August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
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Ethereum accounts
On the Ethereum platform, you can have two types of accounts:
- Externally Owned Accounts (EOA)
- Contract accounts
Both of these accounts can hold balances of ETH; however, there are some differences between these accounts, which we will cover in the following sections. Both account addresses are in hexadecimal, which starts with the 0x prefix. The Ethereum public address of an EOA and a contract is always a 20 bytes (160 bits) address represented in hexadecimal form:
Ethereum account/contract public address format
You need these accounts to perform transactions on the Ethereum network.