Classix is an open source development agency with skin in the game, building and maintaining critical infrastructure for Ethereum Classic.
Joined June 2018
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Classix retweeted
1/ Project Triforce is a grid of Ethereum Classic nodes we run. It serves the public RPC and watches the network: client diversity, reorgs, the mempool and every peer it can see.
Four clients. Three providers. Three regions. Three sync modes.
Here’s why each number is there. 🧵
Classix retweeted
Heading to Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Nov. 2?
Join us after for a small Ethereum Classic meetup, the night before Devcon.
📍 Leopold Cafe, Colaba - 7pm
Quantum. Proof-of-Work. Cypherpunk roots. Where the EVM goes next.
Any chain, any background. Free
RSVP 👉 luma.com/flt0wvtq
#Devcon8
Classix retweeted
Zcash’s preconfirmations proposal: merchants get a signed receipt that a payment is on its way into a block.
Accept payments in seconds, not after confirmations. No consensus change, and it fits any proof-of-work chain, including Ethereum Classic.
Is it worth building on $ETC?
ALT credit to deltadevs for the zcash proposal and demo.
Classix retweeted
Three ideas we brought home from #TOKEN2049🇸🇬
• Preconfirmations: merchants can accept ETC in seconds, with no protocol change
• Hash-based security: #ETH is heading there, ETC is already there
• Cypherpunk roots: Zcash tells the story loudly, ETC should more often
Which should $ETC take on first?
Classix retweeted
This one was interesting: comparing the top holders of $ETC at the time of The DAO hard fork.
The top 10 ETC holders at block 1,920,000, where Ethereum and Ethereum Classic split.
#4 is the DAO attacker, with 3.64M $ETC.
#2 and #9 are the White Hat DAOs, holding about 7.88M ETC rescued from The DAO.
On #Ethereum, the fork moved all of those funds into a refund contract. On #EthereumClassic nothing moved, so they show up here exactly where they sat.
The rest of the list is the 2016 ecosystem: four exchanges (Kraken, Poloniex, Bitfinex and Gemini), the Ethereum Foundation’s EthDev wallet and a genesis address.
An archive node can’t give you this list without going through the whole chain. In BigQuery, it’s one query. 👇
Classix retweeted
The top 10 ETC holders at block 1,920,000, where Ethereum and Ethereum Classic split.
#4 is the DAO attacker, with 3.64M $ETC.
#2 and #9 are the White Hat DAOs, holding about 7.88M ETC rescued from The DAO.
On #Ethereum, the fork moved all of those funds into a refund contract. On #EthereumClassic nothing moved, so they show up here exactly where they sat.
The rest of the list is the 2016 ecosystem: four exchanges (Kraken, Poloniex, Bitfinex and Gemini), the Ethereum Foundation’s EthDev wallet and a genesis address.
An archive node can’t give you this list without going through the whole chain. In BigQuery, it’s one query. 👇
Classix retweeted
This one’s for the builders.👨🏻💻
Full ETC history is back in BigQuery: same schema as ETH, existing queries work with one-line change. Kept current by our team at @classix_dev, and the first TiB of queries each month is free.
Classix retweeted
On Wednesday @drakefjustin asked holders to consider moving funds to addresses that have never signed.
We ran the numbers on ETC:
83% of ETC sits at addresses whose public key is on-chain.
14.5M ETC is on keys that haven't signed in 3+ years.
classix.dev/etc-key-exposure
Classix retweeted
Google's public dataset stopped updating in 2020.
Classix rebuilt it from their own archive nodes.
This is what community-driven infrastructure looks like. 🔍
#ETC
Ethereum Classic is back in Google BigQuery.
Google’s public dataset stopped updating in 2020. We rebuilt it from our own archive nodes.
Now anyone can query the entire ETC chain in SQL, including questions an archive node alone can’t easily answer. 🔍
classix.dev/etc-in-bigquery
Classix retweeted
Ethereum Classic is back in Google BigQuery.
Google’s public dataset stopped updating in 2020. We rebuilt it from our own archive nodes.
Now anyone can query the entire ETC chain in SQL, including questions an archive node alone can’t easily answer. 🔍
classix.dev/etc-in-bigquery
Classix retweeted
$ETC is back on Google #BigQuery, thanks to @classix_dev.
Query the chain from genesis to now, to your heart’s content. 💚
Ethereum Classic is back in Google BigQuery.
Google’s public dataset stopped updating in 2020. We rebuilt it from our own archive nodes.
Now anyone can query the entire ETC chain in SQL, including questions an archive node alone can’t easily answer. 🔍
classix.dev/etc-in-bigquery
Classix retweeted
We had a blast on the @ETCGrantsDao AMA last week. Thanks for having us!💚
And if you caught Istora's little breadcrumb: something special is coming back to ETC — this one's for the builders.🛠️
It's just around the corner. 👀
What's next for #EthereumClassic?
@Classic_Kevin_ and @Istora_ETC sat down with @ETCGrantsDAO to talk:
• Core ETC infrastructure: Triforce public Nix configs, RPC endpoint, block explorer
• Client diversity on $ETC: Nethermind, Besu, Classic Geth
• Where @classix_dev fits in the ecosystem
Full AMA below.🎧
Classix retweeted
A chain is only as decentralized as its centralized bottleneck.
That means more than one of:
Clients
Mining pools
Exchanges
RPC endpoints + explorers
Dev funding sources
Including teams — that means us too.
Why Every Part of the Stack Needs a Backup ⤵
classix.dev/the-praxeology-o…
ALT Five rows of green tiles labelled Clients, Mining pools, Exchanges, RPC and explorers, and Developer funding, under the headline "More than one of everything. Including us." One tile in the RPC row is dashed and labelled Classix.
Classix retweeted
A chain is only as decentralized as its least replicated layer.
Clients, pools, exchanges, RPCs, explorers, and funding are all single points of failure if they exist in one or few hands.
Replication across independent operators removes custody. Dependency on any one team, including @classix_dev, restores it.
Classix looking out for the best interests of $ETC💚
A chain is only as decentralized as its centralized bottleneck.
That means more than one of:
Clients
Mining pools
Exchanges
RPC endpoints + explorers
Dev funding sources
Including teams — that means us too.
Why Every Part of the Stack Needs a Backup ⤵
classix.dev/the-praxeology-o…
ALT Five rows of green tiles labelled Clients, Mining pools, Exchanges, RPC and explorers, and Developer funding, under the headline "More than one of everything. Including us." One tile in the RPC row is dashed and labelled Classix.
Classix retweeted
Sovereign grade censorship resistance means one thing:
No nation state, company, or foundation can stop the chain.
Not "hasn't," but Could Never.
Once one party can, you are trusting that party. Trusted third-parties are security holes.
Two towers can look identical from the street.
The difference is underground:
Layer 1: the chain
Layer 0: the people
Layer -1: the principles beneath the people
Soil moves. Bedrock doesn't.
Why $ETC's foundations hold. Read more below.
classix.dev/the-praxeology-o… by @Istora_ETC
Classix retweeted
Classix Dev Team @classix_dev making it easy for devs. 👨🏻💻
Same tools. Different foundation.
#EthereumClassic runs the stack you already use.
Don't take our word for it. Take our RPC 👇
🔗 rpc.classix.dev
✅ Free
✅ No key
✅ Archive methods included
Chain ID 61.
Verify it yourself. Tell us what you find! 🔧
Classix retweeted
Don't take our word for it. Take our RPC 👇
🔗 rpc.classix.dev
✅ Free
✅ No key
✅ Archive methods included
Chain ID 61.
Verify it yourself. Tell us what you find! 🔧
#VeriFriday 001
Same tools. Different foundation.
#EthereumClassic runs the stack you already use:
Hardhat ✅
Foundry ✅
ethers.js ✅
viem ✅
wagmi ✅
Chain ID 61. Swap the RPC.
Your code doesn't change. What secures it does.
Don't trust. Verify. Run it yourself 👇
