Ethereum Classic is not Ethereum so a merge-fueled rally won't last: Messari

08/03 23:41

In a new report crypto data and analysis firm Messari’s senior research analyst Tom Dunleavy said Ethereum Classic has little long-term viability. While the price of ETC may surge in the days leading up to the Merge, the token is unlikely to experience sustained growth. Ethereum mining currently makes up 97% of graphics processing unit (GPU) mining revenue and has a daily revenue of $24 million, according to Messari. After the Merge, users will be able to validate transactions by “staking” ETH rather than executing energy-intensive computations, rendering Ethereum-based mining tools nearly obsolete. Miners will be forced to either sell their equipment or switch to mining ETC, which currently makes up 2% of GPU mining revenue and nets about $700,000 in daily revenue, according to Messari. This significant gap in profitability means that even if a “meaningful portion” of miners migrate to ETC, mining difficulty will increase drastically and render many miners unprofitable. Messari wrote that ETC has a history of price spikes when it shows up in crypto headlines, so its current surge is not representative of the network’s long-term growth. According to Messari, Ethereum Classic has less than half the number of active addresses as Cardano. The network’s current level of development is less than one-tenth of Ethereum and Cardano and has not had a meaningful change in transaction volume since 2018. “At the end of the day, prices should have some fundamental linkage to network usage and underlying economic activity,” Messari wrote. “Unfortunately for ETC holders, there isn’t much of either.”
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