Million Ether Homepage

Storing Colors in a Pixel Grid

Million Ether Page Essential Smart Contract

Tip: Mining only when there are transactions

Tip: Using Remix IDE

Getting Started

Getting The Pixels and Ethereum Events

Building a DApp UI

Drawing in HTML Canvas

Using Websockets with Web3

Web3 and Events Over WebSockets

Drawing Pixels from the Blockchain

Viewing Pixels

Buying An Image -- Reading Pixels

Buying An Image -- Sending Transactions

Pixel bidding and structs

Payable Contracts, payable Functions

Contract Owner and require

Payable color pixel function

Buying Pixels

Sending funds from a contract

The safer way to send funds from a contract

The Pull Payment Pattern - Withdraw payments when outbid

Million Ether Homepage Summary

Auctioning Pixels

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In this course, we'll build a DApp inspired by [The Million Dollar Homepage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage). We'll build a 1 million pixel page, and each pixel can be colored by placing the highest bid.

In this course we'll walk through every step of writing a smart contract, deploying it, hosting auctions, and connecting it to the browser through web3. 

If you're looking to build real, full-stack ethereum Dapps, then this is a perfectly-sized example.

We'll build a DApp inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage, powered by an auction on the Ethereum blockchain

Now let's connect to the app in our browser and listen for events.

I'm going to be using Remix for this video, but remember, you don't have to. You can use the 

 console, or any other method you want to deploy your contracts.

Right now, I have remixd and geth running in my terminal and I also have my accounts unlocked, and geth setup to mine.

We start by deploying our contract then grab the contract address and the ABI. 

// Deploy contract
// Copy ABI
pbpaste > src/MillionEtherPage.abi.json
cat src/MillionEtherPage.abi.json | jq '.'

// import the ABI
const abi = require('./MillionEtherPage.abi.json');

const mepAddress =
  '0x95361244b0cc2410c52ecb3e2b90c96e9448834c';

let mep = new web3.eth.Contract(abi, mepAddress);

We don't need the checkBalance function anymore, so let's get rid of it.

Now that we have our contract instance, there are two methods we can use to read events.

 events and the second one subscribes to all 

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Now let's connect to the app in our browser and listen for events.

I'm going to be using Remix for this video, but remember, you don't have to. You can use the `geth` console, or any other method you want to deploy your contracts.

Right now, I have remixd and geth running in my terminal and I also have my accounts unlocked, and geth setup to mine.

We start by deploying our contract then grab the contract address and the ABI. 

    // Deploy contract
    // Copy ABI
    pbpaste > src/MillionEtherPage.abi.json
    cat src/MillionEtherPage.abi.json | jq '.'

```javascript
// import the ABI
const abi = require('./MillionEtherPage.abi.json');

const mepAddress =
  '0x95361244b0cc2410c52ecb3e2b90c96e9448834c';

let mep = new web3.eth.Contract(abi, mepAddress);
```

> We don't need the checkBalance function anymore, so let's get rid of it.

Now that we have our contract instance, there are two methods we can use to read events.

The first one gets _historic_ events and the second one subscribes to all _new_ events.

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Introduction:

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Module 1: Getting Started

Lesson 1: (3:23)

Million Ether Homepage

Lesson 2: (3:18)

Storing Colors in a Pixel Grid

Lesson 3: (4:29)

Million Ether Page Essential Smart Contract

Lesson 4: (1:56)

Tip: Mining only when there are transactions

Lesson 5: (7:08)

Tip: Using Remix IDE

Module 2: Viewing Pixels

Lesson 1: (6:08)

Getting The Pixels and Ethereum Events

Lesson 2: (7:15)

Gas

Lesson 3: (1:01)

Building a DApp UI

Lesson 4: (3:09)

Drawing in HTML Canvas

Lesson 5: (1:15)

Using Websockets with Web3

Lesson 6: (3:09)

Web3 and Events Over WebSockets

Lesson 7: (3:41)

Drawing Pixels from the Blockchain

Module 3: Buying Pixels

Lesson 1: (1:57)

Buying An Image -- Reading Pixels

Lesson 2: (4:51)

Buying An Image -- Sending Transactions

Lesson 3: (1:25)

Pixel bidding and structs

Lesson 4: (2:48)

Payable Contracts, payable Functions

Lesson 5: (3:35)

Contract Owner and require

Lesson 6: (2:38)

Payable color pixel function

Module 4: Auctioning Pixels

Lesson 1: (4:03)

Sending funds from a contract

Lesson 2: (3:26)

The safer way to send funds from a contract

Lesson 3: (4:37)

The Pull Payment Pattern - Withdraw payments when outbid

Lesson 4: (6:46)

Million Ether Homepage Summary

Web3 and Events Over WebSockets