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For those of us who are new to Ethereum: Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without an

by pcl 11y ago

For those of us who are new to Ethereum: Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference. https://www.ethereum.org/ https://www.ethereum.org/

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CGamesPlay 11y ago
After reading about this for the past hour or so, I found this to be the most helpful document to understanding Etherium: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Development-Tutorial https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Development-T...
- kristopolous 11y ago
  Great. It's essentially a cluster computing platform with a handful of small permutations on that basic idea. Why don't these people use more accessible language? It would dramatically help increase adoption.
  - bildung 11y ago
    >Great. It's essentially a cluster computing platform with a handful of small permutations on that basic idea. Why don't these people use more accessible language? It would dramatically help increase adoption. I guess because they aren't aware of the precursors.
grubles 11y ago
Maybe a more descriptive explanation (from the White Paper[0]): "What Ethereum intends to provide is a blockchain with a built-in fully fledged Turing-complete programming language that can be used to create "contracts" that can be used to encode arbitrary state transition functions, allowing users to create any of the systems described above, as well as many others that we have not yet imagined, simply by writing up the logic in a few lines of code." [0]https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper