Ethereum blockchain-based platform is finally live and could change the internet as we know it

07/31/2015 - 16:14

Jordan Pearson | @neuwaves

Ethereum is an open source programming language, cryptocurrency, and chat system, and its founders and many fans believe it could change the way we use the internet. Today, the first build of Ethereum—Frontier—was released.

Put more simply, Ethereum is sort of like a worldwide computer based on the blockchain, the publicly viewable ledger that serves as the underlying tech of the Bitcoin network.

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