Alex Tsankov talks to Donald McIntyre about the SHA 3 Classic Coalition which is a group of ETC engineers and participants implementing an integration, testnet, and eventual deployment to change the Ethereum Classic mining algorithm. The topics we spoke about were: 1. What is Alex Tsankov's background and expertise? - Works at Bloomberg - Studied computer science and philosophy 2. What was the antecedent and motivation to start the SHA 3 Classic Coalition? - Historic 51% attacks on ETC - For ETC to be the leader in the SHA 3 based mining algorithm 3. What is the position of the other developer teams in ETC? - ETC Cooperative - Hyperledger Besu client - IOHK - Mantis client - ETC Labs - Core Geth client 4. What is the position of other constituents? - Exchanges - Node operators - Miners - Mining Pools 5. What are the next steps to implement SHA 3 on ETC? - Integrate it in Hyperledger Besu - Create a testnet for anyone to test it - Invite the Mantis and Core Geth client teams to join the testnet - Once it is safe and tested, to set a future block number to upgrade ETC - Communicate and coordinate with miners, exchanges, node operators, and mining pools