Ethereum Classic ETC
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CM Profile: Ethereum Classic
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about ETC, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost 0.44% on each, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold ETC. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 October- Price down 12.1% since 1 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell ETC
Selling $100,000 of ETC into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase ETC/USD | 0.44% | $99,563 | 2026-10-08 |
| Kraken ETC/USD | 0.44% | $99,562 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps ETC on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Ethereum Classic is
Ethereum Classic is the original Ethereum blockchain, continuing unaltered. In 2016 an investment fund built on Ethereum called The DAO was drained of roughly a third of its funds through a flaw in its code. The community voted to change the ledger to reverse it; the chain that adopted that change is the Ethereum most people use today, and the chain that refused it is Ethereum Classic.
The disagreement was about a principle rather than a feature. If a ledger can be rewritten when the outcome is bad enough, the argument runs, then immutability is a convention rather than a guarantee — so ETC kept the record as it was written, including the theft. It also kept proof-of-work mining after Ethereum moved to proof of stake in 2022.
That principled position has a measurable cost. A smaller chain sharing a mining algorithm with much larger ones can be attacked by temporarily renting more computing power than it has, and Ethereum Classic has suffered several such reorganisations, including a run of them in 2020. Development activity and application usage are a small fraction of Ethereum's. It is not a cheaper version of Ethereum — it is a separate network that does not share its ecosystem.
What Ethereum Classic can do
Selling $100,000 on Coinbase lost 0.44% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
Ethereum Classic pays nothing for being held. New coins are issued to the miners whose computers do the work of running it.
Source: Ethereum Classic: the supply cap · checked 2 October 2026
Ethereum Classic runs programs stored on its chain, and calls itself the continuation of the original Ethereum of 2015. Its stated rule is that a deployed program is never stopped or interfered with.
Source: Ethereum Classic: why Classic · checked 2 October 2026
Ethereum Classic has a supply cap of the kind Bitcoin has: the reward paid to miners shrinks on a fixed schedule.
Source: Ethereum Classic: the supply cap · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
Ethereum Classic has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Price change
Ethereum Classic data synced 5m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell ETC.