August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
11h 19m
English
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Forcing Ether to a contract
A developer can choose to enable or disable the acceptance of value in a contract. This is done by flagging the named/unnamed functions as payable. But, there are ways one can send Ether to the contract by force.
This can affect some of the logic inside a contract, which was written based on the previous assumption. In this recipe, you will learn how to find and avoid such problems in your smart contract.