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- Vitalik shares an update on the upcoming EIP-4844 Dencun Upgrade and promises significant gas fee reductions.
- Vitalik responds to Twitter user T.Rowe’s plea for lower gas fees with upcoming hard fork solution.
- Rollups and EIP-4844 aim to enhance Ethereum scalability, potentially making it more competitive.
Vitalik Buterin the co-founder of Ethereum took to X platform to respond to a crypto community member asking him to “concentrate” on lowering the gas fees. Vitalik shared a screenshot that stated that the hard fork in the upcoming 3 days will help reduce the gas fees.
The crypto community member is a lawyer in the cryptocurrency space and goes by the username of T.Rowe on X.
The big hard fork that will help a lot with that is coming in three days. pic.twitter.com/u00MsaeI6W— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) March 10, 2024
The feud started earlier on Sunday, March 10th when Vitalik tweeted “Abolish daylight savings time”. The crypto lawyer responded to Vitalik’s tweet by asking him to reduce the gas fees so much that it is feasible to buy $50 worth of [expletive] coins without spending a “$200 gas fee”.
In response to the user’s request to concentrate on lowering the gas fee, Vitalik points him to the upcoming EIP-4844, Dencun Upgrade. EIP-4844 is a “big hard fork” that will adopt proto-dank sharding and become scalable and affordable throughout the whole ecosystem.
Rollups are seen as a way to improve the scalability of Ethereum by moving some transactions off of the main Ethereum blockchain. EIP-4844 is expected to bring down gas fees by orders of magnitude, which could make Ethereum more competitive with other blockchains.
Last week Ethereum (ETH) crossed $3,000 and surged to $3,800, marking its highest value in nearly two years. Michael Van Pope, another famous crypto analyst, took to X speculating that one of the two key factors behind this surge is the upcoming Dencun upgrade.
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