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By Dan Saada
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Evan Van Ness points to how EIP1559 is happening in a matter of weeks. He lists the non-pecuniary 1559 benefits for Ethereum.
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“BENEFIT NUMBER 1: UX. EIP1559 was written by Vitalik 3 years ago and then eric.eth picked it up and pushed it hard because Eric was frustrated with how he couldn't get friends…
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BENEFIT NUMBER 2: Predictable transactions fees and new BASEFEE op code will help rollups. This is a corollary of #1, but is so important that it deserves to be #2.
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BENEFIT NUMBER 3: Security. This seems to be the one that everyone overlooks, but 1559 is an important *security* upgrade.
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BENEFIT NUMBER 4: 1559 breaks economic abstraction. This will incentivize layer2 adoption Right now mining pools include their payouts to miners at ~zero gas price.
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BENEFIT NUMBER 5: Less incentive for short-term re-orgs. This takes some explanation, but front running transactions by miners can create some adverse incentives for chain…
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In fact, burning ETH was simply a necessary way to make 1559 work. And 1559 is a clearly better tx inclusion mechanism than our current first price auction.
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