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Ethereum improvement proposal 2025 increases block reward, community opposed to maintain ETH as store-of-value
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Updated: Nov. 7, 2019 at 2:43 am UTC
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Several Ethereum developers voiced concerns about Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) 2025, which recommends creating more Ether per block for the next 18 months. Authored by James Hancock, a Berlin-based developer, the proposal suggests adding an extra 0.044 Ether per block in order to broadly fund Ethereum’s ongoing development.
Published last month, EIP-2025 was discussed briefly during a bi-weekly meeting between Ethereum’s core developers on July 18. The extra ETH generated would be used by a funding organization to allocate capital toward Ethereum’s development, said the proposal.
EIP-2025 is “absolutely absurd”
According to Ethereum developer Eric Conner, the suggestions made in EIP-2025 are “absolutely absurd.” Conner estimated that an extra 136,400 ETH ($28.6 million at current prices) would be generated if the proposal was approved.
Reading through the latest Ethereum Core Dev call notes and it appears that EIP-2025 is being seriously considered as an EIP for Istanbul.
EIP-2025 adds 0.044 ETH per block for 3,100,000 blocks to go to a dev fund. That’s 136,400 ETH.
Absolutely absurd! This cannot happen.
— Eric Conner (@econoar) July 22, 2019
Anthony Sassano, the co-founder of EthHub, an informational resource for blockchain development, clarified that he supports initiatives that involve funding Ethereum’s development. However, he suggested alternative funding options outside of increasing the block reward.
I am (obviously) not against funding important development work on Ethereum but I oppose EIP-2025.
Here are some alternative funding options:
-DAOs (@MolochDAO, @meta_cartel)
–@gitcoin grants
–@econoar's pooled DAI idea
–@ethereum foundation grants https://t.co/mbHfy7NGuq— Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) July 22, 2019
Increasing block rewards would weaken Ether as a store-of-value
Meanwhile, Ameen Soleimani, the CEO of adult blockchain platform SpankChain, argued that increasing block rewards for funding purposes would weaken Ether’s capability to function as a legitimate store-of-value.
I oppose EIP 2025 to fund Eth 1.x from new block rewards. https://t.co/fczE7J6TF5 https://t.co/Gq3FhFSbJa
— Ameen Soleimani ? (@ameensol) July 22, 2019
Other prominent members of the crypto community including David Hoffman, CTO at RealT, a platform for tokenizing real estate, and Ryan Sean Adams, Founder of the cryptocurrency investment firm, Mythos Capital, also opposed the funding model suggested in EIP-2025.
Not clear how funds will be managed
Andrew Redden, CTO at Groundhog Pay, an Ethereum-based e-commerce platform, referred to the fundraising proposal as a “disaster.”
According to discussions between Ethereum community members, EIP-2025 did not clearly specify who would receive the rewards or who will be responsible for allocating the funds. As stated in EIP-2025’s specification document, the extra ETH rewards would only be produced for an 18-month period.
However, the additional ETH generated would not be awarded to the cryptocurrency’s miners. Instead, it would be transferred to a separate entity—but it remains unclear as to who exactly would manage the funds.
Acknowledging that he did not know how to allocate the extra ETH, Hancock remarked:
“I do not profess to know the best way to organize these funds.”
He recommended establishing a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, that would distribute the funds to various projects. Hancock believes that it doesn’t really matter how the capital is allocated as long as the process is transparent.
Commenting on the fundraising idea, Udi Wertheimer, a popular Bitcoin advocate and coder, said:
“There’s nothing in the notes to suggest this is seriously considered. The only reference to it at all is neutral, and made by the proposal author.”
Wertheimer also mentioned that he thinks there’s “no chance” EIP-2025 will be accepted.
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