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Inconsistency between "Accounts" and "Transactions" doc pages

Open ckoopmann opened this issue 9 months ago • 5 comments

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

  1. Read doc page regarding accounts
  2. Read doc page regarding transactions

Expected behavior

Terms should be used consistently across the documentation pages.

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ckoopmann avatar May 03 '24 07:05 ckoopmann