How to increase the paid miner fee of Ethereum
There is an essential difference between Ethereum and bitcoin. What is the difference? Bitcoin defines a set of currency system, while Ethereum focuses on building a main chain (which can be understood as a road) to allow a large number of blockchain applications to run on this road
from this point of view, Ethereum's application scenarios are more extensive, which is why we say that Ethereum marks a simple monetary system in the era of blockchain
1.0, and a transformation to other instries and application scenarios in the era of blockchain 2.0
however, there is no perfect thing in the world. Although Ethereum has expanded the application scope of blockchain in all walks of life and improved the speed of transaction processing, it also has some disputes and doubts
first, the solution to the lack of scalability of Ethereum: slicing technology and lightning network
the bottom design of Ethereum, the biggest problem is that Ethereum has only one chain and no side chain, which means that all programs have to run on this chain equally, consuming resources and causing system congestion. Just like last year's very popular Ethereum game "encryption cat", when this game was very popular, it once caused Ethereum network paralysis
to improve the processing capacity, Ethereum proposes two ways: shard and lightning network. Let's introce these two technologies respectively
(1) fragmentation technology
vitalik buterin, founder of Ethereum, believes that the reason why mainstream blockchain networks such as bitcoin process transactions very slowly is that every miner has to process every transaction in the whole network, which is actually very inefficient. The idea of fragmentation technology is: a transaction does not need to be processed by all nodes in the whole network, as long as some nodes (miners) in the network are allowed to process it. Therefore, Ethereum network is divided into many pieces. At the same time, each piece can handle different transactions. In this way, the network performance will be greatly improved
however, the slicing technology is also controversial. As we all know, the important idea of blockchain technology is decentralization. Only when the whole network witnesses (processes) the same transaction can it have the highest authority. The Ethereum slicing technology is similar to the group witness, not all nodes witness together. In this way, it will lose the absolute "decentralization" attribute, and can only achieve the purpose of high performance by sacrificing certain characteristics of decentralization
(2) lightning network
lightning network uses the way of transaction under the chain. What does that mean? It means: when the participants of lightning network transfer money to each other, they do not need to confirm the transaction through the main chain of Ethereum, but create a payment channel between the participants and complete it under the chain
however, lightning network is not separated from the main chain. Before establishing a payment channel, you need to use the assets on the main chain as collateral to generate a balance proof, which indicates that you can transfer the corresponding balance. In the case that both parties of the transaction hold the balance certificate, both parties can make unlimited number of transfers under the chain through the payment channel
only when the off chain transaction is completed and the assets need to be transferred back to the chain, the balance change information of the main chain account will be registered on the Ethereum main chain, and no matter how many transactions occur ring this period, there will be no record on the main chain
another real benefit of lightning network is that it can save the cost of miners for you. At present, when we trade on the main chain of Ethereum, we need to consume gas and pay for miners. Once we move the transaction to the lower chain, we can save this part of the cost
Of course, lightning network is not perfect. When using the lightning network, the assets on the main chain should be used as collateral; And this part of assets as collateral can not be used before the user completes the transaction under the chain. This also determines that lightning trading is only suitable for small transactionsthe above is the problem of insufficient scalability of Ethereum, as well as the two main solutions: fragmentation technology and lightning network
Second, there are loopholes in Ethereum's smart contract and the infamous Dao event
Ethereum's smart contract is very powerful, but there are loopholes in any code. The biggest controversy of Ethereum's smart contract lies in the so-called loopholes, that is, security issues. According to relevant research, 34200 (about 3%) of the nearly 1 million smart contracts based on Ethereum contain security vulnerabilities, which will allow hackers to steal eth, freeze assets or delete contracts, such as the infamous Dao incident
(1) what does Dao meanbefore introcing the Dao event, let's first introce what Dao is. Dao is the abbreviation of decentralized
autonomous organization, which can be understood as decentralized autonomous organization. From the perspective of Ethereum, Dao is a kind of contract or a combination of contracts on the blockchain, which is used to replace the government's review and complex intermediate proceres, so as to achieve an efficient and decentralized trust system. Therefore, Dao is not a specific organization, that is to say, there can be many Dao, all kinds of Dao
(2) the infamous Dao event
however, when we talk about Dao now, we basically refer to the Dao event, that is, the infamous hacker attack event we just mentioned. As we know, the English word "the" refers to "the Dao event". The Dao event
refers to "the Dao event", because we just said that Dao is not a specific organization, there can be many Dao, all kinds of Dao
in 2016, slock.it, a German company focusing on "smart locks", launched the Dao project on Ethereum in order to realize decentralized physical exchange (such as apartments and ships). Since April 30, 2016, the financing window has been open for 28 days
unexpectedly, this Dao project is very popular. It raised more than US $100 million in just half a month. By the end of the whole financing period, it raised a total of US $150 million. Therefore, it has become the largest crowdfunding project in history. However, it didn't last long. In June, hackers took advantage of the loopholes in the smart contract to successfully transfer more than 3.6 million Ethernet coins and put them into a Dao sub organization, which has the same structure as the Dao. At that time, the price of Ethernet currency fell directly from more than $20 to less than $13
this event shows that there are loopholes in smart contracts, and once the loopholes are exploited by hackers, the consequences will be very serious. This is why many people criticize Ethereum and say that its smart contract is not smart
to solve this problem, many foreign companies begin to provide code audit services in order to solve the vulnerability problem of smart contract. From a technical point of view, some teams are currently testing smart contracts. Most of these teams are led by professors from Harvard, Stanford and Yale, and some of them have obtained investment from leading institutions
in addition to the problems of insufficient expansibility and loopholes in smart contracts, the controversy over Ethereum lies in the POS consensus mechanism it pursues, that is, the proof of equity mechanism. Under the proof of equity mechanism, if anyone holds more money and holds it for a longer time, he will get more "rights" (interests) and have the opportunity to get bookkeeping power, Bookkeeping can also be rewarded. In this way, it is easy to create the oligarchic advantage of "the stronger the stronger"
Another problem is the chaos of ICO. ICO is a common way to raise funds for blockchain projects, which we can understand as pre-sale. The outbreak of ICO projects on Ethereum has caused illegal activities such as fund allocation and money fraud under the banner of ICO, which has caused security risks to social and financial stabilitymany new users believe that the sole purpose of mining is to generate ether in a way that does not require a central issuer (see our guide "what is ether?"). It's true. The token of Ethereum is proced in the process of mining, with a mining rate of 5 Ethereum coins per piece. But mining is at least as important. Usually, banks are responsible for keeping accurate records of transactions. They make sure that money is not created out of thin air and that users don't cheat and spend money many times. However, blockchain introces a new way to keep records, the whole network instead of intermediary, to verify transactions and add them to the public ledger
Ethereum mining
although "no trust" or "trust minimization" monetary system is the goal, there are still people who need to ensure the security of financial records and ensure that no one cheats. Mining is one of the innovations that makes decentralized records possible. Miners have reached a consensus on the history of transactions in terms of preventing fraud (especially double spending on ether) - an interesting issue that hasn't been addressed before the decentralized currency works on the blockchain. While Ethereum is looking at other ways to reach a consensus on the effectiveness of the deal, mining currently keeps the platform together
how mining works
today, the mining process of Ethereum is almost the same as that of bitcoin. For each transaction, the miner can use the computer to guess the answer repeatedly and quickly until one of them wins. More specifically, the miner will run the unique header metadata (including time stamp and software version) of the block through the hash function (which will return a fixed length, unordered string of numbers and letters, which appears to be random), changing only the 'nonce value', which will affect the hash value of the result
if the miner finds a hash that matches the current target, the miner will be granted ether and broadcast the block across the network for each node to verify and add to their own ledger . If miner B finds the hash, miner a stops working on the current block and repeats the process for the next block. It's hard for miners to cheat in this game. There is no way to fake the work and come up with the right answer to the puzzle. That's why solving puzzles is called "proof of work."
on the other hand, others have little time to verify whether the hash value is correct, which is exactly what each node does. About every 12-15 seconds, a miner finds a stone. If the miner starts to solve the puzzle faster or slower than this, the algorithm will automatically re adjust the difficulty of the problem so that the miner can rebound to about 12 seconds of solution time
miners earn these ethers randomly, and their profitability depends on their luck and the computing power they put in. The specific workload verification algorithm used by Ethereum is called "ethash", which aims to require more memory, making it difficult to mine with expensive ASIC. Special mining chips are now the only profitable way to mine bitcoin
in a sense, ethash may have achieved this goal successfully, because dedicated ASIC is not available for Ethereum (at least not yet). In addition, as Ethereum aims to shift from proof of work mining to "proof of equity" (which we will discuss below), buying ASIC may not be a wise choice because it may not prove useful for a long time< However, Ethereum may never need miners. Developers plan to abandon proof of work, the algorithm currently used by the network to determine which transactions are valid and protect them from tampering to support proof of equity, which is guaranteed by token owners. If and when the algorithm is launched, proof of equity can become a means to achieve distributed consensus, and the consensus uses less resources.
Ethereum miner fee
1. In a public chain, anyone can read and write data. Reading data is free, but writing data to the public chain costs a certain amount of money, which helps to prevent junk content and protect its security through payment
Secondly, any node on the network (each connected device containing a of the account book is called a node) can participate in the mining method to protect the network. As mining requires computing power and electricity charges, miners need to be paid for their services, which is also the origin of miners' fees Third, the difference between Ethereum and bitcoin, Ethereum introces the concept of gas, the purpose of which is to limit the amount of work required to execute the transaction and pay for the execution. Gas is used to measure the resources (including computation, storage, bandwidth, etc.) consumed by your transaction (or contract code call) 
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ten rights of miners:
1. The "ten rights" of coal mining enterprise workers in safe proction include: the shift leader does not go down the well, and the workers have the right not to go down the well; The workers have the right to leave the well early if the shift leader leaves the well early; Workers have the right not to work if potential safety hazards are not investigated; If the management personnel command against rules and regulations, the workers have the right not to carry out them
Without safety measures, workers have the right not to start work; Workers have the right not to go down the well if they don't organize safety study before class; If the "Trinity" (monitor, safety inspector and gas inspector) safety inspection is not carried out, workers have the right not to start work The workers have the right not to start the work if the detection and monitoring system is not installed in place and operates abnormally; Workers have the right not to go down the well if they are not equipped with fully qualified labor protection and protective equipment; The route to avoid disaster is not marked, and workers have the right not to go down the well. The coal mine shall not dect the wages and dismiss the workers for the above reasonslight wallets are good for imtoken, geekwallet, kcash, Cobo, etc.
Hardware wallets are good for ledger, trezor, etc., which involve large amount of digital currency or hold for a long time. Generally, hardware wallets are recommended
big body introces these personal good light wallets
1. Imtoken:
is a mobile light wallet app, which supports Eth and Ethereum erc2.0 standard tokens (such as EOS, DGD, SNT, qtum)
advantages: as Ethereum series light wallet, mtoken supports all the tokens of Ethereum erc2.0 standard, can control the miner's fee of each coin, can set the collection amount, and has convenient transaction record query, refreshing interface and easy operation, so it is suitable for ICO investors who need to receive a variety of erc2.0 standard tokens and trade infrequently
disadvantages: 1. The "discovery" mole of the wallet is not intuitive enough. 2. The tokens that can only be stored on the Ethereum platform, such as BTC and Neo, can't be stored. At the same time, the bifurcations of bitcoin can't be stored
2. Geek wallet
geek wallet is a simple and convenient light wallet, which supports the storage and management of mainstream digital currency assets such as bitcoin (BTC), lightcoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), EOS, usdt, etc. Using bip44 mnemonics, local private key, off-line signature and other security mechanisms, as well as mobile phone and computer al backup strategy, completely solve the loss of digital currency assets caused by hacker attacks, virus infection, mobile phone loss, forgetting mnemonics and other ways, and provide users with online Multi Chain digital assets one-stop management service. The platform also has tiaoshao market, which can carry out token trading of physical assets on the chain
advantages: it has high security factor, adopts local private key security mechanism, as well as mobile phone and computer al backup strategy, supports the current mainstream currency, and has a jump market on the platform, which can carry out token trading of physical assets on the chain
disadvantages: usdt transaction must use 0.0001 BTC as transaction handling fee, does not support some small currencies, page optimization is good, but the function is relatively few
3. Kcash
kcash is also a light wallet. At present, it supports BTC, ETH, LTC, etc, act and digital currency based on Ethereum and achain smart contract platform. Kcash has cross chain and cross contract technology, and the supported currencies are still increasing
advantages: as a Multi Chain Wallet, kcash supports multiple types of digital currencies and is very friendly to users who invest in multiple series of digital currencies. In addition, kcash also has the function of sending red packets, and in the future, it will launch currency transaction, bank card connection and other functions
deficiency: too many features lead to poor usability. In addition, there are some compatibility problems with Android versions. Some Android models will flash back when opening apps< Cobo
4. Cobo
Cobo is a professional digital asset management wallet, which can help you store your assets safely. The unique POS gain can help you increase the value of your assets. It supports more than 20 kinds of digital assets including eth, EOS and TRX, as well as more than 500 kinds of tokens
advantages: Cobo security is in the lead in the same level, using multiple security verification, hot and cold separation storage, HSM multi signature, Cobo provides you with stable income through intelligent voting, dpos vote pool, POS mining digital asset gain matrix
disadvantages: poor page optimization, complex functions, a little difficult to get started, and there is also a flash back problem of Android version
5. Ledger
Hardware wallet, which supports eth, BTC, zcash and other mainstream currencies, uses encryption chip technology to build security solutions for users, and is used to protect users' digital assets and block chain application security. This is a hardware bitcoin wallet specially designed for consumers. It provides enterprise level security hardware moles and hardware procts supporting the Internet of things
6, ledger
Hardware wallet, support eth, BTC, zcash and other mainstream currencies; Using encryption chip technology to build security solutions for users to protect users' digital assets and block chain application security. This is a hardware bitcoin wallet specially designed for consumers. It provides enterprise level security hardware moles and hardware procts supporting the Internet of things.