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What Is the Primary Difference between Bitcoin’S Block Size Limit and Ethereum’s Gas Limit?

Bitcoin: hard cap on physical data size (MB/Weight). Ethereum: cap on total computational work (Gas Limit). Both manage scarcity.
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What Is the Primary Difference between Bitcoin’s Block Size Limit and Ethereum’s Gas Limit?

Bitcoin enforces a hard cap on the block size (historically 1MB, now measured by 'weight'), limiting the physical data size. Ethereum enforces a 'Gas Limit' per block, which limits the total computational work (Gas) that can be included.

Bitcoin limits physical size; Ethereum limits execution complexity. Both mechanisms manage block space scarcity and network load.

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