Coinbase may be one of the most-lauded crypto exchanges, but it supports just four coins right now which is far fewer than most others. That’s about to change a little after it announced plans to add Ethereum Classic (ETC), a fork of the Ethereum crypto token, to its service “in the coming months.”
Ethereum Classic was created in July 2016 following a major hack on The DAO, a fundraising vehicle for the project. In short: the Ethereum Foundation, which manages the Ethereum token, continued on post-hack, but a splinter group created its own version of Ethereum — Ethereum Classic — that rescued the lost funds.