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Topic: What is the implication of the recent reduction in Ethereum block reward? (Read 142 times)

newbie
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I will take it this way that due to lower mining reward, mining sellers will reduce so the selling pressure on eth will reduce this is going to increase the price, expect growth in coming  weeks, im very bullish now about eth, i think it can surprise us towards the end of this year.

I am really not sure that this is a bullish signal for the value of ETH. As we can see, ETH is currently experiencing the lowest of its lows in recent times. Is it not possible that this could be a cause and effect action of the block reward reduction?
newbie
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Following the recent reduction of the Ethereum block reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH.
What is its implication to the Ethereum network and Crypto market in general.

The reward it is a kind of marginal gain that the miner have to support the network, reducing it involves a slight change in the economy of the miner that would see in the increase of the value of eth a possible solution.


Since we think the block reduction reward could cause an increase in the price of ETH while ETH is currently experiencing an all time low in over a year. Could it not be that this decision is the reason why the price of ETH is tanking low?
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RiveMont
I will take it this way that due to lower mining reward, mining sellers will reduce so the selling pressure on eth will reduce this is going to increase the price, expect growth in coming  weeks, im very bullish now about eth, i think it can surprise us towards the end of this year.
full member
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Following the recent reduction of the Ethereum block reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH.
What is its implication to the Ethereum network and Crypto market in general.

The reward it is a kind of marginal gain that the miner have to support the network, reducing it involves a slight change in the economy of the miner that would see in the increase of the value of eth a possible solution.
legendary
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Following the recent reduction of the Ethereum block reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH.
What is its implication to the Ethereum network and Crypto market in general.

 It costs more to mine.


Since it will costs more to mine, how would it affect transaction costs on the ethereum network. Will it also costs more?

 Hard to say.  The Antminer E3 made it cheaper to mine ETH but might cause some centralization since that combined with the block reward reduction will make GPU mining obsolete and Bitmain would love to make more money to offset their BitCH bags.

it is already moving towards centralization of mining. a lot of coins can be mined with ETH ASIC so there soon will be big mining farms that will switch in case ETH died or they flipped the PoS switch!!! but meanwhile they will make money by taking the whole ETH network in their palm.

as for the cost of transactions they are already high every now and then that ETH network becomes congested again it has nothing to do with cost of mining.
legendary
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Following the recent reduction of the Ethereum block reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH.
What is its implication to the Ethereum network and Crypto market in general.

 It costs more to mine.


Since it will costs more to mine, how would it affect transaction costs on the ethereum network. Will it also costs more?

 Hard to say.  The Antminer E3 made it cheaper to mine ETH but might cause some centralization since that combined with the block reward reduction will make GPU mining obsolete and Bitmain would love to make more money to offset their BitCH bags.
newbie
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The implication is that eth better fix its scaling issues soon or else newer smart contract platforms will make huge gains against eth.

I still do 100% believe in eth, but things like plasma cash and switching to proof of stake are seriously taking too long.
Granted, it is the world's biggest blockchain ecosystem, but how long have we been talking about PoS now?

The thing is, when you expand the scope to 10, 20 years down the line and think global, then switching to PoS is only a temporary fix.
As amazing as the blockchain is, having a distributed, open source ledger scattered across the world consumes a ridiculous amount of energy.
The more implementation it sees, the more the cost of just running the damn thing skyrockets.

What I really want to see is one of the dag projects incoporate smart contract technology.
If the worlds of nano, iota, byteball etc. can be combined with eth, neo, and ada, then we are really looking at gigantic game changer.

BICA !!!!
This is very possible. I see some of these projects coming together consolidating on each others' strength. I am however not certain ETH could be displaced.
newbie
Activity: 182
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Following the recent reduction of the Ethereum block reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH.
What is its implication to the Ethereum network and Crypto market in general.

 It costs more to mine.


Since it will costs more to mine, how would it affect transaction costs on the ethereum network. Will it also costs more?
full member
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Merit: 131
The implication is that eth better fix its scaling issues soon or else newer smart contract platforms will make huge gains against eth.

I still do 100% believe in eth, but things like plasma cash and switching to proof of stake are seriously taking too long.
Granted, it is the world's biggest blockchain ecosystem, but how long have we been talking about PoS now?

The thing is, when you expand the scope to 10, 20 years down the line and think global, then switching to PoS is only a temporary fix.
As amazing as the blockchain is, having a distributed, open source ledger scattered across the world consumes a ridiculous amount of energy.
The more implementation it sees, the more the cost of just running the damn thing skyrockets.

What I really want to see is one of the dag projects incoporate smart contract technology.
If the worlds of nano, iota, byteball etc. can be combined with eth, neo, and ada, then we are really looking at gigantic game changer.
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 7912
Following the recent reduction of the Ethereum block reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH.
What is its implication to the Ethereum network and Crypto market in general.

 It costs more to mine.
newbie
Activity: 182
Merit: 0
Following the recent reduction of the Ethereum block reward from 3 ETH to 2 ETH.
What is its implication to the Ethereum network and Crypto market in general.
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