ETC Weekly #1 | Network security, Thanos hard-fork, ECIP comparison

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Protocol News

• The majority of ETC mining pools now have ECIP-1100 (MESS) enabled. Therefore the incentive for a 51% attack is greatly reduced because they would have to produce a chain segment with greater total difficulty than the canonical chain.
• Thanos hard-fork: ECIP-1099 is accepted which will halve the size and growth rate of the DAG. ECIP-1099 will require a hard-fork, code-named, Thanos. Both Hyperledger Besu and Core-geth support ECIP-1099 and upon successful testing, the Thanos hard-fork would occur at block 11,700,000. It’s important to note that because of the DAG modification will change the algorithm to be Etchash instead of Ethash.

Below you’ll find a page of resources for Etchash

• Etchash resources:

eth-classic/etchash

Below are the currently supported clients:

• Hyperledger Besu 20.10.0-RC2 or later.
• Core-geth 1.11.16 or later.

Research

• The ETC Cooperative and IOHK have collaborated to produce an ECIP Comparison for 51% Attack Resistance to provide the broader community with knowledge and understanding on how resist 51% attacks.

ECIP Comparison Report

• Ensuring ETC network security — a comparison of 51% Attack Resistance proposals for Ethereum Classic

Ensuring ETC network security — a comparison of 51% Attack Resistance proposals for Ethereum…

Development Updates

Mantis is the first original ETC protocol providing node client by IOHK and it’s coming back! The Mantis team publishes weekly development updates available on IOHK’s YouTube channel.

• Ethereum Classic — Mantis: IOHK Weekly Development Update #4 22 October 2020

• Ethereum Classic — Mantis: IOHK Weekly Development Update #3 15 October 2020

News, Events, Other

• Ethereum Classic’s MESS Solution Won’t Provide ‘Robust’ Security Against 51% Attacks: Report | Article by Coindesk

Ethereum Classic's MESS Solution Won't Provide 'Robust' Security Against 51% Attacks: Report …

• Ethereum Classic Labs Announces Chasing the GHOST: Network Security Hackathon, Nov 2, 2020 — Jan 11, 2021

Ethereum Classic Labs Announces Chasing the GHOST: Network Security Hackathon, Nov 2, 2020 — Jan…

• How to Mine Ethereum and Ethereum Classic on 4GB GPUs by Pool2Miners

How to Mine Ethereum and Ethereum Classic on 4GB GPUs

• Ethereum Classic Confirmation Times Are Low Again! by Red Panda Mining

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