ECIP-1017 — With this fork ETC will have a stable coin supply. Going live around December 12th.
ECIP-1035 — Stealth addresses to keep transactions private, just like a bank account or credit card. This builds upon ECIP-1025 which provides for RingCT/zkSNARKs-style transactions.
So there you have it, all that’s new in Classic in the past 2 months. Delivered by our 3 development teams, ETCDEV, Ethereum Commonwealth, and IOHK. And this is just the new announcements, for even more recent Classic goodness check out my previous article.
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So there will be no free coins because its only a soft fork or a network update.
Anyway ive been mining ETC since ETH diff bomb.
And ETC was underpriced at 11$
That means its already x3 profits at the current price.