Si Justin Drake ng Ethereum ay walang pakialam sa kabila ng kalagitnaan ng taon ni ether: Q&A
When Ethereums “Merge” to proof-of-stake went off without a hitch last September, some felt the layer-1 was primed for a breakout. Speculation arose around a “flippening” and institutional investors waited in the wings. But ethers price did not end up meeting these expectations. NFTs tested new lows, and the bear market muted DeFi engagement. Bitcoin continued to outpace ether in 2023 — recently reaching dominance levels not seen since 2021. Meanwhile, institutional inflows are largely yet to materialize. Blockworks spoke with Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, about the network‘s current standing and future prospects. Keep reading for more excerpts from Blockworks’ interview with Drake. Blockworks: You can see variations of this stat in different places, but the rewards paid out by Ethereum were larger than the transaction fees that were burned in both September and October. It looks like thats turned around a little bit, but how should people think about issuance versus burn and when that flips negative? Drake: The fee market is exceptionally volatile. What you really want to be doing is zooming out, because when you zoom out, youre smoothing your data over a longer period of time. If you look at ultrasound.money, you‘ll notice that when it’s profitable,