Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Open your Google Chrome browser and type remix solidity in Google, as shown in Figure 3.1."

A block of code is set as follows:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"eth_coinbase","params":[],"id": 67}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$  geth --datadir=./chaindata/ init genesis.json

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Click on the Create button as highlighted in Figure 3.7. Voila! You just created your smart contract."