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Published inApr 2019
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Merunas Grincalaitis
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Merunas Grincalaitis

Merunas Grincalaitis, born in Lithuania and based in Spain since he was 4, has worked with blockchain companies all around the world, helping them create ICOs, dApps, MVPs, technical whitepapers, web apps, and audits so that they improve the Ethereum ecosystem with decentralized solutions that return people's trust in themselves. He created one of the first books about Ethereum development, named Ethereum Developer - Learn Solidity From Scratch, which sold a lot of copies worldwide, as a quick guide to provide a bridge for programmers interested in the world of Ethereum and smart contract programming. Currently, he's working on providing free learning resources through his Medium blog to all developers looking for expert guidance.
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Managing cryptocurrency wallets and cold storage

When it comes to storing people's funds, we must pay extra attention to how we do it since we could risk losing millions of dollars using our DAX. That's why the largest exchanges use cold storage with lots of security systems in place. Essentially, they keep funds offline in a remote location stored in secure hardware devices that are customized to their needs such as Trezor, Ledger, or their own.

In our case, we'll store funds in a series of smart contracts, known as escrows, whose only goal is to store people's money. There will be an escrow contract associated with each user account to independently secure all of their funds. That escrow contract will have a function to receive funds, only ERC20 tokens, and a function to extract funds executable by the owner of that escrow. Go ahead and create a folder...

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Published in: Apr 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789531374

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Merunas Grincalaitis

Merunas Grincalaitis, born in Lithuania and based in Spain since he was 4, has worked with blockchain companies all around the world, helping them create ICOs, dApps, MVPs, technical whitepapers, web apps, and audits so that they improve the Ethereum ecosystem with decentralized solutions that return people's trust in themselves. He created one of the first books about Ethereum development, named Ethereum Developer - Learn Solidity From Scratch, which sold a lot of copies worldwide, as a quick guide to provide a bridge for programmers interested in the world of Ethereum and smart contract programming. Currently, he's working on providing free learning resources through his Medium blog to all developers looking for expert guidance.
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