What is Ethereum Classic?

Ethereum Classic was produced by a fork of the original Ethereum blockchain. Like many other blockchain forks, ETC was created following an ideological and technical divide within the community. After the fork, the resulting ETC and ETH blockchains included identical past blocks, but they diverged going forward.

Is Ethereum benefiting from Ethereum's upcoming merge?

The cryptocurrency looks to be benefiting from Ethereum's upcoming Merge. Ethereum Classic is the original version of Ethereum and forked from what is now Ethereum after a big hack on the network in 2016. Concerns raised by the hack resulted in the fork, but some people still wanted to use the original blockchain now known as Ethereum Classic.

What happened to Ethereum Classic after the hard-fork?

After the hard-fork, the blockchains were split in two and act individually. Ethereum Classic still offers the same features as Ethereum, such as the creation and deployment of smart contract and Decentralized applications, and has all the same specifications, such as average block time, size and reward.

What is the original Ethereum blockchain?

Ethereum Classic is the original Ethereum blockchain, and it might now get the support of all of the Ethereum PoW miners, so there could be further upside ahead if all of the Ethereum PoW miners continue to rally around the network and sustain the momentum.