Gas deduction on contract creation inside a contract

Question

I want to create a Contract (TokenTimelock from Open Zeppelin) inside of a registry contract. It seems as if my contract needs gas to do this. So I am wondering about using delegate call because I want the caller to pay for the gas, or I need to store ETH in my resgistry contract which I do not really want to do.

Am I correct that if a Contract is creating another contract that it is the one that will need to pay gas?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '18 at 06:38

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As of now, a contract cannot pay the gas for a transaction. In any form, it will be always an external account who will be paying it. Ether stored in a contract can be sent to another ethereum address but cannot be used as a fuel(gas) to a transaction.

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answered Nov 16 '18 at 06:38

Aniket

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Thanks, I need to figure out why my contract reverts if I create a new contract inside a function and add to a mapping (in the same mapping) – Phillip Gibb Nov 16 '18 at 07:54
Sure, you can ask a new question if you got stuck somewhere. – Aniket Nov 16 '18 at 07:58

Gas deduction on contract creation inside a contract

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