April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
222 pages
5h 28m
English
Content preview from Solidity Programming Essentials
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Contract accounts
Contract accounts are very similar to externally owned accounts. They are identified using their public address. They do not have a private key. They can hold Ether similar to externally owned accounts; however, they contain code—code for smart contracts consisting of functions and state variables.