Smart contract TODOs for PAPER

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• Receive public keys and store them into variables
• When each bidder calls "getPublicKey" function, the corresponding public key is shown
• Gets winner address, bid, and private key
• Reset smart contract
• Rename variables and functions
• Improve return methods

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Completed

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• Winner should be array
• submitWinner function should change
• getAllWinners function should be added
• Deploy smart contract

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TODOs for seller:

• Add seller info function
• Deploy SM

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These are the feedback coming from Dr.Karimi 🤔:

• The difference I see in the latest version of the code is adding comments and commenting out some assertions on node roles which I see is nowhere checked in the code (e.g., auctioneer is not bidding, etc.). How does the system ensure such conditions? More generally, if using the blockchain as an immutable DB:
• How does the system ensure data consistency?
• How can we argue cost-efficiency of the system for this use-case?
• There is no start and stop time for the auction. So, assuming the start is as soon as a seller requests, how do they decide the stop to decide the winner? Now, each phase (register phase, submit bid phase, etc,.) has a period of time. For example, when the bidders registered, they have 1 minute (the time in code is adjustable) to submit their bids. For winner submission and dispute request, the bidders also have 1 minute to do so. After that, the result of the smart contract is locked.