Why Google Data Scientists Are Interested in Ethereum Classic

Junior said OriginalMy earned $60,000 from such clients in 2018 and is currently participating in the first Ethereum Classic Labs startup accelerator program in San Francisco, which concludes with a demo day in April 2019.

Khoury is already using BigQuery to map out ETC ownership distribution beyond exchanges and the two millionaires who helped grow the ethereum spinoff, ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson and Digital Currency Group founder Barry Silbert.

Now that Khoury said people can search for ETC blockchain data across all of Google Cloud's BigQuery products - and that hopefully, less-crypto-savvy technologists will experiment on their own as well.

Despite its nascent user base, this Google support comes at a fortuitous time for the ETC community.

ETC Labs, funded by the parent company Digital Finance Group, invested $100,000 in six of the projects participating in the inaugural class of the accelerator program.

If the current ETC Labs accelerator goes well, there may soon be other ETC-centric startups with enough user traction to warrant additional invitations for like-minded projects.

ETC Labs director Elizabeth Kukka told CoinDesk the accelerator's first batch teams of range from pre-seed projects to full-fledged startups seeking Series A rounds.

The Ethereum Foundation itself, headed by ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, has been known to donate to the ETC cooperative, promoting synergy between these ecosystems.

As ETC Labs marketing director Dean Pappas put it, the lab aims to join the blockchain research startup IOHK, which is headed by ethereum classic co-founder Hoskinson, as an institutional partner for the community.

The lab now employs roughly nine developers focusing on the ETC blockchain, comparable to the way bitcoin-centric firms like Chaincode Labs and Blockstream devote developer resources to purely open-source work.