Simply Explained: Ethereum Gas

Just like the gas you put in your car, almost.

Gas acts as the fuel of the Ethereum platform

Gas limit

  1. Sending Ether to another address
  2. Sending Ether to another address with some added metadata
  3. Calling a function on a smart contract
  4. Publishing a simple smart contract
  5. Publishing a complex smart contract

Gas price

Why not set enormous gas limits for every transaction?

Common errors

Gas limit of blocks

Gas and smart contracts

Why are these fees important?

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Yakko Majuri

Writing code and writing about writing code. I speak for myself only. Medium houses my technical writing pieces — for the rest, check out yakkomajuri.com