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EIP 1559: The Economic Reform of Ethereum
EIP 1559 was this really fascinating economic reform that we did to Ethereum. It was actually inspired by some of the work on first and second price auctions at Cornell. The way the blockchains all worked before this is that you have a block and each block has a limited amount of space. And when users sent transactions, they specify what fee they're paying.