# Uncle Rate and Transaction Fee Analysis

DevFeed: [Uncle Rate and Transaction Fee Analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/uncle-rate-and-transaction-fee-analysis-16785.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/10/31/uncle-rate-transaction-fee-analysis>)

Author: Vitalik Buterin

Published: 2016-10-31T03:52:04Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/blockchain.md>), [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Bitcoin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bitcoin.md>)

Tags: [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [bitcoin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bitcoin.md>), [blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blockchain.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [proof-of-work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proof-of-work.md>), [research-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-development.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>)

## AI overview

This article analyzes how Ethereum's uncle rate relates to transaction gas usage and block propagation. It explains the role of stale blocks and uncles, compares propagation data with Bitcoin, and describes using blockchain data to study the relationship.

## Source excerpt

One of the important indicators of how much load the Ethereum blockchain can safely handle is how the uncle rate responds to the gas usage of a transaction. In all blockchains of the Satoshian proof-of-work variety, any block that is published has the risk of howbecoming a "stale", ie. not...