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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | A general contract machine on a public chain, not cash alone. |
| Who may write | Open membership, as a Bitcoin-like chain that also runs programs. |
| What is settled | Shared state after programs run. The white paper is not the yellow paper. |
| Load-bearing assumption | Nodes re-execute. A meter bounds that work. |
| What this library says afterwards | Clients, the fee market, and rollups came after this PDF. Do not cite the white paper as the live network. |
| Rights | Rights uncertain |