Ethereum’s common and median transaction payment slip, lowest in six months

The notorious transaction charges of the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem underwent a decremental part from Jan. 10 to file the bottom common and median charges of $14.17 and $5.67 — lowest since September 2021. 

Knowledge from Blockchair reveals that the common transaction payment of ETH in January was $53.03, which at its peak was $70.83 again in Might 2021. Simply inside a month, the common charges noticed an virtually 73.3% decline as evidenced by the next chart.

Moreover, the resultant median transaction payment additionally witnessed an 81.02% drop from January’s $29.88. Within the final six months, ETH’s median transaction payment was seen lowest in September at $6.26.

Apparently sufficient, the transaction depend of the Ethereum community has additionally come right down to numbers that have been final seen again in early 2019. Blockchair knowledge present that on Feb. 1, Ethereum’s transaction depend went right down to 14,574,808 from 36,851,128 — a 60.44% drop in only one month.

That is the primary time in Ethereum historical past that the transaction depend noticed such an enormous drop inside 30 days. In November 2021, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a brand new restrict on the whole transaction calldata in a block to lower the general transaction calldata gasoline price over the ETH community.

Associated: Particular person ETH miner hits jackpot with $540K block reward

An ETH miner working on 2Miners: Solo pool validated a block on their very own and acquired a reward valued at about $540,000.

As Cointelegraph reported, the miner earned 168 ETH for efficiently mining the block, which vastly outstrips the per-block common reward of about 4 ETH.