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Story: Ethereum (ETH) About Scale and Cost Community Can’t Wait For Cheap Gas

By Steven Anderson

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Of the myriad of improvements expected with the coming of the Proof-of-Stakes in the forthcoming months, it is expected that no more will there be a need for a country’s worth.

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By conservative calculations per carlbeek.eth blog:  “Ethereum will see a greater than ~99.95% reduction in energy use post merge.”

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With the Beacon Chain running for months now, analysts were able to dig in to reliable numbers.

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For those who are interested, it is worth checking the Ethereum blog: “A country's worth of power, no more!”

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The blog concludes with a looking forward statement which goes like:  “While Ethereum continues to use PoW for now, that won’t be the case for much longer.

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Scaling solutions (such as rollups and sharding) will help further decrease the energy consumed per-transaction by leveraging economies of scale.

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Some of the users were excited and they state:  It's all about scale and cost.  Can’t wait for that cheap gas.

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Regarding the price, some were worried that the ETH price is dropping.  Someone shouted out to Elon Musk stating “99.5% reduction in energy use.

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Some were like:  PS: Stop tagging Elon Musk. He is a business man who likes complicated challenges. That's it. Ethereum doesn't need his approval.

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However, some of them were left wondering stating, how do u know this, Ethereum didn’t tweet anything about energy reduction?

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In response to the blog, one of the users stated, this is great work and a good article, but I find the title a bit confusing.

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