Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. Here’s a list of all the terms and history that are related to Ethereum.
Hopefully, this will answer some of your questions about ETH in just a few minutes.
Account
An object containing an address, balance, nonce, and optional storage and code. An account can be a contract account or an externally owned account (EOA).
Address
Most generally, this represents an EOA or contract that can receive (destination address) or send (source address) transactions on the blockchain. More specifically, it is the rightmost 160 bits of a Keccak hash of an ECDSA public key.
Assert
In Solidity, assert(false) compiles to 0xfe, an invalid opcode, which uses up all remaining gas and reverts all changes. When an assert() statement fails, something very wrong and unexpected is happening, and you will need to fix your code. You should use assert() to avoid conditions that should never, ever occur.
Big-endian
A positional number representation where the most significant digit is first. The opposite of little-endian, where the least significant digit is first.
