© 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_3

3. First Steps with Ethereum

Kedar Iyer1  and Chris Dannen1
(1)
Brooklyn, New York, USA
 

This chapter is the first of our applied practice chapters. It walks through the two fundamental Ethereum interactions. In the first project, we will broadcast a transaction to three Ethereum networks. In the second project, we will deploy a simple Hello World contract.

Project 3-1: Creating Transactions

In this exercise, we will use the geth console to send ether. You may have used a wallet service to send ether in the past. We will be using JavaScript, the language of the geth console, and web3.js, Ethereum’s official ...

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