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“Miners have strongly opposed this change, as it will significantly decrease their revenue, and they have even went as far as creating a website dedicated to stopping its integration.”

James Bakerour.status.im ↗

EIP-1559 burns most transaction fees instead of paying them to miners. The miners answered by threatening to attack the network they mine. The pools against it hold more than half the hash power. Decentralization works great until the people running it lose money.