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Warm COINBASE

EIP 3651, Warm COINBASE. The COINBASE address shall be warm at the start of transaction execution, in accordance with the actual cost of reading that account.

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Authors: William Morriss
Date: 2021
Publisher: William Morriss
Version: Source cited by the 2021 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0337
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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EIP 3651, Warm COINBASE. The COINBASE address shall be warm at the start of transaction execution, in accordance with the actual cost of reading that account.

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Morriss, W. (2021). Warm COINBASE. William Morriss. https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3651

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@techreport{eip36512021,
  title = {Warm COINBASE},
  author = {William Morriss},
  year = {2021},
  institution = {William Morriss},
  url = {https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3651},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eip-3651}
}

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AU  - William Morriss
PY  - 2021
PB  - William Morriss
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N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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