In this interview, Alex Tsankov talks to Donald McIntyre about the SHA 3 Classic Coalition which is a group of ETC engineers and participants implementing an integration, testnet, and eventual deployment to change the Ethereum Classic mining algorithm.
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The topics we spoke about were:
1. What is Alex Tsankov’s background and expertise?
– Works at Bloomberg
– Studied computer science and philosophy
2. What was the antecedent and motivation to start the SHA 3 Classic Coalition?
– Historic 51% attacks on ETC
– For ETC to be the leader in the SHA 3 based mining algorithm
3. What is the position of the other developer teams in ETC?
– ETC Cooperative: Hyperledger Besu client
– IOHK: Mantis client
– ETC Labs: Core Geth client
4. What is the position of other constituents?
– Exchanges
– Node operators
– Miners
– Mining Pools
5. What are the next steps to implement SHA 3 on ETC?
– Integrate it in Hyperledger Besu
– Create a testnet for anyone to test it
– Invite the Mantis and Core Geth client teams to join the testnet
– Once it is safe and tested, to set a future block number to upgrade ETC
– Communicate and coordinate with miners, exchanges, node operators, and mining pools
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