Whats best practice for sending ether to a payable address?

[abcoathup]

aja asked on Telegram:

whats best practice for sending ether to a payable address? I'm using .send() for now, but I want to move to a more secure methodology

[abcoathup]

Have a look at sendValue though you need to ensure that you don't introduce reentrancy vulnerabilities: https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/2.x/api/utils#Address-sendValue-address-payable-uint256-

I suggest reading Reentrancy after Istanbul for ways to deal with this:

Reentrancy After Istanbul

Originally published at: https://blog.openzeppelin.com/reentrancy-after-istanbul/ [image] How to protect your contracts against reentrancy after Ethereum’s Istanbul hard fork. The upcoming Istanbul hard fork, scheduled for early December, includes among other things EIP1884: “Repricing for trie-size-dependent opcodes”. The key word is “repricing”, and it means that some instructions will now cost more gas to execute. The reason why this has been talked about so much lately is that exist…