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Externally Owned Account

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An Ethereum account controlled by a private key. EOAs can sign transactions and pay gas; they have no code, only balance and nonce/state fields.

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Ethereum State Transition Function

... specified ether value from the sender to the recipient. If the recipient is an externally owned account, this completes the transaction. If the recipient is a contract account, the co...