Questions tagged [byzantium]
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How to detect if a transaction failed before Byzantium fork [duplicate]
In short:
I'd love to understand how to detect if a transaction failed before the Byzantium fork.
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After the Byzantium fork it's easy to understand if a transaction failed or not, I just ...
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How does ethereum network keep consistent
Since nodes in Ethereum are decentralized and distributed, how does the system ensure consistency regarding the state of the blockchain.
I am aware that a validator, once they find the answer to the ...
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Transaction response doesn't contain "receipt" value
i'm doing this send function
let result = await myContract.methods.myMethod().send({from: account});
console.log("result:", result);
using web3.js ^1.2.2 on testRPC with Ganache, hardfork Byzantium, ...
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"VM Exception while processing transaction: invalid opcode" only with Byzantium hardfork
i'm testing my Smart Contract with Truffle and Ganache, everything works fine while using hadfork version "Petersburg", but when i switch to Byzantium i receive this error while truffle performs ...
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What happened in the Ropsten hardfork from Byzantium to Constantinople?
What were the consensus issues during the Constantinople hardfork in the Ropsten testnet?
One noted consensus issue is:
geth and parity have been in noticeable disagreement regarding block
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Is "Proof-of-work" a subset of "Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT)"?
Can we say that Proof-of-work is a type of Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) ? In other words, is PoW a subset of BFT ? Or they are two different categories?
Please note that there is a similar ...
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How can we verify BGLS aggregate signatures in Solidity?
BGLS [1] is an aggregate signature scheme by Boneh et al., that allows aggregation of signatures on n different messages from n different signers. What I want to achieve is to verify such signatures ...
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Can the precompiles in Byzantium for pairings be used for implementation of BLS verification?
I am looking into implementing some operations for the BLS signature scheme in Solidity, using the new precompiled contracts for pairing operations released with Byzantium.
In BLS verification, to ...
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Does the new receipt status field report all errors all the way down the call chain?
See this transaction on etherscan:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xd20a95a9f051d6961ca766a9b2d0f18b6afdf6d8465931a3f70f2c4b1c023688
Notice the odd note saying some part of that transaction failed but the ...
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What is the exact meaning of a transaction's new receipt 'status' field?
In this answer (https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/6010/1529) it seems to say that the status field will always be '1' unless the transaction failed, in which case it will be '0'.
In the summary ...
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Byzantium support in Jaxx wallet
Will the Jaxx mobile wallet support ethereum after Byzantium hard fork, after 16th October 2017?
If not what other mobile wallet should I use for my ethers?
Thank you,
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What's Byzantium? What's Metropolis? What should I do after these happen? Will I lose my ETH?
Sorry for the noob question, but I'm really confused.. :( Is there going to be a third Ethereum? Will I have to manually upgrade somehow? Which new ETH should I use?
Thanks in advance!
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How do I detect a failed transaction after the Byzantium fork as the REVERT opcode does not consume all gas?
Pre Byzantium fork, I could use gas == gasUsed to detect when a transaction has failed (further details in How can the transaction status from a thrown error be detected when gas can be exactly the ...
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Transaction Status
A very elementary question, how do I get a transaction status after firing the transaction? I mean suppose I do a sendTransaction where I transfer some amount of ether from 1 account to other, how can ...
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