Buterin Urges Store-of-Value Focus for ETH, Not Fee Burns
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Key points
- Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has suggested focusing on Ether's store-of-value properties rather than relying heavily on transaction fee burns.
- While supporting the retention of EIP-1559, Buterin cautioned that prioritizing fee maximization risks pricing out everyday users from the network and ultimately harming decentralization, which remains a core pillar of the blockchain ecosystem.
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- The DefiantButerin Urges Store-of-Value Focus for ETH, Not Fee Burns · 17 minutes agoRead on The Defiant
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