# A country's worth of power, no more! | Ethereum Foundation Blog

<https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This transition is going to be a huge deal for Ethereum and will hopefully unlock a huge amount of capability for those building on the platform. What will happen to gas prices? It seems they would drop precipitously.

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