Centralized/managed blockchains are 1,000,000x more expensive to maintain, Ethereum Classic (ETC) developer Igor Artamonov noted. Aratamonov also wrote that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin had calculated the prohibitively high costs associated with managing permissioned blockchains. As the original Ethereum chain, Ethereum Classic developers believe firmly in the immutability and decentralization of blockchains.
