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Ethereum is a decentralized platform capable of executing smart contracts and decentralized applications using blockchain technology.[1] These are applications that function exactly as programmed without any possibility of censorship, fraud, or interference from third parties, because the contract is immutable. It has a decentralized Turing complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.
Ethereum

Ethereum SymbolDeveloperVitalik Buterin, Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di Iorio, Charles Hoskinson, and othersLaunchJuly 30, 2015; 9 years agoStable version[+/-]Testing versionFrontier (Command-line Release version)Language(s)EnglishWritten inC++, Go, JavaScript, Python, Java, node.js, HaskellOperating systemLinux, Windows, OS X, POSIXGenre(s)Blockchain, Decentralized computing platform.LicenseGPL3, MIT, LGPL, and othersDevelopment statusBeta ReleaseSize1-2GB for the blockchain.Official pagewww.ethereum.org
Ethereum was founded by Vitalik Buterin in January 2014[2], and formally presented to the community in the form of a white paper.[3] The formal definition of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) was written by Gavin Wood.
Ethereum was funded as a crowdfunding project, the third largest project ever funded this way in history, and was launched on July 30, 2015.[4]
In 2016, a fork occurred in Ethereum and its blockchain was split into two due to the collapse of The DAO project, giving rise to Ethereum Classic.
