[VIDEO] Anatomy of an Ethereum Transaction

Here’s a video I made about the components of a transaction in Ethereum:

Here are the components of a transaction summarized:

• Nonce (used to prevent replay attacks)
• GasPrice (in wei)
• GasLimit (in wei)
• Recipient (an ethereum address)
• Value (can be zero)
• Data (can be empty)
• v, r, s (cryptography magic, v was introduced in EIP-155)

Also I made another video where I go into ethereum’s block explorer etherscan.io and point out all the parts we mentioned in a real world transaction. Watch it here:

Links in the video:

• First transaction
• Contract transaction
• Self-transaction done with the purpose to save data (a message in this case) in the blockchain

I hope you enjoyed this new video format. I registered it all in one shot without too much editing to optimize my time, so let me know in the comments if I messed up something, if you have questions or cool discussions to raise.