A proposed chain-split fork of ethereum, EthereumPoW, has committed a fundamental change to its network that will in effect make Proof of Work (PoW) mining semi-permissioned.

“ETHW Core has just released its initial version,” the project said with one of its main feature being a change to EIP1559 so that the base fee is sent “to a multi-sig wallet co-managed by miners and the community.”