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Ethereum Classic and the Stubborn Virtue of Not Forking There is a peculiar sort of asset that survives less because it grows and more because it refuses to disappear, and Ethereum Classic has spent the better part of a decade inhabiting that category.
It is the chain that did not bend after the 2016 DAO incident, the one that kept its ledger intact when its larger sibling chose to rewrite history in the name of investor relief.
Almost ten years on, the price discussion around ETC for the 2026 to 2030 window cannot really be untangled from that founding act of refusal. The thesis was never about the next breakout.
It was about whether immutability, taken as a serious commitment rather than a marketing slogan, still has a buyer.
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