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The point is that customers are already paying a lot of fees in Ethereum for financial services on the blockchain. Right now that money goes to run a lot of pow

• asenna 6y ago
  It will actually not be going to the Ethereum staker, the "base-fee" is going to be burned (removed from supply) and no one gets it, that's what EIP-1559 does (expected to arrive in the July London hard-fork) To add to this, the overall issuance of ETH yearly is going to reduce from about ~ 4+ Million ETH in the PoW model to about ~ 1.x Million ETH in the PoS model, because the PoS security does not require as much issuance.
  • Paradigma11 6y ago
    You can only burn a little since: 1.)If you burn too much the whole pricing and ordering mechanism for operations does not work any more. Burning is only going to lead to big players in mining/staking and consumers making direct side arrangements. 2.) There is less incentive to stake since burning benefits all regardless if you stake or not. Its essentially a stock buyback. But sure you still have the inflationary block generation as rewards.
    • Paradigma11 6y ago
      "But sure you still have the inflationary block generation as rewards." To be more precise: You are still penalized by dilution/inflation if you dont stake.
• spinny 6y ago
  The move to PoS will probably bring the gas price down a bit, sharding will bring gas price down and add speed to the network