What does blockchain gas mean
first, smart contracts are so good that they are not useless
smart contracts. As the name suggests, smart contracts refer to contracts that can be executed automatically by computer code; Ethereum virtual machine is used to execute smart contract; Smart account is the carrier that smart contract can be executed. In other words, smart account, this "account" can be controlled by Ethereum virtual machine. According to what control, according to smart contract
there is no free lunch in the world. The smart contract function is so good that it's not useless. When you trade in Ethereum, you have to pay the miner's handling charge. So what's the handling charge you have to pay on Ethereum system, and what's the relationship between
gas and handling charge
2. What's the matter with Ethereum gas
Ethereum gas is similar to automobile fuel. It needs Ethereum gas to drive smart contract. Gas is an English word, Chinese meaning: gas, gasoline, this thing in daily life, is a consumable. Why does Ethereum proce fuel
what is the meaning of gas in Ethereum? In fact, Ethereum's gas is closely related to transaction costs. Ethereum transaction needs service charge. This gas is the calculation mode of service charge of Ethereum
in the setting of Ethereum, the transaction fee is similar to an encrypted fuel, namely gas, which can drive the movement of smart contracts. When Ethereum executes transactions on the blockchain, the fuel will be graally consumed according to the rules of the characteristics
from this point of view, gas is really the same as its original intention, like automobile fuel. If you want to start a car, you must need fuel
What is the difference between the transaction fees of Ethereum gas and bitcoin When it comes to handling charges, you may be familiar with them. There is no free lunch in the world. Both Ethereum and bitcoin need service charge, but the service charge mode of the two is different. Bitcoin is used to pay bitcoin as a transfer fee directly, but Ethereum is not In essence, Ethereum is a virtual machine, which is decentralized and controlled by people all over the world, forming a "world-class computing network". When you send a token, execute a contract, transfer Ethereum, or do other things on the block, the computer needs to calculate when processing the transaction, which consumes network resources. In this way, you have to pay the "gas" to get the computer to work for you and the miners to process the transaction for yougenerally, the higher the gas price the sender is willing to pay, the greater the value the miners get from the transaction, and the more likely the miners are to choose the transaction. In this way, miners are free to choose to trade. In order to set the gas price for the sender as a reference, miners can directly put forward the lowest gas price they need to execute the transaction
How to calculate the gas consumption of Ethereumwhen Ethereum virtual machine processes transactions, Virtual Opportunities process one by one according to the operation instructions determined in the transaction, and each operation instruction has a specified gas consumption
Ethereum system stipulates two accounts: one is normal account and the other is smart account
for ordinary transfer transaction, that is to call "normal account", the required gas is fixed 21000
when calling "smart account", because the complexity of smart contract is different, the required gas is also different. The more resources (computation, memory, etc.) used to process transactions, the more gas will be needed. For example, an addition operation will consume 3gas. If more complex operations are performed, the more gas will be consumed
then you may ask a question: when a user's transaction involves a malicious smart contract, the contract is extremely complex, and the execution of the contract will consume unlimited fuel, what should we do? The solution of Ethereum system is: in order to avoid unlimited gas consumption caused by malicious
smart contract, the user needs to set the maximum allowable fuel consumption when sending the transaction, namely
gaslimit. In this way, even if there is a malicious smart contract, the worst case is only within the fuel consumption range specified by gaslimit
What is the relationship between Ethereum gas and transaction feeson Ethereum, the service charge you pay is equal to gasprice times gasused
you can understand gasprice as the unit price of fuel and gasused as how many liters of fuel the car needs
for a car, if you say 20 yuan per liter of gasoline, 10000 liters of gasoline is 200000 yuan. For Ethereum, each
gas is 20 gigabytes (gigabytes is the unit of quantity of Ethereum currency), and 10000 gas is: 20 times 10000 equals 200000 gigabytes, 20000 gigabytes equals 0.0002 Ethereum, that is to say, the transaction procere is 0.0002 Ethereum
the specific exchange value is shown in the following table:
for specific exchange rate query, you can check the following website:
for details https://jin10086.github.io/etherconVerter/
both gas price and ether price are freely regulated by the market, but they are different in that the price of ether fluctuates according to the market situation, while the price of gas is determined by miners, If the price of fuel falls below the miners' minimum requirements, the miners refuse to process the deal. The separation of gas and Ethereum can protect the system from the possible fluctuation with the rapid change of Ethereum price
generally speaking, most miners will choose to give priority to their interests. When dealing with the transaction, they will arrange according to the gas price from high to low, and give priority to those with high gas price. If you are in a hurry to trade, you need to raise the gas price so that the miners can see you earlier; If you are not in a hurry, you just need to set a gas price, which is above the bottom line of gas price set by miners
How is gas obtainedin fact, gas is the ether coin purchased from the miner. The ether coin in the user's own account can purchase gas from the miner, and the Ethereum client will automatically purchase gas with Ethereum according to the specified maximum transaction expenditure limit
Where did gas go in the endfor each transaction, the initiator of the transaction must set the gas limit and gas price. Different operations will proce different gas costs. When the gas is used up, the miner will stop executing, and the gas used will be used as a reward to the miner. This will involve several situations:
the first situation is that if there is a surplus gas, the miner will stop executing, Then the remaining gas will be returned to the transaction initiator or the creator of the smart contract. For example, if I send an Ethereum to Yiyi, the gas limit I set is 50000, and the gas normally consumed is 21000, then the remaining 29000 that has not been consumed will be returned to me
in the second case, if the gas limit I set is too low, or the Ethereum in my account is not enough to pay for my gas consumption, then the transaction will be cancelled e to insufficient gas, and the gas used for calculation will not be returned to my account
in the third case, if the transaction fails, I have to pay the handling charge for the occupied computing resources
How to set a reasonable gas pricebefore each transaction, you can query this website to confirm the gas price to be set: https://ethGasstation.info/ To sum up, in this article, we mainly introce the gas and service charge of Ethereum: gas is equivalent to fuel oil. When you process transactions on Ethereum virtual machine, you will consume computing resources, that is, gas. On Ethereum, the service charge you pay is equal to gasprice multiplied by gasused, that is, the unit price of gas multiplied by the total amount of gas consumed. The complexity of the operation is different, and the cost of gas is also different. When the gas is used up, the miner will stop executing, and the gas used will be used as a reward to the miner. The miner will give priority to the trader with higher gas price
currency circle: refers to the people who focus on currency speculation or even issue their own digital currency to raise funds. Generally speaking, blockchain project parties, exchanges and some blockchain media all belong to the currency circle
chain circle: refers to people who focus on the research and development, application or underlying protocol of blockchain. Without the technical support of the chain circle, the coin circle can not exist. In the future, the implementation of the blockchain scene will depend on the technology of the chain circle
mining circle: refers to the "miners" who focus on "mining"< Second, several investment behaviors of blockchain
currency speculation: similar to stock speculation, refers to the behavior of repeatedly buying and selling digital currency through trading platform in order to obtain high income
Soha: it's a transliteration of show hand, originally a term used in gambling games. It's the act of withdrawing all available chips at one time. When it comes to blockchain investment, it refers to investing all of your available assets in digital currency in order to speculate in money, which has the meaning of "bet your fortune"
Buddhist holding of cryptocurrency: it refers to the behavior of not caring about the price trend of cryptocurrency after holding of cryptocurrency. No matter how much the asset price of cryptocurrency falls, it will not rece the holding of cryptocurrency in hand
3. Segmentation of blockchain investors
banker: refers to the investor with strong capital volume, strong relationship network and the most informed information, who can influence or determine the price trend of a certain currency to a large extent
large investors: investors with abundant capital, but not as strong capital and relationship network as makers
retail investors: refers to the small amount of funds, small amount of trading, and unorganized investors< Four, blockchain investment common phenomenon
leek: is an image of metaphor, leek growth ability and adaptability are very strong, can be one after another in a large range of breeding. It is compared to some retail investors who do not know the market situation. Most of them are easily influenced by the investment sentiment. They buy at a high price and sell at a low price. Some people will lose money, and after they leave the market, new forces will enter. Like leeks, they will cut one crop and grow another soon
cut leek: it means that the dealer buys at a low price, speculates at a high currency price, sells at a high price after the retail investors come in and make a profit, and then smashes the plate to a low position. In this way, the retail investors will suffer losses and the dealer will make a profit. The makers and the big investors keep repeating this routine, that is, "cutting leeks", while the retail investors keep entering, the makers repeat the routine of cutting leeks
cut back: refers to the sharp drop in the price of digital currency, which is very huge, falling to half of the previous highest price. For example, when I buy a currency, the highest price of this currency is $100. After a while, I fall to less than $50. It can be said that my currency has been cut off
meat cutting: it refers to the behavior of selling stop loss in time when the price of digital currency falls in order to prevent the continuous decline from causing greater losses, so as to prevent greater losses in the future
being held up: it means that I spend a high price to buy a currency. After a while, the currency falls, and I don't want to sell it and stop loss in time. Instead, I choose to wait to see if the price can rise again. The waiting process is "being held up". In this case, I can be said to be held up
unwinding: it means that the purchased digital assets graally rise back after a round of sharp decline, and the price rising back exceeds the price when I bought them. At this time, I will not lose money when I sell these digital assets. This is unwinding
airdrop candy: refers to the free distribution of a certain amount of digital currency to users in order to promote the blockchain project at the beginning of the project. These free digital currencies are called "candy" by users.
Gas is translated as "gasoline cost". Gas was originally implemented on the Ethereum blockchain to measure the computing and storage resources consumed by messages
in other blockchains, node participants specify gasfee in local currency, and then pay priority fees to the proction node participants' blocks according to the natural gas consumed by the message
In fact, gas is similar to gasoline, which is used as the energy of a car to ensure that the car can run normally. Gas on Ethereum network "refuels" the transaction behavior and allows users to perform different operations
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the reason for the existence of gas. Gas fee will be priced from high to low. Messages with low price may not be packaged, while messages with high price will be packaged first, so gas fee is a market behavior
when the news is congested, the cost of gas will rise. If we do not deal with the congested news in time, we will lose the computing power. If the computing power does not recover for two consecutive days, we will be severely punished
if there is no gas, users can execute a program that will never stop. The reason may be that there is a problem with the code, or someone does evil. In order to prevent this situation, Ethereum introces the gas cost associated with each operation, which will prevent the program from running forever, and finally make the whole network stagnate