{"id":14702,"date":"2021-12-04T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=14702"},"modified":"2021-12-04T13:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T12:44:26","slug":"ethereum-has-the-potential-to-dethrone-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/ethereum-has-the-potential-to-dethrone-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Has the Potential to Dethrone Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Ethereum's monetary policy is superior to bitcoin as a store of wealth. Deflationary effects of the EIP-1559 strategy on the currency issues are being blamed for this <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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CEthereum Has the Potential to Dethrone Bitcoin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ethereum Could Dethrone Bitcoin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Various institutions, notably Sydney and Macquarie, have recently concluded that Ethereum's\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a> monetary policy is superior to bitcoin as a store of wealth. Deflationary effects of the EIP-1559 strategy on the currency issues are being blamed for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, a new analysis by Australian university officials sheds light on Ethereum's<\/a> potential as a store of value. The newspaper asks, “Is it better than Bitcoin? “. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When comparing Bitcoin's issuance to Ethereum's<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a> new deflationary issuance approach, Ester F\u00e9lez-Vias and other researchers from the University of Technology in Sydney write, “Can cryptocurrencies fight inflation?”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the paper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We show that following the recent change in its transactions protocol, the digital currency Ethereum displays a significantly lower net issuance rate of tokens than Bitcoin, achieved by destroying the fees<\/em>nassociated with each transaction.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The deployment of EIP-1559<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Ethereum Has the Potential to Dethrone Bitcoin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ETH is being burned in proportion to network utilization owing to the activation of EIP-1559. The proposal was first met with strong opposition, particularly from miners and mining pools, but it is now helping to raise the cryptocurrency's value as a deflationary currency in the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of EIP-1559 has resulted in the network burning a significant amount of bitcoin in fees. This change has removed about a million ETH from circulation in the short time it's been live on mainnet. This is what the report says about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many cases the amount of Ethereum burned outpaces the network\u2019s creation of new tokens, resulting in ETHpotentially becoming the world\u2019s first deflationary currency. We argue that this provides better inflationary hedging properties than Bitcoin, and Ether may therefore offer a superior long-term value storage than Bitcoin.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In an effort to achieve the same results, other cryptocurrency projects are employing similar burning mechanisms. There was a recent network upgrade that resulted in Binance coin's fees being burned. In contrast to ETH, which has no issue limit, Binance currency has one, which makes them fundamentally different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethereum’s monetary policy is superior to bitcoin as a store of wealth. Deflationary effects of the EIP-1559 strategy on the currency issues are being blamed for this Ethereum Could Dethrone Bitcoin Various institutions, notably Sydney and Macquarie, have recently concluded that Ethereum’s monetary policy is superior to bitcoin as a store of wealth. Deflationary effects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":13709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5561,5795,5562],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-btc-2","tag-eip-1559-3","tag-eth-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Worst-Cryptocurrencies-for-the-Environment-in-2021-Bitcoin-Ethereum-and-Bitcoin-Cash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}