A Frontier-era Greeter contract with the message: 'Life at all costs, life whatever it may be'
Historical Significance
One of many early Greeter deployments showing real developers learning Solidity on the live Ethereum network in 2015.
Key Facts
Description
Deployed during Ethereum's Frontier era using the canonical mortal+greeter tutorial source from the Solidity documentation. The greeting stored is 'Life at all costs, life whatever it may be'. Verified as an exact bytecode match against the greeter-verification repo.
Source Verified
Creation TX matches: compiled Greeter base (692 bytes) + ABI-encoded greeting. soljson v0.1.1+commit.6ff4cd6a, optimizer OFF.
Heuristic Analysis
The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.
Frontier Era
The initial release of Ethereum. A bare-bones implementation for technical users.
Bytecode Overview
Verified Source Available
Source verified through compiler archaeology and exact bytecode matching.
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contract mortal {
address owner;
function mortal() { owner = msg.sender; }
function kill() { if (msg.sender == owner) suicide(owner); }
}
contract greeter is mortal {
string greeting;
function greeter(string _greeting) {
greeting = _greeting;
}
function greet() constant returns (string) {
return greeting;
}
}