Somewhat confusingly,
the old Ethereum network has been rebranded as «Ethereum Classic»; the new network retained the original name, Ethereum.
Not exact matches
He noted that while
older GPUs could be used to mine ether - the cryptocurrency of the
ethereum network - doing so would mean a reduced chance of rewards given its existing competition.
Since, again, much of
ethereum classic is the same as the
old network, most users with a balance on one of them can use it on the other, but this could theoretically result in some funny mistakes, like unintentionally moving funds on one of the other
networks.
Gareth Grobler, the founder of ICE3X is confident about the relevance of ether currency to traders, he says, «The two - year
old system has picked up backing from both tech geeks and big corporate names like JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft, which are excited about
Ethereum's goal of providing not only a digital currency but also a new type of global computing
network, which generally requires Ether to use.»