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Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger (EIP-150 revision)

The historic library holds Wood's yellow paper at the EIP-150 revision, as a specification of the ledger rather than Buterin's white paper.

  • Rights uncertain
  • Protocol specification
  • Historic library path. The current yellow paper is a later file.
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Record

Authors
Gavin Wood
Date
EIP-150 revision, which is how the historic library names the file. The living yellow paper has moved on.
Publisher
Gavin Wood
Version
Historic library file described as the EIP-150 revision. Not byte-compared with the living yellow paper.
Document ID
BLC-PDF-0001
DOI
None recorded
Last reviewed
1 October 2026
Licence
No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.

Direct answer

The historic library holds Wood's yellow paper at the EIP-150 revision, as a specification of the ledger rather than Buterin's white paper.

The PDF currently published as the yellow paper is a living document. This record refuses to pretend they are the same bytes.

Why it is in the corpus

  • A venture that cites the yellow paper should say which revision. EIP-150 is a fee and gas change, not the whole of Ethereum.

Where to read

Legacy path remains. Do not treat the current yellow paper as this file.

Full text

Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.

Claims and assumptions

Blockchain Lab's reading of what the document is doing. Not a quotation and not the source text.

  • The file's own header, as indexed by the library, is a secure decentralised generalised transaction ledger.

Assumptions

  • This build has not re-extracted the PDF. The title is the library index, not a fresh transcription.

What changed

The specification kept moving after EIP-150. Cite the revision you mean.

Relationships

Cite this record

These citations point at the source document. They are not a licence to copy it.

Author–date

Wood, G. (2016). Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger (EIP-150 revision). Gavin Wood. https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{ethereumyellowpaper2016,
  title = {Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger (EIP-150 revision)},
  author = {Gavin Wood},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {Gavin Wood},
  url = {https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Rights uncertain. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/ethereum-yellow-paper}
}

RIS

TY  - RPRT
TI  - Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger (EIP-150 revision)
AU  - Gavin Wood
PY  - 2016
PB  - Gavin Wood
UR  - https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf
N1  - Rights status: Rights uncertain
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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  {
    "type": "report",
    "id": "BLC-PDF-0001",
    "title": "Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger (EIP-150 revision)",
    "author": [
      {
        "literal": "Gavin Wood"
      }
    ],
    "issued": {
      "date-parts": [
        [
          2016
        ]
      ]
    },
    "publisher": "Gavin Wood",
    "URL": "https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf",
    "note": "Rights status: Rights uncertain. Not a licence to republish the paper."
  }
]

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Rights record

Source status
Historic library path. The current yellow paper is a later file.
Use status
Legacy path remains. Do not treat the current yellow paper as this file.
Rights
Rights uncertain
Training and retrieval
Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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