ethereum is an open source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It supports a modified version of Nakamoto consensus via transaction-based state transitions. ethereum was officially with an unusually long list of founders. Anthony Di Iorio wrote "ethereum was founded by Vitalik Buterin, Myself, Charles Hoskinson, Mihai Alisie, & Amir Chetrit in December 2013. Joseph Lubin, Gavin Wood, & Jeffrey Wilke were added in early 2014 as founders." Formal development of the ethereum software project began in early 2014 through a Swiss company, ethereum Switzerland GmbH . The basic idea of putting executable smart contracts in the blockchain needed to be specified before the software could be implemented; this work was done by Gavin Wood, then chief technology officer, in the ethereum Yellow Paper that specified the ethereum Virtual Machine. Subsequently, a Swiss non-profit foundation, the ethereum Foundation , was created as well. Development was funded by an online public crowdsale during July–August 2014, with the participants buying the ethereum value token with another digital currency, bitcoin. ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency. Most crypto stock like coinbase,poloniex,binance support ethereum buy or sell with bitcoin or credit card. But don't forget after you buy your ethereum you should know where you want to store your ethereum, detailed explain in the article below.

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