Tim Roughgarden is a Professor of Computer Science and member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Tim did an extensive game theoretical review of EIP-1559 and joined us to chat about what the proposal is trying to do and why, and how it is doing it.

Tim Roughgarden: EIP-1559 – Tackling the Gas Fee Problem on Ethereum

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