After much moronic searching, these two tutorials seem to somewhat demystify the idea: https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1634/tutorial-1-your-first-contrac

After much moronic searching, these two tutorials seem to somewhat demystify the idea: https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1634/tutorial-1-your-first-contract/ https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1634/tutorial-1-your-f... https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1635/tutorial-2-rainbow-coin https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1635/tutorial-2-rainbo...