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_7

7. Ponzis and Pyramids

Kedar Iyer¹  and Chris Dannen¹

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Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

This is the first of the project and game chapters that will take us through the remainder of the book. The first six chapters covered the basics of Ethereum and Solidity. We will now move away from theory and dive in to practical examples of Solidity code. Admittedly, Ponzi schemes do not seem at first glance to be the most practical of examples. Surprisingly, though, some of the first interactive smart contracts released on Ethereum were verifiable Ponzi schemes. In this chapter, we will first write a simple Ponzi contract ...