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Vitalik Buterin Calls For Ethereum Transaction Fee Reform as Gas Costs Surge

Nick Chong by Nick Chong
2 years ago
in Ethereum
Reading Time: 3 mins read
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While Ethereum’s recent uptick in adoption has been welcomed by many, it has had a strong side effect: rapidly increasing transaction costs.

According to Glassnode, a blockchain data upstart, the daily median gas price has increased by “more than 5x” since April. The gas price has now reached 50 Gwei, a nearly two-year high.

#Ethereum gas prices continue to rise.

The daily median gas price has increased by more than 5x since April, surpassing 50 Gwei yesterday for the first time in almost 2 years.

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This means that sending a simple transfer of ETH costs almost $0.30. 30 cents may not seem like a lot, but it is worth realizing that DeFi transactions can cost an order of magnitude or two more gas than simple transfers.

This situation in Ethereum’s transaction fee market has been met with calls for solutions from some of the cryptocurrency’s biggest proponents.

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Ethereum Founder Calls For Transaction Fee Reform

According to Etherscan data shared by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, “transaction fee revenue is now nearing half as high as block reward revenue.” This means that nearly one-third of all rewards ETH miners receive are from transaction fees.

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Transaction fee revenue is now nearing half as high as block reward revenue. This actually risks making ethereum *less* secure because of https://t.co/Dase8SL30z. Fee market reform (ie. EIP 1559) fixes this; another reason why that EIP is important. pic.twitter.com/eqU3tAMh67

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) July 21, 2020

Citing a paper from Princeton University researchers, Buterin remarked that this actually “risks making ethereum *less* secure.”

Fee market reform “fixes this” issue, the prominent cryptocurrency pioneer added.

To Buterin, a viable way to reform the transaction fee market is through EIP 1559.  EIP 1559 — or Ethereum Improvement Protocol 1559 — is a technical proposal authored by Buterin and others suggesting a revamp of how transaction fees are dealt with by the network. Along with burning ETH for each transaction, the system proposed will ensure there is less volatility in the transaction fee market.

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Needed Soon as Possible 

Not only are high Ethereum fees potentially making the network insecure, some analysts think that high transaction costs are threatening ETH’s hegemony.

Qiao Wang, a trader and former head of product at Messari, commented that after he spent over $10 on a transaction, he realizes a solution is essential:

“I’ve changed my mind after using a dozen of Defi platforms. So long as ETH 2.0 is not fully rolled out, there’s an obvious opportunity for a highly scalable blockchain to dethrone Ethereum. Paying $10 transaction fee and waiting 15 seconds for settlement is just bad UX.”
This sentiment has been echoed by Scott Lewis, an entrepreneur behind Ethereum-focused projects like DefiPulse and EthGasStation. He said on June 30th, when fees were even lower than they are now:
“overall the ethereum community is wayyyyy too overconfident about people paying high gas fees if reasonable alternatives exist. watching ethereum overtake bitcoin has been fun.”
This growing sentiment even amongst the network’s supporters indicates the need for a solution sooner rather than later.
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Nick Chong

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I am a writer who has been following Bitcoin for years now. My insights and interviews have been featured in leading publications in the industry such as LongHash and Decrypt. I own a small amount of Bitcoin.

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