After starting to enter the world of Crypto, we often encounter the term Gas Fee. What is a gas fee and how is it explained, see below!
Understanding what a gas fee is
Gas is a pricing mechanism used in the Ethereum network. This mechanism calculates fees for carrying out transactions or carrying out smart contract operations .
While ether (ETH) is the currency that powers the Ethereum network, Gas is a special unit used to measure how much “work” (computational resources) is required for a particular task.
Naturally, demanding tasks will have higher gas costs compared to other operations that require fewer computing resources.
The fees to be paid are still in ether (ETH), but gas and ETH are two different things. In simple terms, computing tasks are measured in “gas costs”. On the other hand, each unit of gas has a “gas price” determined in ether (ETH). Thus, each transaction has a certain "gas price" for each unit of gas.
Conclusion
Simply put the gas cost is the amount of work, and the gas price is the price paid for “each hour” of work. The relationship between the two, along with the gas limit, determines the total cost for an operation or transaction.
So, if you want transactions to be validated quickly, it makes sense to pay a higher gas price, so that validators have an incentive to verify your transactions before others.
Likewise, setting a low gas price can cause transactions to stall because validators have no incentive to validate them.
The gas fee setting mechanism is important because it ensures that fees are charged in a fair and appropriate manner. This prevents resources from being wasted on operations that are not valuable to the Ethereum network.
Gas fees consist of very small numbers, usually they are expressed in “gwei” rather than ETH, where 1 gwei is equivalent to 0.000000001 (or 10-9) ETH.
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