Comment by ElBuenMayini on 19/06/2020 at 04:15 UTC

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Considering Tether users are burning 2.5 million dollars every 30 days to move the stable coin, which roughly translates into 80k daily, 500 dollars sounds great.

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Comment by lightclient at 19/06/2020 at 17:55 UTC

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Batching would save them a fortune. The intrinsic gas cost of a tx is 21,000 [1[1]], whereas the gas to actually execute the transfer is only ~5,000 [2[2]].

1: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/5435e0d1a1ae187f638ba3c852996713aa27d370/params/protocol_params.go#L31

2: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xabe50a14b3baa33583c8427ba692060a0a2cb335c71a225caa8f7e412b12516f