Ethereum EIP-1559 improvement suggestion made available in the Ropsen Testnet

The controversial improvement proposal from Ethereum 1559 (EIP-1559) will be published during the upcoming London Hardfork.

According to an announcement by Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko, the London hard fork upgrade was successfully activated in the Ropsten test network.

After the recent Berlin upgrade, the London hard fork of Ethereum is supposed to solve the problems of network congestion and high transaction fees. This led to many concerns and criticisms about its scalability and performance.

We have a block!

“We have a block! It took a little longer than expected, but London is working on Ropsten, ”Beiko said adding that he is “very excited to be filing the very first 1559-style transaction on the Ethereum public network”.

Beiko notes that blocks are a little slow at first because the miners didn’t upgrade:

“Since mining on Ropsten is not profitable (block rewards have no value), it is difficult to upgrade in time.”

After Ropsten, the update will be rolled out on June 30th on the Goerli test network and finally on Rinkeby – which will be updated on July 7th.

Controversial EIP-1559

The London Hardfork is one of the latest network upgrades that accelerates the migration from Ethereum to Ethereum 2.0 and implements the Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559.

“This EIP proposal would introduce a base charge that is adjusted up and down by the protocol based on the congestion on the network. If the network exceeds the target gas consumption per block, the basic charge increases slightly; if the target gas consumption falls below the target, it decreases slightly. Because these basic fee changes are limited, the maximum difference in basic fees between blocks is predictable. “

In the past, Ethereum has valued transaction fees using a “first price auction” model, and to remedy inefficiencies, the above controversial innovation would enable a dynamic fee structure and burn off recurring fees.

A Twitter user named Cobie tweet:

“Watch how EIP1559 ETH burns on Ropsten. 800 ETH have been burned since their activation on June 23rd. Very soft.”

So with the new fee system, miners can only keep priority fees as the base fee is always burned (destroyed by the protocol) while ensuring that ETH is only used for transactions on the platform.

This will largely reduce the risk of miner value being extracted and offset Ethereum inflation.

The timing of the London hard fork will be an important day for Ethereum as it is another leap from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus.

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