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I'm trying to create a raw transaction using NewTransaction send 1ETH to one transaction, set 21000 gasLimit(I understand this is fixed for any simple transaction) and set the gas price to 51 Gwei.

The issue I have is that there is no documentation about the unit used for Amount, gasLimit and gasPrice. Is it safe to use big.NewInt(1) (for 1ETH), uint64(21000) for gasLimit and big.NewInt(51) for gasPrice ?

NewTransaction(nonce uint64, to common.Address, amount *big.Int, gasLimit 
uint64, gasPrice *big.Int, data []byte) *Transaction
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Everything is represented in Wei. Wei is the smallest unit of ethereum. Gas limit (in your case 21000) is just 21000. Gas price is represented in Gwei 

1 Gwei = 10^9 Wei = 1,000,000,000 Wei

The amount to send in represented in Wei

1 Ether = 10^18 Wei = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Wei

So for representing 5 ether you can use 5*(10^18) and for representing 50 Gwei you can use 50*(10^9) .

There are web3 methods to directly convert these units in web3 docs.

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  • So after all not everything is represented is Wei. The gas price is i n Gwei and the amount is in Wei. – Books Jan 18 '18 at 8:11
  • The gas too is represented in Wei. But the gas price 51 is in Gwei. So if gas price is 50 then 50*(10^9) and if the amount is 5 ether then 5*(10^12). Hope this helps. If you need more detail I can edit the post and post a more detailed answer. – Kannan Ravindran Jan 18 '18 at 9:09
  • Is there any method function to do the conversion in Go ? web3 is a javascript sdk as far as I can see. – Books Jan 18 '18 at 10:52
  • There is a 3rd party support code for accessing web3 using go lang. github.com/regcostajr/go-web3 Though I would recommend using the web3js which is officially supported. You might also wanna check this godoc.org/github.com/jaynagpaul/go-web3 – Kannan Ravindran Jan 19 '18 at 1:27
  • Just to be clear: gas itself is an abstract unit of work that exists inside the EVM - it doesn't have a unit of wei or ether. The gas price has a unit of wei (or Gwei/ether). – Richard Horrocks May 20 '18 at 20:59

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