August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
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Introduction to Ethereum
Ethereum was proposed in 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency researcher and programmer. The first production release launched in 2015. Ethereum is an implementation of blockchain, and is an open source, public, and decentralized computing platform. Ethereum gained popularity because of its smart contract's features. Developers can program their smart contracts and execute them on the blockchain platform so that the full potential of the blockchain's different properties can be used.