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How to increase my privacy on Ether accounts?
What would be the best way, if any, that one could change their address/account in order to make themselves unknown or hard to identify by people they traded with? More specifically, if I send ETH to someone, is there a way to prevent them from…
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Ethereum event log maximum size
I'm thinking of storing some data in logs by emitting events but I cannot easily find the answers to the following questions:
What is the total size limit of one event?
Can I store lots of string32 in event log data and what encoding is used for…
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What are the key criteria for meeting the ERC20 token standard?
I'm looking for a clear way to describe "the ERC20 token standard" to regular folks like me who are not developers, and can't seem to find a plain language articulation of the core components of that standard. Being a non-developer, the github…
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Location of public and private keys of Ethereum account
I want to know the details about key generation and handling in Parity. The questions listed are all related, so I put them all in this one question post.
When a new Ethereum account is created on Parity, a new file is created under…
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When is the geth.ipc file produced?
I'd like to access geth.ipc file in order to connect geth via IPC.
I've got an advice and it suggested me to access geth.ipc, but I've not found it on my mac.
Could you tell me when that file is produced? Btw, I installed go-ethereum by git as…
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To which remote ethereum nodes does Metamask plugin send signed transactions? and are they exposed to denial of service attacks?
So Metamask allows in it UI to connect to different ethereum nw (public/ testnet) right.
Do who is maintaining these peers?
Can I trust these peers?.
If so, can I setup similar service on my machine without subjecting my machine to DOS attack and…
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How to open the JavaScript console on Parity?
There is nothing like parity console.
How to open the JavaScript console on Parity?
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What's the difference between solc's bin bytecode versus bin runtime?
Solc says that bin-runtime is the runtime part of the contracts. What exactly is the runtime bytecode part and how does it differ from bin bytecode output?
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Geth can't connected to via Websocket
I am trying to connect to Geth via Websockets but unfortunately i am given 403 error.
I am using the --ws --wsport XXXX args.
Everything is done in a local instance, so that would be surprising if it has something to do with the port.
Any idea…
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web3.js with promisified API
I'd like to take away the pain from web3 development callback hell and use Promise pattern and async/await keywords on both client side and on Node.js.
Do there exist any web3.js builds or forks that would implement promise pattern instead of…
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How to get chainId / network name / network id etc in hardhat?
I'm looking to get the ID of the chain/network I'm running a script on in hardhat. How can I get the names and IDs?
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Convert struct to bytes in Solidity
Is there any convenient way to convert (e.g. cast) a struct type to bytes?
I'm trying to call a method like the one below (taken from here) where you can pass some (arbitrary) contextual info that get returned to you later in a "callback"…
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How to convert string to int
How do i convert a string into a int?
here is my code:
pragma solidity ^0.4.6;
contract MyContract {
string public a;
/* Constructor */
function MyContract() {
a =…
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Geth State heal in process explanation
I had a synced geth node (syncmode default = snap).
After restarting the machine geth starts to sync again. Ten hours are passed but still syncing.
In the log file i see a lot of State heal in process.
Can someone explain in the following line
State…
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If a blockchain is a distributed database, where is the data?
There are a lot of articles describing how Ethereum is just another database, and a number of posts here on this site that talk about storing data on the blockchain itself (e.g., [1], [2]). However, my question is a bit more basic than those.…
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