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Are all the transactions in ethereum have a relation to a contract (its to or from field is a contract). When two accounts want to transfer something between them, do they have to speak through a contract?

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Question: When two accounts want to transfer something between them, do they have to speak through a contract?

There are two types of accounts. From the White Paper (under Ethereum Accounts):

In general, there are two types of accounts: externally owned accounts, controlled by private keys, and contract accounts, controlled by their contract code.

You could consider externally owned accounts (EOAs) to be normal, wallet accounts controlled by a user.

Transactions between two normal EOAs don't involve a contract.

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  • what sort of transactions are between two EOA accounts? exchanging ether?
    – adi
    Commented Apr 18, 2018 at 21:40
  • Yes, correct. Just the exchange of ether. At a high level, similar to how two bitcoin accounts would transact.
    – Richard Horrocks
    Commented Apr 18, 2018 at 21:46

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