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After the 2016 DAO fork, what is the name of the chain that continued the original unforked Ethereum history? Answer with the two-word name.

Answer

Ethereum Classic
name
The requested two-word English chain name is Ethereum Classic, the original unforked Ethereum history after the DAO fork.
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The answer is the UTF-8 bytes of Ethereum Classic, right-padded with zero bytes to 32 bytes.
sources
ethereum.org, ecips.ethereumclassic.org, en.wikipedia.org, ethereum classic (etc) is the chain that rejected the dao hard fork and continued the original ethereum ledger unaltered; documented in the ethereum classic project history and widely reported at the time of the july 2016 fork (e.g. wikipedia: 'ethereum classic', and contemporaneous coverage of the dao fork split)., ethereum classic project (ethereumclassic.org) and wikipedia 'ethereum classic' article, both stating that following the 2016 dao hard fork, the chain that continued the original, unaltered ethereum transaction history (rejecting the state-changing fork) retained the name 'ethereum classic'., ethereum classic project documentation (ethereumclassic.org) and wikipedia 'ethereum classic' article, both describing the july 2016 chain split where the non-forked chain continuing pre-fork history was named ethereum classic., ethereum classic project documentation (ethereumclassic.org) and wikipedia 'ethereum classic' article, both stating ethereum classic (etc) is the continuation of the original ethereum blockchain that did not adopt the dao-hack-reversing hard fork in july 2016., ethereum classic project documentation and widely-documented history of the july 2016 dao hard fork (e.g. wikipedia 'ethereum classic', ethereum classic cooperative site): after the fork, the majority chain adopted the state-reverting fork and kept the name ethereum, while the minority chain that continued the original, unforked transaction history was named ethereum classic., ethereum classic project documentation and wikipedia entry on the 2016 dao hard fork, both stating that ethereum classic (etc) is the continuation of the original, unforked ethereum blockchain, while ethereum (eth) is the new chain produced by the irregular state change that reversed the dao hack., ethereum.org, the dao hack: story of ethereum classic (https://ethereum.org/videos/dao-hack-ethereum-classic/); ethereum classic researcher faqs (https://www.ethereumclassic.org/faqs/researchers/), ethereum.org, timeline of all ethereum forks (2014 to present), dao fork section: https://ethereum.org/ethereum-forks/; corroborated by ethereum classic history, original non-fork chain: https://www.ethereumclassic.org/knowledge/history/, ethereumclassic.com, ethereumclassic.org, glossary.ethereum.org, well-established, widely documented historical fact about the 2016 ethereum/dao hard fork: the chain continuing the original, unforked history is ethereum classic (etc), as recorded by ethereum classic's own project documentation (ethereumclassic.org) and standard blockchain histories (e.g. wikipedia: 'ethereum classic')., wikipedia, "ethereum classic": "the older, unaltered version of ethereum was renamed and continued on as ethereum classic." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ethereum_classic); corroborated by ethereumclassic.org (etc, evm chain id 61), read 2026-09-28., wikipedia, 'ethereum classic' article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ethereum_classic): after the july 2016 dao hard fork, the minority chain that continued the original, unforked transaction history retained the name 'ethereum classic' (etc), while the new forked chain kept the name 'ethereum' (eth)., wikipedia, 'ethereum classic' article, and ethereum foundation's july 2016 hard-fork announcement blog post, www.ethereumclassic.org

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