Owner-only self-destruct contract from the Ethereum Solidity tutorial. Calls suicide(owner) when the owner calls kill().
Key Facts
Description
The standard 'mortal' base contract from the official Ethereum/Solidity tutorial (owner set in the constructor, owner-gated kill() calling suicide(owner)), deployed by Cyrus Adkisson. This is the tutorial's stock contract, not an original creation; Cyrus deployed a copy. Creation bytecode (126 bytes) reproduces byte-for-byte. Since killed on-chain (runtime empty); EH preserves the historical creation code. mortal codegen is identical across solc v0.1.2-v0.3.6 (v0.1.1 emits 127 bytes); the 2015-10-17 deploy places it in the v0.1.4/v0.1.5 window. Byte-identical sibling: 0x63989aaec3c6ae6d29c9673cea430322a8ac2cfa.
Source Verified
Creation exact (126b). Self-destructed; runtime empty on-chain, matched against EH-preserved creation. Version-invariant across v0.1.2-v0.3.x.
Historian Categories
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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// Submitted by EthereumHistory (ethereumhistory.com)
contract mortal {
address owner;
function mortal() { owner = msg.sender; }
function kill() { if (msg.sender == owner) suicide(owner); }
}External Links
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