What is Ethereum?

Ethereum may refer to three different things:

  1. The Ethereum protocol or set of rules on which the network and asset operate

  2. The Ethereum network of connected computers running the Ethereum Protocol

  3. The Ethereum asset itself—although this is technically incorrect and the correct term is ether or ETH

 

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