Answers to questions about Ethereum
Contents
- Ethereum
- How do I buy Ether or ETH?
- Where can I learn more about Ethereum?
- Where can I find the main project repositories?
- Where can I learn about the Ether sale and mining?
- Wallets
- Clients
- Contracts
- ÐApps
- IRC
- More Questions and Answers
There are several ways to answer this question, such as here, as well as the dedicated What is Ethereum wiki page, which was made at the time of the Frontier release, so it is outdated.
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)
Read this.
- Main site: https://www.ethereum.org
- Forums: https://forum.ethereum.org
- Github: https://github.com/ethereum
- Blog: https://blog.ethereum.org
- Wiki: http://ethereum.wiki (this wiki)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethereum
- Meetups: http://ethereum.meetup.com
- Whitepaper: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
- Yellow Paper: https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/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
- go-ethereum (@obscuren, @maran)
- Parity
- cpp-ethereum (@gavofyork, @programmerTim, @caktux)
- pyethereum (@vbuterin, @heikoheiko, @chenhouwu)
- ethereumj (@romanman, @nicksavers)
- ethereumjs-lib (@ethers, @wanderer)
- more repositories are in the Ethereum organisation on Github
If you have an issue with your wallet, an exchange or other matters relating to using the Ether cryptocurrency or making transactions, see this MyEtherWallet knowledge base. It answers many FAQs such as:
- transaction is not showing up or is pending forever
- ETH or Tokens sent to or from exchange haven't shown up / Transaction says complete, but funds haven't shown up yet
- Phish, Hacks, Thefts & stolen funds due to phishing messages on Slack / Reddit / Google Ads
Clients:
- Releases for Geth (Go)
- Releases for Parity (Rust)
- Releases for eth (C++)
- Releases for Pyethereum (Python)
- Releases for Ethereumj (Java)
- Releases for EthereumJS (Javascript)
Other:
- Releases for Mist (wallet and browser for dapps)
- Releases for Pyethapp (Python)
- Releases for Py-EVM (Python)
- Homebrew
- Guides
- Builds
- Building eth/AlethZero (C++)
- Building Mist (Go)
- Installing Pyethereum (Python)
- Installing EthereumJ (Java)
- Installing Ethereumjs-lib (JavaScript for Browser and Node)
With eth/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...]
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- Specifications
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- Tutorials
- Videos
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Tutorials
- Serpent
- LLL
Official
- eth/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)