ETC: Imminent rise of an underdog

We all love an underdog and Ethereum Classic is one in the short history of Crypto currencies and blockchain. It's a project that stuck to its core values of decentralisation and immutability. The debate that engulfed the ETH community soon after the DAO fiasco saw a split in July 2016 and a new project emerging. Vitalik Buterin moved on with Ethereum and the original version got christened Ethereum Classic. Classic inherited the challenges of "difficulty bomb" from the original code base that lead to the hack attack in May 2016. The team had their task cut out and it was never going to be easy.

Buterin stuck to a rigorous PR campaign to push ETH to the centre-stage in 2017. Most developers began launching projects on the ETH blockchain while the Classic froze in the cold with little funds for further development. Despite tough days after the hard fork, ETC's team remained focused on values of immutability. In 2018, the Classic or the original project is poised to touch new heights as it over comes some of its security flaws and issues around scalability.

Charles Hoskinsons, one of the brains behind the ETC project, is confident that the project's bitter days are over and it's only being launched now. ETC is soon unveiling its Emerald project on 30th April. This will address security issues of ETC and ensure developers can economically build their projects on the blockchain.
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ETC is easily one of the most undervalued projects out there despite being called the "original" Ethereum. Ethereum is today 30 times bigger than Ethereum Classic. For ETH, the total number of coins that will be in existence will never be known. Ethereum has kept it this way to avoid any future DAO kind of a scenario where its security is compromised. But ETC's supply is limited and will also remain so, helping the value of coin to appreciate eventually.

The ETC team recently did an airdrop of Callisto side chain which will help the project in scaling issues.
In the coming months, miners associated with the ETC will profit more as the Difficulty Bomb has been diffused permanently after some delay in testing and validating before implementation. The Difficulty Bomb was inherited by ETC from the original codebase. The blockchain, which carried the vulnerability of DAO hack, has revised the dangers and are carefully treading into a new path and investors and developers will take serious note of this.