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In Transaction Details: Gas used should not be expressed in Gwei

Open tab00 opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Gas is a quantification of EVM opcode processing. It doesn't really have a unit name, but I think it can simply be "gas units". Etherscan doesn't even give it any unit name.

Gas by itself is not currency or money, so should not be expressed in currency units (e.g. wei or ETH).

Gas price is a rate: currency per unit of gas, like how much money you pay for a bit of work. It's commonly expressed in "Gwei". To be technically correct, it should be "Gwei per gas unit".

Here is the unit conversion from Gwei to nETH: 1 Gwei = 1 giga wei = 109 wei = 109 x 10-18 ETH = 10-9 ETH = 1 nano ETH = 1 nETH

Network fee = Gas x Gas price

e.g.: If Gas used = 50,000 gas units Gas price = 10 Gwei per gas unit Then Network fee = 500,000 Gwei = 500,000 x 10-9 ETH = 500,000 nETH = 0.0005 ETH

tab00 avatar Sep 18 '23 21:09 tab00

So you need to remove the "Gwei" from "Gas Used". You can just not even write the unit name, like on Etherscan and other explorers - they only write the number.

Here's an example transaction page on Etherscan, with my calculation guide:

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https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8e5a6187ad22f58a36678c70b7ef6327151241d0258473749abee13771421fab

tab00 avatar Sep 23 '23 17:09 tab00

Got it, thanks

JamesSmartCell avatar Sep 27 '23 08:09 JamesSmartCell