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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity

by Jitendra Chittoda
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 14

  1. Ethereum is a public blockchain, hence all account addresses and transaction data are visible to everyone. There has been some research going on regarding the use of zk-SNARK (zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge) to perform private transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.
  2. The delegatecall function should not be used at first. If it is required, then it should be used with extra care to ensure that delegatecall does not allow unauthorized code execution.
  3. To prevent your contracts from re-entrancy attacks, you must ensure that the state variables are updated before sending ether using the <address>.transfer() function. In other words, the transfer function should be called at the last step in the function. ...
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