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Answers to questions about Ethereum
There are several ways to answer this question, which are introduced on the dedicated What is Ethereum wiki page.
If you prefer to learn by watching videos, see:
- Introducing Ethereum (Video, 10mi)
- Vitalik Buterin reveals Ethereum at Bitcoin Miami 2014 (Video, 28min)
- Singularity 1 on 1: Ethereum is a Decentralized Consensus Platform (Video, 69min)
- Our second Reddit "Ask Me Anything" for community selected questions (not actually a video)
- Main site: https://www.ethereum.org
- Forums: https://forum.ethereum.org
- Github: https://github.com/ethereum
- Blog: https://blog.ethereum.org
- Wiki: http://wiki.ethereum.org [Not working anymore]
- Meetups: http://ethereum.meetup.com
- Whitepaper: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
- Yellow Paper: http://gavwood.com/paper.pdf
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ethereumproject
- Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/ethereumproject
- Google+: http://google.com/+EthereumOrgOfficial
- IRC Freenode: #ethereum (http://bitly.com/IRC_ethereum for weblink)
- Stack Exchange: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com
- cpp-ethereum (@gavofyork, @programmerTim, @caktux)
- go-ethereum (@obscuren, @maran)
- pyethereum (@vbuterin, @heikoheiko, @chenhouwu)
- ethereumj (@romanman, @nicksavers)
- ethereumjs-lib (@ethers, @wanderer)
- Homebrew
- Guides
- Builds
- Building AlethZero (C++)
- Building Mist (Go)
- Installing Pyethereum (Python)
- Installing EthereumJ (Java)
- Installing Ethereumjs-lib (JavaScript for Browser and Node)
With AlethZero
- To process transactions
- Disable "Debug" > "Force Mining"
- Click "Mine"
- To force mine (Use sparingly, unless stress testing)
- Enable "Debug" > "Force Mining"
- Click "Mine"
With the eth client
# Only force mine to acquire ether or stress test
$ eth --force-mining --mining on [YOUR OPTIONS...]
- Articles
- Videos
- Specifications
- Examples
- Tutorials
- Videos
- Specifications
- Examples
- Videos
-
Documentation
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Tutorials
- Serpent
- LLL
Official
- AlethZero GUI client (C++)
- Eth command-line client (C++)
- LLLC Compiler (C++)
- Ethereum command-line client (Go)
- Mist Browser (Go)
- Pyeth command-line client (Python)
- Serpent Compiler (Python)
Community
- Emacs LLL Mode (@robmyers)
- Emacs Serpent Mode (@robmyers)
- EVM-Sim (@EtherCasts)
- MintChalk (@mintchalk)
- Home
- Ethereum Whitepaper
- Ethereum Introduction
- Uses: DAOs and dapps
- Getting Ether
- FAQs
- Design Rationale
- EVM intro: Ethereum Yellow Paper, Beige Paper and Py-EVM.
- Wiki for (old) website (still a good introduction)
- Glossary
- Sharding introduction & R&D Compendium, FAQs & roadmap
- Casper Proof-of-Stake compendium and FAQs.
- Alternative blockchains, randomness, economics, and other research topics
- Hard Problems of Cryptocurrency
- Governance
- Chain Spec Format
- Inter-exchange Client Address Protocol
- URL Hint Protocol
- Network Status
- Mining
- Licensing
- Consortium Chain Development
- RLP Encoding
- Patricia Tree
- Web3 Secret Storage
- Light client protocol
- Subtleties
- Solidity Documentation
- NatSpec Format
- Contract ABI
- Bad Block Reporting
- Bad Chain Canary
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