Five years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on mainnet. Ethereum paved the way for a whole new use case for blockchain technology untethered from Bitcoin’s original vision as electronic cash. Not one year after the launch of Ethereum, a seminal event split the community in two. So acute was the disagreement between these two subcommunities that the row resulted in the creation of a new cryptocurrency called “Ethereum Classic,” cloned from the original Ethereum codebase. Ethereum Classic (ETC) was created July 20, 2016, after $60 million worth of ether (ETH), Ethereum’s native ... (full story)