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Sparkpook Ethereum's largest staker goes public to prevent EIP - 1559
Smaller stakers side with Sparkpools stance
F2Pool endorces EIP-1559
Ethereum's future put at risk
Ethereum's future put at risk
Ethereum's transition has hit a rocky patch as the largest staking pools equating to 50% of Hash power battle it out over the EIP-1559 proposal which was Ethereum's attempt to bring mining fees down.
In summary Ethereum's EIP-1559 removed mining fees by implementing a burn on transaction fees which would be used to reward stakers for securing the network.
But with mining revenue reaching $US600 million in the month of February Source alone many are moving to prevent the transition.
Sparkpool went public to gather support against EIP-1559 in a tweet that can be seen Here in a move that saw a number of stakers join their call. They believe the change will cost miners out and destroy Ethereum and turn investors away.
F2Pool has countered in an article and endorsed the transition which can be read Here
Price Impact
The broader community has spoke and mining fees are a concern to many ERC20 users and investors which are also limiting new projects. As factions emerge surrounding the future of Ethereum it will no doubt have damaging impacts on Ethereums price.
We've already seen investors flock to Binance to escape fees and Polkadot continues to draw in larger trading volumes daily with the latest Ethereum fee boom seeing hordes of investors dump Ethereum.
Opinion
My opinion is that if Sparkpool Ethereums largest staker is successful in fighting off the EIP-1559 which was developed by Ethereum's creator Vitalik Buterin to transition the network and provide market stability then Ethereum is as good as gone.
What are your thoughts?