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D. P. BauerGetting Started with Ethereum https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8045-4_1

1. Getting Started

Davi Pedro Bauer1  
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Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 

In this chapter, I’ll explain what Ethereum is and take you through the installations you’ll need to perform before you can start using it.

What Is Ethereum?

Ethereum solves problems that go beyond Bitcoin. When developing decentralized applications, we need a platform where we can code not only coins but a wide variety of solutions.

Ethereum is a platform that allows you to code smart contracts in the Solidity language. Using it, you can compile your code into bytecode to be interpreted by the Ethereum ...

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