Not all participants agreed and the result was
the Ethereum chain splitting into today's Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.
Not exact matches
Ethereum Classic, the
chain that
split off from the original
Ethereum foundation after the DAO hack, releases new information on the network and its policies.
Up until the
split, many developers anticipated that in the case of a hard fork - merely a hypothetical up until The DAO event - a minority
chain like
ethereum classic would die out.
Besides the hard fork that resulted in the
split between
Ethereum and
Ethereum Classic, the
Ethereum chain has also had multiple successful hard forks.
If you look at the
Ethereum fork last year where the
chain split into two, we now have
Ethereum Classic and
Ethereum which have a community of users, separate mining operations, and different market values.
Note: The
Ethereum hard - fork is a planned fork of the network, meaning that the Metropolis upgrade is not a
split chain, such as Bitcoin Cash or
Ethereum Classic.
Since the
split from the
Ethereum classic, the main ETH
chain has undergone a number of fundamental changes and improvements which include mining changes, confidential transactions etc..