July 20, 2016, at 1.92 million-th block, we - the community of independent people - united with a common purpose to continue the original blokcheyn Ethereum, which will be really free from censorship, fraud and interference by third parties. Realizing that blokcheyn is the absolute truth, we are on his side, supporting him and the immutability of his future. We take our statement seriously and do it with full awareness of the consequences of our actions.
Looking back
It should be noted that we are grateful Ethereum Foundation and founded its developers for the creation of blokcheyna Ethereum. Undoubtedly, without the heavy and selfless work we as a community, would never have become what we are today.
Since its inception blokcheyn Ethereum positioned as a decentralized platform for "applications that operate without any risk of fraud, censorship or intervention of third parties." He has provided a place for the free association of ideas and applications from around the world without fear of discrimination, while at the same time pseudonymity. Many of us see the hope in this decentralized platform.
Our claim
Unfortunately, as a result of a long series of abuses that occurred under the leadership of Ethereum Foundation, we had to unite to protect the Ethereum blokcheyna from its own founders. Our discontent is as follows.
-In The hasty implementation of the "soft-fork", which consisted of changes in the code blokcheyna Ethereum, whose sole purpose was to create a black list and censorship of the transaction, which would otherwise be allowed.
-In The consequences of neglecting "soft-fork" for blokcheyna Ethereum, despite the fact that they violate the principles and values enshrined in the Ethereum.
-In Creating non-representational voting mechanism called "carbon vote", which they originally announced "unofficial" and that is the day before the hard-fork was suddenly declared binding.
-In The hasty conduct "hard-fork", which consisted of a change in the code blokcheyna Ethereum, violates the principle of immutability, interoperability and security of digital books.
-In Making unauthorized decisions do not include protection against attacks repetition in "hard-Fork", which led to losses for thousands of exchanges and the rightful owner of tokens Ethereum.
While respecting the principles Blokcheyna
What harm can be from code changes to blokcheyne Ethereum with the aim to gain investors DAO, you ask? This question sounds reasonable. Many of us have an innate sense of justice, so that at first glance seems to be the salvation of DAO noble goal. Nevertheless, it has violated the two key aspects that underlie the systems P2P networks and smart-transaction contracts: interchangeability and immutability.
The invariance means that blokcheyn inviolable. What network are only accepted actual transactions, confirmed the cryptographic protocol with the help of mathematics. Without this proof of all transactions can be called into question, because if you can make changes to blokcheyn, then any transaction, you can also change. This not only reveals the vulnerability of transactions before fraudsters, but also can cause catastrophic consequences for any distributed application running on the platform.
Interchangeability is a property of money when one unit is equal to one another. For example, one euro is always another euro, as well as one equal to another bitcoin Bitcoin. Unfortunately, ETH no longer equal to another ETH. ETH alleged attacker were impaired and are subject to censorship by the initiative of the so-called majority.
Ultimately it is a violation of the principles of immutability and interchangeability made possible because of the subjective judgments of morality on the part of those who wish fervently to restore justice to the attacker. They compromised one of the fundamental pillars of the Ethereum, acting in the interests of what they considered "the greater good". In a world where everyone has their own laws, customs and faith, who can say what is good and what is evil?
Deeply concerned about the fact that these basic principles have been ignored by most developers Ethereum Foundation, we organized a community and formed a set of principles blokcheyna Ethereum Classic.
Body of Principles Ethereum Classic
We believe in a decentralized, censorship-resistant, outdoor blokcheyn. We believe in the original vision of the world as the Ethereum computer that can not be turned off by performing irreversible smart contracts. We believe that the forks of the system is only possible to fix vulnerabilities at the protocol level, eliminating bugs or improvements to functionality. We believe in the original purpose to create and maintain a stable censorship, reliable and unchanging platform.
Here we present a set of values to which community members agree Ethereum Classic. We urge that these values are not changed by the Edict of any person or group of persons, no matter what power, authority or trust, they do not possess.
We, as a community, agree that:
An entire Ethereum Classic is the provision of a decentralized platform to run distributed applications that work the way they were programmed, without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or intervention by third parties.
-code - It is the law; Ethereum Classic in code no changes will be made in violation of invariance properties, interchangeability or the integrity of the digital book; transaction and log changes in any case can not be canceled or changed.
-Forki And / or other changes in blokcheyna protocol can be implemented only with a view to updating or improving the technologies on which runs Ethereum Classic.
-Internal development project can be financed by any person through selected by a third party, either directly using any selected their currency and following a transparent, open and decentralized kraudfandingovomu protocol.
-Any Person or group of persons can suggest improvements, improvements or updates to existing or proposed Ethereum Classic assets.
-Any Person or group of persons may use a decentralized platform Ethereum Classic to create decentralized applications of kraudseylov, creating autonomous organizations / corporations or for any other purpose they deem appropriate.
Looking to the future
According to the above reasons, we have decided to rename the original blokcheyn in "Ethereum Classic" with a symbol of "ETC", so that the community and any other market participants can easily identify the original, undistorted, and rock-solid blokcheyn platform.
We are sincerely grateful to the developers (as of Ethereum Foundation, and on the side), which opposed the intervention and blokcheyn Ethereum Ethereum have retained the ability to work the Classic chain. We know that you have a lot, and we are always happy to take you into the ranks of our decentralized community.
We will continue to promote their vision of decentralized management Ethereum Classic and oppose any attempts blokcheynom centralized management, especially by Ethereum Foundation and developers who have repeatedly said that will no longer work on blokcheynom Ethereum Classic.
We will speak out against the "tyranny of the majority" and will not allow values to put the system in jeopardy. We as a community will continue to be united in order to ensure the protection and promotion necessary for the successful continuation of this great experiment. Platform Ethereum Classic, its code and the technology is now open for all the world like software with open source. All this is now available for free to anyone who wants to improve Ethereum Classic and create on its basis of their applications. It's really easy and reliable global computer antihrupkost which we as a community have proven and continue to prove.
