What types of Ethereum transactions are there? What does the smart contract execution process look like? Is there an advantage to over-estimating gas in Ethereum?

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0:00 What types of Ethereum transactions are there?
2:17 What does the smart contract execution process look like?
4:25 Is there an advantage to over-estimating gas in Ethereum?

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