A little article about ethereum vocabular. For showing that it isn't "for devs only" (and also for impressing your friends)
Gas
Everyone uses gas, but not so much people knows what it's really.
For making it very sample, ethereum is a decentralized computer, and gas is a cpu cycle. If a transaction uses 21k gas, it's only 21k "decentralised cpu cycles".
Gas price is the price for 1 gas unit, and is measured in gwei (1 gwei = 0.000000001 eth)
Sharding
Sharding is one of the big eth 2.0 improvements. It's dividing blockchain into independent shards (looks like nano's block lattice)
For taking back the computer metaphor, sharding is multi-core. It will need for adapting smart contracts (let's try running old programs made for mono-core cpus).
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
Smart contracts run on the EVM. It allows them to run with their own data/variables (and not directly on nodes !!!)
Ether
A little remember : ethereum is the name of the blockchain, while ether is the name of eth token.
Nonce
Nonce is the acount's transaction number. Each time you sends a txn, the nonce increases.
There're two useful things about nonces :
- a transaction cannot get confirmed before txns with lower nonce are confirmed
- if you send two transactions with the same nonce, only the 1st confirmed (basically the one with higher gas price) will be kept, and second will be dismissed
note : it also applies to tron (but transactions never stay unconfirmed for a long time)
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