ETH and ETC still offline

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ETH and ETC still offline

by Steve Sokolowski · · Post #26816

Ethereum is still offline due to a problem that has consistently led to low luck with the coin. The issue appears to originate from cloud mining sites, and has persisted for years. Unfortunately, we don't have enough manpower to look into this issue at this time, so we don't have an ETA as to when it will be resolved. Our current highest priority is on getting the new website released, so we may come back to this issue in September or October.

Ethereum classic is still offline because all exchanges have locked their wallets, and those wallets have been locked for a while. We will resume mining ETC as soon as at least one exchange unlocks its wallet. You can contact Binance and ask them to unlock their wallet if you would like to try to move things along faster.

Thanks for your patience!
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Re: ETH and ETC still offline

by Steve Sokolowski · · Post #26831

leecher4200 wrote: That's great news! I've reconnected to the Ethash pool, but it's still mining Expanse and not ETC?
It may be that Expanse is now more stable than ETC. ETC's price and hashrate have declined significantly since there apparently was a fight over the future of the coin.

You can force mine ETC if you'd like by using "c=EthereumClassic."
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Re: ETH and ETC still offline

by leecher4200 · · Post #26832

Steve Sokolowski wrote:
leecher4200 wrote: That's great news! I've reconnected to the Ethash pool, but it's still mining Expanse and not ETC?
It may be that Expanse is now more stable than ETC. ETC's price and hashrate have declined significantly since there apparently was a fight over the future of the coin.

You can force mine ETC if you'd like by using "c=EthereumClassic."
Thanks for your help.
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Re: ETH and ETC still offline

by Soggydan · · Post #26860

Steve Sokolowski wrote:
leecher4200 wrote: That's great news! I've reconnected to the Ethash pool, but it's still mining Expanse and not ETC?
It may be that Expanse is now more stable than ETC. ETC's price and hashrate have declined significantly since there apparently was a fight over the future of the coin.

You can force mine ETC if you'd like by using "c=EthereumClassic." or "a=ethash"
I was mining on Eth with no c= commands and the alogo was mining EthereumClassic. This started to fail for me last night and even with c=EthereumClassic and i can only mine Expanse with c=expanse

im using EthDcrMiner64.exe miner. is this what i should expect or what is the best option for me

getting this error when using "a=ethash,c=EthereumClassic"
ETH: Authorization failed
: {"id":2,"result":null,"error":[-2,"Authorizationfailedbecausethestaticcoin/algorithmcombinationisinerror.",null]}
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Re: ETH and ETC still offline

by Steve Sokolowski · · Post #26864

ryguy wrote: Looks like ETC is currently in error as well based on the live coin statuses, so that would explain your error Soggydan.
ETC is constantly going into and out of error because of a contract that got hacked, and then there was a dispute between two rival factions as to whether to revert the blockchain or not. The exchanges seem to be unwilling to declare one of the coins the canonical chain.