As the discussions related to Ethereum PoW hard fork turn into a heated battle, ETC Cooperative sends an open letter to prominent miner Chandler Guo, the mastermind of the Ethereum PoW hard fork. ETC Cooperative, the organization supporting Ethereum Classic (ETC) project, strongly believes the “Ethereum PoW fork won’t work.”
ETC Cooperative Open Letter to ETHPoW Miner Chandler Guo
In an open letter to Chandler Guo, ETC Cooperative explains why they believe the Ethereum PoW hard fork would not work. Also, forking Ethereum will be the hardest thing to do now.
“At the time of the ETH/ETC chain split, supporting ETC was the simplest thing in the world to do – just keep mining. Just keep running the same client software. It was a zero-effort thing to do. The hard coordination work was all on the pro-fork side.”
In order to fork Ethereum, Chandler Guo and his team need to fork Geth, Erigon, Besu, and Nethermind codebases. Thereafter, the team must remove the proof-of-stake (PoS) transition logic that Ethereum Foundation has updated over time. Only then, Chandler Guo’s team will be able to disable the difficulty bomb and update the Chain ID to provide replay protection.
Another hard thing to do is persuade mining software authors to make changes to their mining software. Unlike the client code, many mining software are closed-source, which restricts other developers to make changes.
