The multiply contract that opens the go-ethereum Contract Tutorial, deployed with the author's own multiplier of 70 in place of 7.
Historical Significance
The smallest thing a person can deploy and still have deployed something. Contracts like this are the record of someone getting a toolchain working: the edited constant is the evidence that the source was understood rather than copied.
Context
Ethereum's Frontier network went live on 30 July 2015. The Contract Tutorial on the go-ethereum wiki, which the Frontier Guide included by reference, was the standard introduction of that period: it opens with a multiply function, then a mortal base, then the greeter, then a token. Contracts were compiled and deployed from the geth console.
Key Facts
Description
The contract the Contract Tutorial on the go-ethereum wiki opens with: a single function multiply(uint a) that returns a times 70. It holds no state, owns nothing, receives nothing and cannot be destroyed.
The tutorial's own version multiplies by 7. This deployment multiplies by 70, so whoever put it on chain had read the page, changed the number, compiled it and sent it themselves rather than pasting the example unaltered.
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
This contract has verified source code on Etherscan.
Show source code (Solidity)
// Submitted by EthereumHistory (ethereumhistory.com)
contract test { function multiply(uint a) returns(uint d) { return a * 70; } }
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