@Edent Well, Ethereum all-time peak is 10k transactions per second, which is slow compared to 24k visa claims to be able to take. Unlike Visa, Ethereum has smart contracts, and those take significantly more computing power to process. So, in theory, without having cost of transaction dependant on computational difficulty, there may occur situation, where a lot of computations wasted on one troll spamming calls to expansive smart contract, and that would at least cause slowdown.
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I have a sincere question about #Ethereum.@Edent Even funnier if it would be some smart contract with a lot of computations
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I have a sincere question about #Ethereum.@Edent Well, if you don't have to pay gas you could just transfer a cent million times per second to a million different wallets and that would be pretty tough for rather slow ethereum network.
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I have a sincere question about #Ethereum.@Edent Main reason is to prevent transaction spamming. Most of fee gets destroyed, except if you decide to pay priority fee, priority fees go to miners.