ETC · pure PoW emission, 20% reward cut lands mid-window.
Pure PoW emission against an empty buy ledger — but the next 90 days carry a structural twist: the protocol's 5M-block reward cut fires mid-window, knocking ~20% off the daily emission rate from ~July 21, 2026. Last 90D ~1.29M ETC; next 90D piecewise ~1.18M. No vesting, no Foundation row (ECIP-1098 Proto Treasury was rolled back).
Era 5 emission: 2.048 ETC/block × ~6,646 blocks/day at the ~13.1s target. The Era 6 transition at block 1,050,000... actually block 25,000,000 lands ~July 21, 2026 INSIDE the next-90D window: emission drops 20% to 1.6384 ETC/block. Piecewise projection: ~54 days pre-transition + ~36 days post-transition → ~1.18M / 90D. Uncle inclusion adds ~6.5% empirical uplift.
ETC inherited the pre-2016 Ethereum state at the DAO-fork split (July 20, 2016). No separate ETC pre-mine; no team or investor vesting schedule exists.
No protocol-level coinbase tax to any entity. ECIP-1098 (Proto Treasury) was proposed and rolled back. The ETC Cooperative is donation-funded and holds NO protocol-allocated reserve. Same shape as DOGE / BCH.
No active ETC bankruptcy estate. Pure PoW (Etchash) — no native staking, no lockup vault.
No buyback mechanism exists.
ETC explicitly rejected EIP-1559 in its hard-fork sequence. All transaction fees go to miners.
ETC Cooperative is donation-funded — no protocol-allocated reserve to deploy as a buy programme.
Pure PoW (Etchash). No native staking, no lockup programme.
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