New post on ! Overclocking Blocks with Gas Refunds By: - @nero_eth 🔗 Highlights: - Gas refunds incentivize users to clear storage but distort the actual gas usage reported for blocks. - Current gas accounting makes it seem like blocks are using less gas than they actually are, which can mislead network performance assessments. - EIP-7778 proposes to separate transaction refunds from block gas accounting to provide a clearer picture of resource consumption. - Implementing EIP-7778 would improve predictability of block gas usage and increase network stability. - The proposed change preserves user incentives for efficient storage management while ensuring accurate gas accounting. ELI5: Ethereum uses a system called gas to measure how much work is done when processing transactions. When users clear out storage, they get some gas back as a reward. However, this can make it look like blocks are using less gas than they really are, which can confuse how we understand the network's performance. The article suggests a change to keep these rewards for users but not count them when measuring how much gas a block uses.