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ETC Hashrate and Price Spike Massively in Last 24 Hours, Here's Why

Thu, 09/15/2022 - 10:41
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Arman Shirinyan
Ethereum Classic sees unprecedented hashrate increase after the Merge goes live
ETC Hashrate and Price Spike Massively in Last 24 Hours, Here's Why
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One of the biggest alternatives to Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, saw a massive spike in the hashrate on the day that PoW on Ethereum became obsolete. Obviously, the main reason behind it is the massive migration of miners to alternative networks.

0.2% of world's electricity consumption

While it may seem like cryptocurrency mining is not playing a large part in the world's energy consumption, if we take the amount of energy Ethereum miners used back when PoW was active, we could have easily satisfied the electricity demands of a small country like Chile for a whole year.

ETC hasrate
Source: 2 Miners

Since December, the estimated energy consumption of the network has reached 103 TWh per year, which is around 0.2% of the whole world's energy consumption. The Merge update makes Ethereum significantly "greener," but the hashrate of the network will not disappear. Rather, it will move toward alternative networks like Ethereum Classic or Ravencoin.

In only 24 hours, Ethereum Classic saw a massive 100% spike in the hashrate on the network, with the hashrate rallying from around 100 TH/s to 200 TH/s in no time. In the next few days, we will most likely see a gradual increase in the mining power on networks like Ravencoin, Ethereum Classic and ETHPOW, the three main heirs of Ethereum's hashrate.

Market performance of ETC

Despite the rapid increase in the number of miners on the network, the price of Ethereum Classic seems to be following the sentiment of investors, which changed drastically after the unexpectedly high inflation data release.

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Arman Shirinyan is a trader, crypto enthusiast and SMM expert with more than four years of experience.

Arman strongly believes that cryptocurrencies and the blockchain will be of constant use in the future. Currently, he focuses on news, articles with deep analysis of crypto projects and technical analysis of cryptocurrency trading pairs.