We are going to keep the default gas price at zero in our beta branch for now with some more nuanced optionality creeping in during the next few releases . This annoying behaviour does not warrant a central response from us except maybe a nudge to miners to actively manage the min acceptable price . Min Tx pricing should not be decided by us but by a market of engaged miners we aren ' t going to get there by pricing by decree . Ken <| sep |> Very cute . But those considerations covered in that student resource book do not make an appearance in the Fed ' s macro models or the typical widespread academic macro models either . So , I don ' t see the relevance of that link . Your claim was that economics incorporates environment externalities . Since economics is done via modeling or econometrics , these environmental factors need to be in the models to be considered having been incorporated .