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Can someone explain the transaction struct?
expiration -> after this time the transaction can never be included in a block.
ref_block_num / ref_block_prefix -> this transaction can only in blockchains where the highest block_num%0xff has a ...
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What is the purpose of `require_recipient`?
Think of it as sending a carbon copy of the action. Since eosio.token does it with transfer, contracts can monitor and respond to deposits. e.g. if user a transfers EOS to contract b, then b could ...
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How to embed eosio nonce action in transaction to get over Error 3030011: duplicate transaction?
Use the -f option in cleos
This option will instruct cleos to include a nonce action in the transaction you are creating, that will make the tx unique.
-f,--force-unique
force the transaction to be ...
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What block hash function and transaction signature method does EOS use?
Block producers use SHA-256 to generate the digest and ECDSA to sign the block. Producers may sign using a K1 key (secp256k1 curve, used by Bitcoin) or an R1 key (P-256 curve, a NIST standard). ...
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How to sign raw transaction with eosjs?
You can use eosjs-ecc for signing easily.
If you want to sign a hash:
ecc.Signature.signHash(sha256hash, privateKey).toString()
If you want to sign something that isn't a hash:
ecc.sign(Buffer....
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Can a transaction be posted to the blockchain without an associated account?
According to the current documentation on GitHub, no.
Accounts
An account is a human-readable name that is stored on the blockchain. It can be owned by an individual or group of individuals depending ...
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Can a transaction be posted to the blockchain without an associated account?
No.
You can send it but it will be rejected by nodeos due to invalid signature.
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Is there any method to know whether a transaction has been confirmed or not?
You need to check the irreversible block:
an action is irreversible (final) if "block_num" < "last_irreversible_block"
Check this out: https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/wiki/Tutorial-Exchange-...
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Size limit for transaction data?
From the documentation, only CPU limitations are specified:
Transaction Limitations
Every transaction must execute in 30ms or less. If a transaction
contains several actions, and the sum of ...
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Is it advisable to use global variable in smart contract?
Global variables are more or less a design thing. I personally do not like them because of object-orientation for languages like c++. They are good for script languages, but if your application or ...
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Is it really the case that transacting on EOS is cheaper than Ethereum?
Updated 4/2019
In addition to the points below. With vAccounts, account creation will become significantly less expensive.
Read more here:
https://medium.com/@liquidapps/all-aboard-the-eos-train-...
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Why the first time I execute an action I get "Error 3080006: transaction took too long"?
The execution time is based on many factors in each execution.
It could be the cache missing or process management could blocks the nodeos process and makes the execution time exceeds the max-...
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Accessing current transaction ID within a smart contract
There are two issue on github: this which refers to this. According to these two links, you cannot access directly the transaction id, but the id is a calculated value, so you can compute it in your ...
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transaction with actions across two contracts
In EOS, you can construct Transactions that contain multiple actions. When the transaction is submitted, all of the actions must succeed, or the entire transaction will fail. An example is available ...
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how to know if a transaction was include in block?
Yes, this is more involved in EOS. You need to connect to a node which implements the history_api_plugin.
Then you can use cleos, the command line tool to check for the status of the transaction, ...
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Is it really the case that transacting on EOS is cheaper than Ethereum?
In other words, the user has to pay gas in case of Ethereum but anyway user has to spend some amount of network bandwidth/RAM/CPU usage in case of EOS while transacting so in a way user is paying ...
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Meaning of N() function in multi_index
The primary key for a multi_index table can not be a string. In general it should be an int.
The N() macro converts the contents within the brackets into a uint64_t.
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How can I get an accounts currency balance using eosjs
In eosjs v20.x, getCurrencyBalance has been renamed to get_currency_balance, and moved within the Rpc object.
You can use it like this...
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const { JsonRpc } = ...
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New version of eosjs does not use chainId, How does it work?
eosjs does require chainId, but if it isn't provided directly it will be retrieved from the host endpoint.
Api accepts chainId as an argument but if chainId isn't passed as an argument when the api ...
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How to transfer EOS Token with eosjs?
After searching the official doc and trying different approches I finally got it to work. I've used eos.transaction instead of eos.transfer and the following example is working for those interested:
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ICO/Payment contact
Look at this example:
https://gist.github.com/MikkySnow/feac6fd5a9d49da207b9bd59d3c672c4
Hope it will help you
#include <eosiolib/eosio.hpp>
#include <eosiolib/currency.hpp>
using ...
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Example of smart contract action that itself executes a transaction
Check this example of delegate bandwith, it executes the transfer action from the eosio.token contract using the INLINE_ACTION_SENDER to buy ram:
https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/blob/...
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How to sign raw transaction with eosjs?
To sign a transaction offline you can use eosjs. There is a configuration option
broadcast [boolean=true] - post the transaction to the blockchain. Use false to obtain a fully signed transaction.
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Can we get all the actions from all blocks?
You can get the inline actions in get_actions RPC History API endpoint or inside the details of a transaction using also the RPC API get_transaction.
So that's exactly what I'm doing in that eos-node-...
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Sending transaction from a Windows application
I see 3 main options:
Option 1
Bundle the cleos and keosd binaries with your application, so you can run them as children processes of your application and issue commands to them to manage the ...
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Transaction id is a hash of what?
From what I can tell, it's a hash of the transaction itself and the chain id:
From libraries/chain/transaction.cpp:
digest_type transaction::sig_digest( const chain_id_type& chain_id, const ...
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How to send EOS based tokens from one account to another?
You would add a transfer command to your token's contract as can be seen here. There is also a simple token contract example here if you don't need all the bells and whistles.
.hpp
void transfer( ...
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Why do failed transactions not consume CPU?
If transaction fails - it will fail on first validating node. It will not reach block producing node at all. Which mean there is no way this account can be charged for broadcasting bad transaction.
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Accessing current transaction ID within a smart contract
Here's an updated example using EOSIO CDT 1.6 code syntax
checksum256 get_trx_id() {
size_t size = transaction_size();
char buf[size];
size_t read = read_transaction( buf, size );
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Order transactions get mined in
You are right, this is the case in EOS as well. The transactions are ordered First In First Out (FIFO) and this is how the block producers order the transactions by the ID's and the hashes.
One ...
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