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Inconsistency between "Accounts" and "Transactions" doc pages
Describe the bug
On the documentation for "accounts" it says:
An Ethereum account is an entity with an ether (ETH) balance that can send transactions on Ethereum. Accounts can be user-controlled or deployed as smart contracts.
This sentence implies that smart contract accounts can send "transactions", which contradicts the definition of "transaction" on the corresponding doc page:
An Ethereum transaction refers to an action initiated by an externally-owned account, in other words an account managed by a human, not a contract.
It seems the term "transaction" is used incorrectly on the accounts page so I'd suggest replacing it with an alternative such as "call" or "message" .
To reproduce
- Read doc page regarding accounts
- Read doc page regarding transactions
Expected behavior
Terms should be used consistently across the documentation pages.
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