Episode 44 - Block Gas Limit, Block Period, and Blockchain Scalability
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When we talk about blockchain scalability — which has been the theme for some of the current episodes — we must understand how the block gas limit plays an important role in the scalability discussion. In general, for any public smart contracts blockchain, it is important to measure and charge for the resource usage while executing smart contract logic. For this, we have gas. The concept of gas makes sure the user pays for the logic they want to execute on the chain. This discourages several kinds of attacks on the blockchain.
Episode 44 - Block Gas Limit, Block Period, and Blockchain Scalability
Episode 44 - Block Gas Limit, Block Period…
Episode 44 - Block Gas Limit, Block Period, and Blockchain Scalability
When we talk about blockchain scalability — which has been the theme for some of the current episodes — we must understand how the block gas limit plays an important role in the scalability discussion. In general, for any public smart contracts blockchain, it is important to measure and charge for the resource usage while executing smart contract logic. For this, we have gas. The concept of gas makes sure the user pays for the logic they want to execute on the chain. This discourages several kinds of attacks on the blockchain.