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High gas prices are often caused by bidding wars between front-running bots. This upgrade will not stop this dynamic.

This is already a thing of the past past as those bots now use flashbots to pay the miners which doesn't result in high fees.

https://github.com/flashbots/pm

Interesting that, of all the many possible simple solutions to this massive problem with the protocol, they chose to ignore it in favor of something that solves… wait, what is the problem exactly that this upgrade solves?

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