March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
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State storage in the Ethereum blockchain
At a fundamental level, Ethereum blockchain is a transaction and consensus-driven state machine. The state needs to be stored permanently in the blockchain. For this purpose, world state, transactions, and transaction receipts are stored on the blockchain in blocks. We discuss these components next.