A 6-line contract storing a single public string, deployed Day 9 of Ethereum by a prolific early experimenter who shipped 18 contracts in one week.
Historical Significance
Illustrates the rapid experimentation phase immediately following Ethereum mainnet launch.
Key Facts
Description
One of the simplest contracts ever deployed on Ethereum. MessageStore stores a single public string and exposes one function to update it.
Deployed August 8, 2015 - Day 9 of Ethereum - by a deployer who published 18 contracts across blocks 52,970 to 55,260 during the same week.
Source Verified
Exact byte-for-byte match on creation (458 bytes) and runtime (439 bytes). soljson v0.1.1+commit.858e7b8, optimizer ON.
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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contract MessageStore {
string public message;
function set(string _message) {
message = _message;
}
}