Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts: Intermediate Projects for Solidity Developers

© Kedar Iyer and Chris Dannen 2018

Kedar Iyer and Chris DannenBuilding Games with Ethereum Smart Contractshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3492-1_1

1. Conceptual Introduction

Kedar Iyer¹  and Chris Dannen¹

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Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

This chapter provides a high-level overview of the Ethereum blockchain. The blockchain is an ordered series of blocks, each of which is an ordered series of transactions. A transaction runs on the Ethereum Virtual Machine and executes code that modifies the state tree. We will explore each of these concepts in more detail in the following sections.

Blocks

As stated previously, a blockchain consists of an ordered series of blocks . A block consists of a header with meta information and a series of transactions. Blocks ...