Ethereum Address
- An EOA Address is derived from the last 20 bytes(160 bits) of the public key that are Keccak-256 hashed.
- It’s represented in a hexadecimal format, which us often indicated explicitly by appending 0x to the address.
- Example : 0x3DaA90098798193a000DE8C9A462f9Bf6271baDd
- The address of an Ethereum Contract is deterministically computed from the address of its creator(sender) and how many transactions the creator has sent(nonce).
- There is a lower-case address version and partial upper-case version that also contains a checksum.
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Question / Answer
Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin, better known as Vitalik Buterin, is a Russian-Canadian computer programmer, and co-founder of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.
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