Ether

Ether is minted by miners as a currency reward for the computational effort they spend in order to secure the network by verifying and with validation transactions and blocks. Ether is used within the Ethereum blockchain to pay for the execution of contracts on the EVM. Ether is used to purchase gas as crypto fuel, which is required in order to perform computation on the Ethereum blockchain.

The denomination table is shown as follows:

Fees are charged for each computation performed by the EVM on the blockchain. A detailed fee schedule is shown in the upcoming section.

Gas

Gas is required to be paid for every operation performed on the ethereum blockchain. This is a mechanism that ensures that infinite loops cannot cause the whole blockchain to stall due to the Turing-complete nature of the EVM. A transaction fee is charged as some amount of Ether and is taken from the account balance of the transaction originator. A fee is paid for transactions to be included by miners for mining. If...