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Pachorro | 3 hours ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 3 answers from you just because I wrote “gas” instead of “transaction”

Butthurt?

I don’t get your “we” and why you are apparently in rage about ETH.

Go chill, babe! 😎
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Dikaios1517 | 1 hours ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Gas fees and transaction fees are fundamentally different things. Terminology matters.

Gas fees on Ethereum are determined by the amount of computation necessary to execute the transaction. Users set a gas limit, which is the maximum they are willing to pay, and can add a priority fee to try to have their transaction included before other transactions that are waiting to be processed.

Meanwhile, transaction fees on Bitcoin are directly tied to the amount of data the transaction will take up in a block and has nothing to do with the amount of computation necessary to execute the transaction, Users simply set the amount they are willing to pay per unit of data, such that transactions with a higher fee rate tend to be included in blocks first.