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Truffle Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Truffle Quick Start Guide Learn the fundamentals of Ethereum development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132540
Length 170 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nikhil Bhaskar Nikhil Bhaskar
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Gas versus gas limit versus gas price

One of the most common concepts to get your head around is the the difference between gas, gas price, and gas limit. Knowing the difference between these different things is crucial. Let's start with gas.

Gas

Every transaction you do costs gas. What's gas? Well, it's the fuel needed to execute a transaction, denominated in Gwei, which is usually equal to 1*10-9 ETH. Recall the smallest denomination of ETH, wei, which is 1*10-18 ETH, that denominates the amount you will be paying for the transaction.

As we've seen before, you can specify a gas amount in a transaction. We've done this before using web3. Recall that in Chapter 6, Testing Your Dapp, we had the following...

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