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Solidity Programming Essentials
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Solidity Programming Essentials

by Ritesh Modi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
222 pages
5h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is a smart contract?

A smart contract is custom logic and code deployed and executed within an Ethereum virtual environment. Smart contracts are digitized and codified rules of transaction between accounts. Smart contracts help in transferring digital assets between accounts as an atomic transaction. Smart contracts can store data. The data stored can be used to record information, facts, associations, balances, and any other information needed to implement logic for real-world contracts. Smart contracts are very similar to object-oriented classes. A smart contract can call another smart contract just like an object-oriented object can create and use objects of another class. Think of smart contracts as a small program consisting of ...

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ISBN: 9781788831383