What is Ethereum (ETH)?

Introduction

Ethereum is an open source, public software system based on blockchain technology that allows developers to build and deploy decentralised applications. Being a part of a decentralised system, this means that Ethereum is not controlled by any single entity.

While Ethereum and Bitcoin are based on blockchain network, both functions are vastly different.

  Official website: https://www.ethereum.org

   Whitepaper: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

Statistics 

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How to get Ether?

Ether is the native currency of the Ethereum. Like btc, bch or other coins, Ether can be traded and mined. There are people who use Ethereum to refer to the currency instead of Ether.

ETH can bought from all major exchange including Uphold, Binance, Coinmama, Bitfinex and Coinbase. It can be bought with fiat currency or cryptocurrency. Platforms like Coinbase and Binance allow you to buy ETH using your credit card.

ETH also can be mined with a GPU or ASIC miner. Or you can use cloudmining services to mine ETH.