[ur-whale]

> since EIP-1559 that went live on August 5th

How did they pull that off w/o a hard fork?

Or was this a planned feature from the get go?

[bhaak]

Of course it needed a hard fork: https://ethereum.org/en/history/#london

It was first proposed by Vitalik in 2018 but lay dormant for a while before being picked up by community members and being prepared for inclusion. IIRC it took about 2 years to get it into production.

Besides the technical changes it's interesting as the most vocal proponents weren't developers and as such its inclusion was truly driven by the community.