Neither of those links imply ether will lose its role as input for gas payment. It simply lets ether be used by contracts in the same way tokens are, which allo

Neither of those links imply ether will lose its role as input for gas payment. It simply lets ether be used by contracts in the same way tokens are, which allows for greater abstraction of ether transactions. Vlad Zamfir explicitly rejects any call for economic abstraction: https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/against-economic-abstraction-e27f4cbba5a7 https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/against-economic-abstraction...