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The difference between an EOA and a contract

There are some differences between an EOA and a contract account. The following table distinguishes between an EOA and a contract:

EOA (account)	Contract account (smart contract)
Creation	A new account can be created at any time, using a wallet generation utility such as MetaMask or with https://www.myetherwallet.com/.	A new contract can only be created from an EOA or from an existing deployed contract.
Public address	An EOA account's public address is derived from its private key.	A contract's public address is created by the combination of a public address of creating account + nonce.
Private keys	An EOA can only be controlled using its private key.	A contract which do not has a private ...

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