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    Ethereum Frequently Asked Questions + Weekly Discussion Thread

    Ethereum Frequently Asked Questions + Weekly Discussion Thread


    Frequently Asked Questions + Weekly Discussion Thread

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT

    Welcome to the Weekly Discussion. Please read the disclaimer, guidelines, and rules before participating.

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    • All sub rules apply in this thread.
    • Discussion topics must be related to Ethereum.
    • Behave with civility and politeness. Do not use offensive, racist or homophobic language.
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    /r/ethereum is a community for discussing the technology, news, applications and community of Ethereum. Discussion of the Ether price or trading is not allowed. Please keep those discussions to /r/ethfinance and /r/ethstaker.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Where's the best place to buy ETH?

    There are many centralized exchanges that support Ethereum. If you live in the US, the most popular exchanges are Coinbase, Gemeni and Kraken. Coinbase users can use Coinbase Pro for lower fees.

    When is Eth2 launching?

    Eth2 is a marketing term used to represent a number of updates to Ethereum. The Eth2 proof-of-stake chain first launched in December 2020. "The Merge", which is the event that will fully switch Ethereum's consensus to proof-of-stake, is estimated to be ready in early 2022, although there is no exact timeline. Other updates, such as data shards, will follow that update.

    Visit ethmerge.com to learn more about "The Merge".

    Do I need to do anything to update to Eth2? Will Eth2 create a new token?

    No, ETH holders never need to take any action to keep holding ETH. Ethereum users will be unaffected by the Eth2 upgrade. And the Eth2 updates will not create any new tokens.

    How can I stake my ETH?

    There are two ways that you can stake your ETH: by running your own validator, or providing your ETH to a staking pool.

    • Running your own validator requires a modern computer and 32 ETH. Visit /r/ethstaker for more details
    • Staking pools accept any amount of ETH. We recommend Lido or StakeWise

    Why are Ethereum transaction fees so high?

    Like most blockchains, Ethereum fees are determined by supply-and-demand. The large demand to use Ethereum has pushed transaction fees quite high (however, fees were just a few cents only 2 years ago). Fees are especially high during market volatility, and during NFT drops.

    What is being done to lower Ethereum transaction fees?

    Ethereum fees are reduced by using layer-2 rollups. Rollups are scaling solutions that allow for significantly cheaper transactions, while still maintaining Ethereum's security.

    Additionally, Eth2's data shards will make rollups even cheaper.

    While rollups are cutting-edge technology being actively developed, a number are already live on Ethereum mainnet. Visit l2beat.com to learn more about rollups.

    What's the best wallet for Ethereum?

    The most popular tool for using decentralized applications is Metamask. However, for security reasons, we recommend using a hardware wallet such as a Trezor or Ledger.

    Are there questions you'd like to see added? Leave a comment below.

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    Gas Fees are killing small investors

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 06:09 PM PDT

    A $40 purchase I wanted to make wants to charge me $200 dollars in Gas Fees. How are people with low income supposed to afford this?!? When are these supposed upgrades coming out? ETH can't handle this much traffic without squeezing every last penny out of your wallet. Until these upgrades come out ETH is a shitcoin to me.

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    Vitalik also sends a small amount to test before sending the actual amount.

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:30 AM PDT

    Ethereum Is Now the Primary Collateral for Decentralized Stablecoin DAI

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 11:35 AM PDT

    New Coinbase Earn - Loopring (LRC)

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 01:38 PM PDT

    Andrew Yang, crypto/UBI advocate, raised 6.9 ETH from his first NFT

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 06:41 PM PDT

    CBDCs are a false utopia and do not champion the vision that Satoshi set to envision; the importance of a decentralized stablecoin is of immense importance, especially given that within our lifetimes, we will see most of the world’s value migrated on-chain.

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 09:44 AM PDT

    ENS DAO: Call For Delegates

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:26 PM PDT

    The Houston Rockets' "Rocket Shop" accepts Ether! [Jerseys, clothing, novelties]

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 04:19 PM PDT

    Really? $800 for gas? ��‍♂️

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 07:57 PM PDT

    Why would anyone pause their staked eth on Coinbase? I saw the option today and couldn’t think of a practical use for that. I thought that all staked balances were locked until eth2.

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 06:40 PM PDT

    Too expensive to use. (Dont get mad)

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 03:04 PM PDT

    This coin is so frustrating. Why are gas prices so bogus??? I've been using Metamask as a method to burry and pull back out my staked SHIBA, It is so far completely useless, and on top of that my small orders are getting cut in half by fees. I love ETH with all my heart but it really seams unusable right now. WHERE IS THE MERGE?

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    Thought experiment.

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:43 PM PDT

    Those who plan to hodl for 10 years, and can't help watching the price movements 100 times per day, try this thought. Go observe an average 8 year old and try to guess what the price will be when s/he gets first job and wants to buy it.

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    ENS (Ethereum Name Service) is launching a DAO, token will be airdropped to anyone who holds an ENS domain name

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 03:11 PM PDT

    Do we know when will be ETHBarcelona exactly in 2022?

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 10:50 AM PDT

    Would love to understand the dates so I can join!

    This year's ETHLisbon was amazing!

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    Crypto cities by Vitalik

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 04:59 AM PDT

    If I buy ETH and the NFT market booms, will I benefit off of that, or will I need to specifically get involved in NFTs?

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 07:17 PM PDT

    Stablecoin Market Trends and Report

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 04:11 PM PDT

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    TLDR:

    In terms of overall market capitalisation for stablecoins, we have seen high demand and tremendous growth in the space due to the importance of the role played by stablecoins in DeFi. In Q2 2021, $BUSD experienced the largest growth in its market cap. This is likely due to the influx of users to the Binance Smart Chain due to high gas fees and network congestion on the Ethereum platform in Q1 2021. We take a closer look at the top 5 stablecoins by their market capitalisation.

    The top 5 stablecoin by market cap are $USDT, $USDC, $BUSD, $DAI and $UST respectively. The first 3 stablecoins are generally similar in that they are a form of fiat-collateralised stablecoin and have a centralised backing. The latter 2 stablecoins are a form of crypto-collateralised pegged stablecoin and are also considered to be decentralised.

    • Tether ($USDT) remains the most adopted stablecoin in circulation. For the case of $USDT, Tether Limited claims to back $1 worth of Tether for every $1 of USD, although there have been some controversies regarding this claim. As of July 2021, Tether executives are under federal investigation. The market cap for $USDT started to flatten in Jun 2021, but nevertheless recorded growth of 54% in Q2 2021.
    • USD Coin or $USDC is the 2nd largest stablecoin by market capitalisation. $USDC is governed by Centre, a membership-based consortium that sets technical, policy and financial standards for stablecoins. $USDC is issued by regulated financial institutions, backed by fully reserved assets and is redeemable on a 1:1 basis for US dollars according to Centre. In contrast with the decline in Tether's growth, we see a corresponding increase in $USDC's market capitalisation. $USDC market cap increased by a whopping 133% in Q2 2021, in comparison to Tether's 54%.
    • Binance USD (BUSD) is the 3rd largest stablecoin by market capitalisation and is similarly a 1:1 USD-backed stablecoin issued by Binance (in partnership with Paxos), and is approved and regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). $BUSD is used in the Binance Smart Chain and has also seen an uptrend in its market cap.
    • $DAI uses an over-collateralised mechanism to maintain a $1 peg of $DAI to USD. Unlike the 3 aforementioned stablecoins, $DAI is a form of crypto-collateralised pegged stablecoin and is decentralised. However, much of what collateralises $DAI involves $USDC. Critics argue this means that $DAI is backed by a centralised entity, making it susceptible to centralisation risks like the 3 stablecoins described above.
    • $UST is the stablecoin used within the Terra ecosystem. The $LUNA token in Terra is used to support the $UST stablecoin peg. The market cap of $UST is relatively small compared to the top stablecoins because $UST is not widely used in other blockchains but only has utility within the Terra ecosystems in protocols such as Mirror and Anchor.

    Algorithmic stablecoins are starting to develop this year but overall there are not too many outstanding projects. Stablecoins under the Rebase/Seignorage type models has not really performed in terms of maintaining their peg. Most of them have been priced below the peg price for a long time despite measures of price equalisation such as $ESD, $DSD and $BAC.

    $FRAX, $UST and $sUSD are stablecoins with pretty good performance when it comes to keeping relative stability against the 1 US dollar. However, $AMPL, although dynamic around $1, has a very large fluctuation.

    Stablecoin Supply Ratio

    Cryptoquant recorded an ATL for the Stablecoin Supply Ratio (SSR), which measures $BTC market capitalisation relative to the total stablecoin supply to estimate purchasing power in the stablecoin market. Accordingly, when the price of $BTC falls, the amount of stablecoin purchases will increase to push the price of $BTC up and vice versa. But the growth of stablecoin supply in the spring of 2020 and 2021 has kept SSR near historic lows. This shows that demand for $USDT seems to keep pace with the demand for $BTC

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    Question on cancelled transaction on metamask for Ethereum

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 06:07 PM PDT

    So this is my first cancellation of an etherum transfer ever on metamaska nd it went wrong… so i hit cancel and it said it was and sent out this 0$ hash to myself 0x08bc079e309c70a09b7156e87e5f0fa4de6e61c2f8ec155e50acfc5674db3c58 Costing me gas. However I never got the funds and mistakenly tried reseting my metamask wallet so I don't have the hash confirming the cancellation was completing. Will I get the ETH back or are the funds gone? Thanks.

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    Do Meme Coins Help or Hurt Cryptocurrency?

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 09:40 AM PDT

    I am just curious of what the community thinks about Memes...

    View Poll

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    If you were to open a stable crypto-token company (on Ethereum), in which country would you open it and why?

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:03 PM PDT

    What's the best place to start a company like that? Switzerland (hi Vitalik), Luxembourg, Malta, Singapore.. anywhere else, and why? I was wondering also in regards to taxes as well as bank interest rates.

    Id really appreciate some help from you guys, I've been trying to research this on my own but it's proven to be overwhelming. (Could be because I go crazy and print out 200pages at least of collected notes on each location just to sift through it.. but also I feel like I'm not knowledgeable enough and perhaps there are places I'm not even thinking of… )anyways I'd be super grateful.

    Thank you so much

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    Why is TPS on Arbitrum and Optimism sinking over the last month?

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:49 PM PDT

    MakerDAO successfully integrates Lido's staked ETH (wstETH)

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 08:20 AM PDT

    Atari opens Cryptocurrency coffee house in Dubai- #CryptoBeansCafe using #AtariToken $Atri and other options..

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 04:20 PM PDT

    EIPs Insight (October 2021)

    Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:28 PM PDT

    EIPs Insight (October 2021)

    October turned out to be spooky for EIPs as well. The eip-bot ghosted multiple proposals (moved to "Stagnant"). Follow the latest on the EIPs Insight.

    Summary

    - EIP editors list has been updated to EIP-1.

    - 122 EIPs are moved to "Stagnant".

    - 5 new proposals were introduced as "Draft". It includes "EIP-4345" for ArrowGlacier

    - 2 EIPs are moved to Review.

    - "EIP-3076" is moved to the "Last call", review ending on 2021-11-03.

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