On December 9th, IOHK Mantis engineers relaunched the newly updated Mantis client v3.2.1 "Mantis Revival." Mantis is a fully featured client and wallet UI developed from the ground up and written in Scala specifically for the ETC network.
To celebrate the relaunch IOHK created a Crowdcast event for the launch of the updated Mantis client and all new Mantis wallet. As well as an introductory keynote from IOHK's Charles Hoskinson, the Mantis development team will provide an overview and demo of brand new features & functionality, as well as taking your questions.
Make sure to check out all Mantis documentation to get started, learn how to configure, and how to use the client, wallet, and the Sagano testnet. https://docs.mantisclient.io/first-steps/getting-started
What is the Thanos ETC hard-fork?
Thanos is a hard-fork which will reduce the size and the growth rate of the DAG file. The Thanos hard-fork is specified in ECIP-1099 a proposal that increased the long term viability of GPU mining on ETC.
At current epoch (372) the DAG size is 3.91 GB. 4GB GPUs are getting obsoleted while they still make up a significant amount of ethash hashrate. Activating this change at epoch 376 (for example), would reduce the DAG size from 3.94GB to 2.47GB. With the reduced growth rate, 4GB GPUs will remain supported for an additional 3+ years.
Besu, Core-geth, and Mantis will be supporting the Thanos hard-fork. Miner users should use Core-geth because Besu and Mantis mining is not mature enough for mainnet mining yet.
