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What is an Ethereum contract?
Ethereum is described as using and enabling the creation of "Smart Contracts", sometimes called just "contracts". But what is an Ethereum contract? Is it a legal document, or something else?
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Who, what or where is a contract executed on a call?
In most exaplanations of the essentials of Ethereum, I miss an important detail: "Who runs the computations of a smart contract?".
Say I make a call, add some gas, all of which allows me to, say, extract some tokens from a (solidity) contract.…
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How to pronounce "fe" as in "the fe programming language"?
fe is an EVM programming language. How do you pronounce it?
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