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Answers to questions about Ethereum

Ethereum

What is Ethereum?

Ethereum is an open source platform to build and distribute decentralized applications. It's scheduled for release in the winter of 2014/2015.

For a quick overview, see:

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?

Clients

Where can I find official releases?

How to install development builds?

How to install the clients from source?

Mining

How can I mine Ether?

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...]

How to get free testnet Ether?

Contracts

Where can I learn about contract development?

Where can I learn Serpent, the Python-like language?

Where can I learn LLL, the Lisp-like language?

Where can I learn Mutan, the C-like language?

Where can I learn Solidity, the JavaScript-like language?

How to test contracts?

How to deploy contracts automatically?

Where to find example contracts?

ÐApps

Where can I learn about the Ethereum APIs?

Where can I learn about ÐApp development?

Where can I find ÐApp development tools?

Official

Community

Where can I find example ÐApps?

IRC

How can I join the Ethereum IRC channels?

Where can I find the Ethereum IRC logs?

Where can I learn about the ZeroGox bot?