Rationale

As specificied in the EIP-1559 mechanism, the base gas is burned from the network and miners are only rewarded for priorty gas. This can leave miners minimal reward for processing transcations, which could lead them to only process well paid (tipped) transcations.

Implementation

I beleive this line

is responsable for the burning of basefee.

This should be changed to include the basefee in the reward.

There is still a burning mechanism as part of the unused gas, if the transcation gaslimit is 25% more of the gas used, only the 25% more is refunded and the rest is burned.
This should be kept as a "stop wasting block space" mechanism, to protect the network from 1 transcation with a gaslimit of 30,000,000 from wasting a whole block.

System information

Geth version: 1.12.1
OS & Version: All
Commit hash : HEAD

Problem Statement

Because Rethereum will never do the merge, this means that the EVM opcodes which were added from the merge and also the following instanbul & shangai forks.

https://github.com/Rethereum-blockchain/go-rethereum/blob/master/core/vm/jump_table.go#L57

Solution

Rethereum needs to run its own onchain fork to enable these features without needing to Merge PoS

Breaking changes

There might be some opcodes that were added in this forks are specific for beacon PoS and require beacon to work, we need to be vigil of these opcodes and not enable them in our own fork.

Hello,

I think you should consider to rename your fork of geth with a different name, just like most forks are currently doing: UBIQ -> gubiq, OctaSpace -> gocta.

Rethereum could use greth or just grth. Choice is yours but it would make our life more easy, especially if we already run the original geth, etheir from Ethereum Classic and/or Ethereum.