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Miners don't want to, dare not, and can't fork Ethereum

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EIP-1559 "opposition" miners are "demonstrating" by collective computing power.

Original title: "Miners don't want, dare, and can't fork Ethereum"

Original source: ODaily Planet

For the past few months, the Ethereum community has been debating whether EIP-1559 should be implemented at all.

Finally, March 5 for the Ethereum CoredevelopersThe meeting confirmed that EIP-1559 was officially incorporated into the Ethereum "London" hard in JulyyThe upgrade. But the proposal is still met with some miners resistance, opposition.

Recently, Twitter users"Red Panda Mining"Launch a campaign calling on the miners who oppose EIP-1559 to switch their calculations to the opposition mine pool and claim sovereignty.

"For educational purposes, on April 1st let's move our computing power together tohttp://ethermine.orgAnd the time period is 51 hours."

矿工不想、不敢，也不能分叉以太坊

According to theStopeip1559 websiteAccording to the statistics, 12 large and small mine pools, including Spark, Ethermine and FlexPool, which are currently opposed to the implementation of EIP-1559, finally account for more than 60%, as shown below:

矿工不想、不敢，也不能分叉以太坊

Therefore, a lot of people worry that computing power aggregation may produce a double - flower attack, affecting the networksecurity.

During a live broadcast on March 9, YouTube became a big hit"Bits Be Trippin"The response called the rally a benevolent "show of force" and said the miners had no incentive to carry out cyberattacks.

Although the rally has been muted so far, it reflects the miners' desire to make a voice heard.

Why do miners object?

A brief introduction to the EIP-1559.

Users used to pay miners an as-needed Gas fee to transfer money on Ethereum, and miners could prioritize high-gas transactions. After the implementation of EIP-1559, the Gas handling fee will be sent to the network itself as a basefee for destruction, and users can also optionally pay miners an inclusion fee. The base fee is also determined by the algorithm in order to make it easier for the user to pay a reasonable fee.

As a result, the proposal has gained support from users and developers alike. According to Ethereum developer Tim Beiko, the top apps on Ethereum:1inch,Aave,Balancer,Curve,MakerDAO,SushiswapEIP-1559 is supported by the vast majority of applications.

Miners, however, are not thrilled by the proposal.

In the last few monthsDeFiGrowth, Gas costs skyrocketed, and half of Ethereum miners' income came from Gas costs. Once EIP-1559 is implemented, it will have a direct impact on miners' income, which is naturally not liked by miners.

The impact on income is part of it, but more importantly, miners feel they have become part of the ecology.

In the past few years, the price of Ethereum was low and the ecology did not develop. Miners stood firm to maintain network security. Now with the development of DEFI, the whole Ethereum ecosystem is thriving, and it's not acceptable to cut Gas costs and reduce miners' benefits. Also, EIP-1599 has been around beforeFilecoinIt was implemented for a while, but the results were not good enough, which made the miners feel more resentful.

As a result, the miner groups represented by Xinghuo Mine Pool have voiced their opposition to the implementation of EIP-1559. It doesn't change the outcome, but it's important to make a statement and let the Ethereum community hear the miners.

"Perhaps the current ecological achievers of Ethereum are developers, users, and a chain where ecology is king, but the voices of miners cannot be ignored." Spark mine pond business director Qiu Xiaodong said.

Will Ethereum fork?

For many people who do not know about Ethereum, the most concerned question is: Will the opposition of the miners who master the absolute computing power cause the fragmentation and bifurcation of the Ethereum community and affect the stability of Ethereum?

It's safe to say that Ethereum won't fork. Miners can't, don't want to, and don't dare.

As stated earlier, the opposition to EIP-1559 is just a matter of voice, not forking Ethereum. From the point of view, even the first calculated power of the Spark Mine Pool, did not put forward the fork proposal. Moreover, the spark also repeatedly stressed that will not cause community split.

From the development history of Ethereum, V god and other developer groups have enough appeal and influence on Ethereum, which runs in the opposite direction and is thankless.ETCwithETHAfter the parting of the ways, the current development is obvious to all. It's pretty clear whether the miner's Ethereum is more valuable after the fork, or the developer's Ethereum.

And, more to the point, the developers have also imposed restrictions on miners.

On the one hand, the developers have included the "difficulty bomb delay" in this hard fork upgrade, if the miner does not upgrade (not implement EIP-1559), the difficulty bomb will explode,As the "Ice Age" approaches, mining the Ethereum network becomes more difficult,Soon the old chain will run out of mines. This ensured that the miners would have to accept the upgrade.

Miners, on the other hand, if they fork Ethereum, Ethereum will immediately switch to POS.V God once said in the community: "If the miners attack 51%, we will all move to POS as soon as possible."

矿工不想、不敢，也不能分叉以太坊

EIP-1559 was originally intended to alleviate the Gas bill problem, but even V God himself admits that this effect is only short-term, and that the real solution lies in improving the scalability of Ethereum.

Ethereum 2.0 is a high-performance solution to the scaling problem. Although it is in the online phase zero, it is still a long way from being usable. For now, expansion solutions such as Rollup are more feasible and valuable in the short term.