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Blockchain Quick Reference
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Blockchain Quick Reference

by Brenn Hill, Samanyu Chopra, Paul Valencourt
August 2018
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
11h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introducing Ethereum

Ethereum is a blockchain-based system with special scripting functionality that allows other developers to build decentralized and distributed applications on top of it. Ethereum is mostly known among developers for the easy development of decentralized applications. There are differences between Ethereum and blockchain. The most important difference is that Ethereum blockchain can run most decentralized applications.

Ethereum was conceptualized in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, cryptocurrency researcher and developer. It was funded by a crowd sale between July and August 2014. Ethereum has built in Turing, a complete programming language, that is, a programming language meant to solve any computation complexity. This ...

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ISBN: 9781788995788