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An analysis of the fees and pending time correlation in Ethereum
International Journal of Network Management ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 , DOI: 10.1002/nem.2113
José Eduardo Azevedo Sousa ₁ , Vinícius Oliveira ₁ , Júlia Valadares ₁ , Glauber Dias Gonçalves ₂ , Saulo Moraes Villela ₁ , Heder Soares Bernardino ₁ , Alex Borges Vieira ₁

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Ethereum is a new blockchain‐based platform that is also capable of running smart contracts. Despite its increasing popularity, there is a lack of studies on characterizing this system, in special the fees paid by users and the respective delay to confirm the transactions, that is, the pending time. In this sense, we study the main features of Ethereum transactions and evaluate the common belief—for blockchain systems that rely on proof of work—that users who pay higher fees will have their transactions confirmed faster. Specifically, we collect information about 7.2 million of transactions in Ethereum and correlate their pending time to several fee‐related features. Moreover, we conduct our study evaluating different ranges of values for the features, such as default and unusual values adopted by users as well as clusters of users with similar behaviors. Our empirical analysis shows strong evidence that there is no clear correlation between fees‐related features and the pending time. Overall, we conclude from our investigation that transaction's features, including gas and gas price defined by users, cannot determine the pending time of transactions.

中文翻译：

以太坊中的费用和待定时间相关性分析

以太坊是一个基于区块链的新平台，也能够运行智能合约。尽管其日益流行，但缺乏表征该系统的研究，特别是用户支付的费用以及确认交易的相应延迟，即等待时间。从这个意义上讲，我们研究了以太坊交易的主要特征，并评估了普遍的信念（对于依赖工作量证明的区块链系统），即支付更高费用的用户将更快地确认交易。具体来说，我们收集有关以太坊中720万笔交易的信息，并将其待处理时间与若干收费相关的功能相关联。此外，我们进行研究以评估功能的不同值范围，例如用户采用的默认值和异常值以及具有类似行为的用户群。我们的经验分析显示，有力的证据表明，与收费相关的功能与等待时间之间没有明显的相关性。总体而言，我们从调查中得出结论，交易的功能包括用户定义的天然气和天然气价格，

更新日期：2020-07-06

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