Is the Miner's Right to Get the Transaction Fees?

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In proof of work, it's the os right to get the transaction fees. But in proof of stake, it is the stakers. And the proposal that, like the concern that we just talked abouta where is that the minors basically re direct the base fee which is indirectly goes to the Holders. I think the intersection of these two groups tis like, e, i guess, moving on.

In this episode, Su and Hasu talk about blockspace market mechanisms and EIP-1559. Read Hasu's analysis of EIP-1559 (w/ Georgios Konstantopoulos) Topics covered: - what EIP-1559 is and the problems it solves - negative-sum vs zero-sum vs positive-sum proposals - reasons against EIP-1559 - what, if anything, can Bitcoin learn from EIP-1559 - impact on long-term security - how realistic perpetual issuance is in Bitcoin - elastic blocksize proposals in Bitcoin - lessons from the scaling debate - how parasitic L2s can threaten baselayer security - how dApps benefit from EIP-1559 - building dApps on appchains vs Ethereum - why every chain incl. Ethereum specializes over time - first-price auction vs fixed-price sale - EIP-1559 as an oracle for on-chain congestion - moving the Overton window for changes to Bitcoin Su Zhu is the CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital. Hasu is a cryptocurrency researcher and writer. Together, they publish on Deribit Insights and uncommoncore.co.