.ethc.io http://etcstats.net http://www.etcminer.com http://ethereumwisdom.com/#!/ethclassic https://etcchain.com/ http://blocks.elaineou.com http://gastracker.io http://classic.aakilfernandes.com http://explorer.ethereumclassic.com https://minergate.com/blockchain/etc/blocks https://minergate.com/calculator/ethereum Pools - I can't vouch for any though https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/etc https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/#/pools?f0=ETC https://etherx.com/pools - Hashrate distribution http://etc.ethermine.org https://etc.bw.com https://f2pool.com http://ethc.epool.io http://clu.epool.io http://pool.ethereumclassic.com https://ethc.coin-miners.info http://etc.nanopool.org https://etcpool.io https://etc.suprnova.cc https://minergate.com http://etc.coinpool.biz http://www.ethteam.com http://etc.poolto.be http://yolo.ethclassic.faith https://ethereum-classic.miningpoolhub.com http://etc.coinpool.biz https://www.coinotron.com [Suspicious link removed] http://etc.4miners.net http://etc.akasha-pool.eu https://aikapool.com/etc http://etc.pool.sexy https://pool.zet-tech.eu https://etcmine.pro https://ucrypto.net/pools/ Press http://fortune.com/2016/09/04/ethereum-fall-out/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOxwuoJaJXc - Ethereum Classic Video https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/ethereum-classic-community-navigates-a-distinct-path-to-the-future-1471620464 https://youtu.be/Vgz7k5iTGkI https://steemit.com/ethereum/@charleshosk/thoughts-on-an-ethereum-classic-roadmap http://cointimes.tech/2016/08/13/ethereum-reputation-has-been-damaged-with-the-finance-and-banking-community/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGGW9ozE-ys http://www.nasdaq.com/article/how-the-great-ethereum-schism-can-end-well-for-ethereum-classic-part-2-of-3-cm657748 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-the-great-ethereum-schism-can-end-well-for-ethereum-classic-part-of-1469905980 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/rejecting-today-s-hard-fork-the-ethereum-classic-project-continues-on-the-original-chain-here-s-why-1469038808 http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2016/07/21/a-painful-lesson-for-the-ethereum-community/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2016/07/28/ethereum-the-battle-of-the-chains http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-hard-fork-creates-competing-currencies-support-ethereum-classic-rises/ https://medium.com/@zsfelfoldi/a-tale-of-two-chains-3f6d58a9df4a https://medium.com/@Stampery/why-stampery-supports-ethereum-classic-4c86ec7cca17 https://steemit.com/ethereum/@cryptorune/a-ethereum-civil-war-is-happening-right-now-and-why-classic-should-win https://ethereumheadlines.com/2016/07/25/ethereum-classic-is-now-trading-on-poloniex/ http://www.coindesk.com/tale-two-chains-ethereum/ http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/07/26/case-ethereum-classic/ https://steemit.com/dao/@gedae/the-dao-and-the-benefactors http://themerkle.com/etc-trumps-ethereum-trading-volume-on-poloniex/ https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@whalepanda/what-happened-with-ethereum-usdeth-and-ethereum-classic-usdetc Ideology We believe in decentralized, censorship-resistant, permissionless, IMMUTABLE blockchains. We believe in the original vision of Ethereum as a world computer you can't shut down, running irreversible smart contracts. We believe in a strong separation of concerns, where system forks are only possible in order to correct actual platform bugs, not to bail out failed contracts and special interests. We believe in censorship-resistant platform that can be actually trusted - by anyone. Code is law. More: https://medium.com/@bit_novosti/a-crypto-decentralist-manifesto-6ba1fa0b9ede Motivation Ethereum Foundation responded to DAO debacle in the worst way possible. Special interests controlling the Foundation are ramming through DAO bailout hardfork against principled opposition of a significant economic minority of Ethereum stakeholders. According to (diligently hidden, pro-fork) coin vote on Carbonvote, 19% of ETH holders oppose this hardfork. Also, about 22% of Ethereum miners voted against the previous 'DAO softfork' and would logically oppose hardfork as well. Such a significant minority of stakeholders should not be silenced or intimidated into submission - they should be given a clear choice. If we want to continue to move forward and guarantee survival of the original Ethereum vision, we must fork Ethereum. This will lay the foundation to build secure decentralized applications that are actually censorship resistant. More: https://github.com/ethereumclassic/freeworldcomputer-project Goals The main goal of the project is to ensure survival of the original Ethereum blockchain. We will strive to provide alternative for people who strongly disagree with DAO bailout and the direction Ethereum Foundation is taking their project. Anyone opting to remain on the original chain should have such opportunity. Development We fork Ethereum and maintain upstream patches similar to the relation between Redhat and CentOS, until a community can form around the project and create a road map. Until this happens we can fork multiple existing clients to help prevent a monoculture of clients. We plan to follow https://github.com/ethereum development except for any features they introduce into existing clients that violate the key principles of openness, neutrality and immutability. Code: https://github.com/ethereumclassic What can I do? Please help us spread the word about this project in Ethereum community! Volunteers If you feel strongly about the cause, please get involved. With just days before the planned hardfork, we need your support to ensure original Ethereum survival. We need more developers, website designers, people who can write and advocate the need for Ethereum Classic. Please let us know what are your skills and how you would like to contribute. Redditors, please reply here. Github users, please open new issue. Users In order to remain on the original Ethereum chain, just don't upgrade to hardfork client version pushed by Ethereum Foundation. We will maintain non-fork versions of all major Ethereum clients (as well as other key software), so going forwards all the improvements will be available to you. Fun fact. If you keep ETH under your direct control (not in a 3rd party wallet or exchange account), you will have two sets of coins instead of one post-fork. You could then install a forked Ethereum client in addition to Ethereum Classic, copy your private keys there and use your coins on both chains! You won't be so lucky if your ETH are locked with 3rd party going into the fork - some exchanges already announced that they will only return one type of coin post-fork to its users. Miners Miners supporting the original chain should just keep mining with current version of software for now, without upgrading to client version introducing the hardfork code. It will be always possible to download and build latest non-fork version from https://github.com/ethereumclassic. The difficulty of the original chain will be quite high post-fork, but it will adjust to actual hashrate shortly (just 2048 blocks, a few hours). Since it is expected that most hashrate will move to hardfoked chain, post-adjustment it will be possible to obtain decent mining rewards in classic ethers even with solo mining. Because the difficulty adjusts quickly, it will be also quite possible to solo mine soon after the fork. If you intend to mine Ethereum Classic, please don't upgrade to geth 1.4.10 just yet, due to potential vulnerability. We will inform you when it's safe to upgrade. For now, just solo-mine with geth 1.4.9 or any earlier version, or use Classic pool. Traders https://bitsquare.io/ Most important question for traders is 'will ETHC have market price'? There are all reasons to believe that it will. Essentially, ETHC is an Ethereum 'spinoff coin' with a wide user base of all current ETH users. Some of them will see the value of transacting on a censorship-resistant chain, some won't. This creates interesting arbitrage opportunities for smart traders. Additional reasoning why EHTC is very unlikely to be 'worthless'. Both Poloniex and Bitfinex announced that they will assign their users both ETH and ETHC after the fork. This is a step in the right direction, now it's up to these major exchanges to enable ETH/ETHC trading that will no doubt be demanded by users. Decentralized exchange Bitsquare announced ETHC trading right after the fork. Other trading venues will follow since there is a strong business case. We are in touch with several other exchanges to add ETHC trading to their platforms. If your exchange is interested in ETHC trading, please contact us. Let's make sure original Ethereum vision doesn't just "go gentle into that good night"! https://github.com/ethereumclassic/README