In The Crypto World, Miners Keep Timesheets
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2 min readSep 8, 2018
Within Ethereum applications we define the concept of gas. This is basically the unit that is used to measure the amount of work that is required to perform a single Keccak-256 hash, and where 30 gas consumed related to a single hash and 6 more gas for each 256 bits of data hashed.
In this way there is a motivation to keep contracts small, as they will be less costly. A sample contact which was been compiled has data and a gas value:
var supply = /* var of type uint256 here */ ;
var browser_market_sol_marketContract =…