Reading the Ethereum Ledger: Transactions, Contract Verification, and ERC‑20 Signals

Whoa! This is one of those topics that feels simple at first. Transactions look like rows in a spreadsheet. But then you dive in and realize there's a whole ecosystem humming under the hood, with nonce puzzles, gas-price politics, and tokens that pretend they're simple. Honestly, my instinct said "it's just move money" — and then I kept finding weird edge cases that made me rethink that. Here's the thing.…