Ethereum miners increase gas limit by 25%

According to The Block, Ethereum miners have increased the gas limit per block to 12.5 million, which couldpotentially makeUp to 25% faster networking.

Ethereum miners start increasing on Saturdaynetwork bandwidth, increasing the number of transactions that it can process per second by about 25%. As a rule, this should speed up the execution of transfers with a large number of them.

Gas is an Ethereum-based token used to pay for transactions on the network.Limitgaz controlshow many transactions it canIncreasing the limit increases the bandwidth of the network, making it faster.Miners can smoothly increase or decrease the network throughput with each block creation by 0.1% – unlikeBitcoin's fixed block size, the Ethereum protocol allows this. 

Voting to increase the gas block limit from 10,000,000 to 12,500,000 theoretically means that the Ethereum network is now capable of processing ~44 transactions per second instead of ~35. 

However, not everyone in the community is happy with this decision.Blockchain is larger, and the validation process is more complex and expensive. 

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