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> Still have seen zero compelling responses to David Hoffman’s critiques of ETH’s nonexistent value accrual mechanism.
Fees are currently tiny because the network's capacity has increased faster than demand. This is just temporary, and to be honest I struggle to believe that Hoffman doesn't understand that.
The transaction fee is primarily a tool to reduce congestion, when there isn't enough 'space' for all the transactions being submitted then the base fee automatically increases to disincentivize low value transactions, reducing the network load. If there is plenty of 'space' available then the base fee drops to a minimal amount so that the highest number of users can afford to use the chain.
> Get angrier. Demand protocol level changes that optimize for ETH value.
Getting angry about the current burn rate is like getting angry at your government for building more infrastructure to futureproof the transport links or water supply or whatever.
> This whole thing goes to shit if number doesn’t go up.
Demand for blockspace has never stopped increasing and we know that as more and more of tradfi builds on Ethereum this trend will continue. Larry Fink was talking at Davos this year about bringing the entire financial system onto 'one common blockchain' and has since then Blackrock have announced two more RWA tokenization projects, built on Ethereum L1.
At some point the demand for gas will again exceed the capacity and the network will again burn lots of ETH through increased base fees. The asset will again become deflationary, and the concern trolls will switch again to complaining that fees are too high.

As someone new to ETH...when is this going to happen? lol

I've just read that read that ETH wants to get private. What does it really mean?

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I'm thinking about trying [fortisx.fi](http://fortisx.fi) but why is the APY% so high? Like for SOL it's \~22.05%, BTC is \~17.5%, and ETH is \~20.28%. What's the catch, other than Defi hacks and such? Seems like a no-brainer otherwise.

Hey everyone, I've been running a solo validator for about 8 months now and wanted to share some concrete details from my experience post-Shanghai upgrade since it feels like the subreddit has been light on real-user staking stories lately. I started with 32 ETH on mainnet using Lighthouse + Geth on a used Dell OptiPlex with 32GB RAM and a 1TB NVMe drive, mostly because I wanted to avoid the big pools and actually control my keys. Before the upgrade withdrawals were basically impossible without full exit, but now I've been able to pull out 0.4 ETH in partial rewards last month to cover electricity and still keep the validator happy. What surprised me most was the MEV-Boost integration – I had to switch from the default relay to Flashbots after seeing my effective APR drop to 3.1% for two weeks straight; the concrete difference was an extra 0.12 ETH over 30 days once I configured the builder API correctly with mev-boost 1.6.0. Hardware-wise the Pi 4 I tried first kept crashing on sync after the Dencun changes so I migrated everything to the desktop and added a 2TB external SSD for the archive node because geth was eating 800GB+ alone. Gas fees for the withdrawal credential change were only 0.0008 ETH which felt almost too cheap compared to 2021 levels, but I still double-checked the contract address against Etherscan three times before signing. One thing I'm still puzzled about is why my attestation success rate dipped to 96% for a few days even though uptime was 99.8% – turned out to be a beacon chain checkpoint issue after a recent client update. Anyone running similar hardware seeing the same? Also curious how people are handling the new 0x01 withdrawal credentials in terms of tax tracking since the partial withdrawals create way more on-chain events than before. Would love to hear specific client configs or relay recommendations that have worked for others without getting rate-limited. Thanks in advance, this community has been super helpful with my earlier posts about testnet debugging.

Tom Lee's Ethereum Holdings are going crazy BitMine just stacked 5.54M ETH and hit 4.59% of the total supply in less than a year they’re basically about to own 5% of everything! What do you think, will they actually reach 5% soon?

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