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Mordor Testnet Launch
Afri Schoedon
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State of the Ethereum Classic Testnets Summary
There are a massive number of Ethereum Classic testnets.
- --morden
- 2015 Genesis with Ethereum
- Ethash Proof-of-Work
- 2016 issues with Starting Nonce
2**20 - 2017 Ethereum Foundation abandoned it
- 2017 Morden Classic
- not supported by Multi-Geth
- --kotti
- 2018 Genesis
- Clique Proof-of-Authority
- Görli Testnet Initiative
- The first Cross Client PoA network with EVM capability
- https://stats.kotti.goerli.net/
- not supported by Geth Classic
- --astor
- 2019 Genesis
- SHA3 Proof-of-Work
- No client support
- Experimental testnet
- --kensington
- 2019 Genesis
- Ethash Proof-of-Work
- Görli Testnet Initiative & ChainSafe
- Ad-Hoc testing of
Atlantis - Morden - Starting Nonce = Kensington
- All-clients support
- --nazgul
- 2019 Genesis
- Ethash Proof-of-Work
- Görli Testnet Initiative & Whiteblock
- Stress-testing of
Atlantis - Temporary testnet
Remove ETC Testnet Redundancies
--mordor
- 2019 Genesis
- Ethash Proof-of-Work
- Replaces Morden, Kensington, Nazgul
- Supported by all clients
- No Premine, No Presale, Fair launch!
