From electronic voting to digitally recorded real estate assets and commerce, never-before-used applications are currently being actively developed and used with Blockchain.
Ethereum is a system first introduced at the North American Bitcoin Conference by Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. Although it is generally seen as an altcoin, Ethereum is an innovative system that aims to develop blockchain technology and use it in more areas.
Ethereum in short is a Crypto Operating System that takes the cryptocurrency Ether (ETH) as its power source. The aim is to enable users to create new software on the blockchain system that Bitcoin is connected to. Thanks to this freedom that Ethereum provides to users, it allows to issue many altcoins.
The purpose of the Ethereum system is to prevent the storage of information such as personal data by third parties and their use for different purposes. Today, almost all the transactions we make on the internet (shopping, banking transactions, our use of social media, our internet history, etc.) are recorded in data banks as data. For what purposes this information will be used is a complete unknown.
With the Ethereum system, these transactions are stored on many different devices in a completely scattered and anonymous way. Thus, access to this information becomes impossible and turns the entire internet into a decentralized platform.
In order to produce software that will be included in this decentralized system, Ehereum aims to use the Ether cryptocurrency as a fuel in one way.
Ethereum is currently the second-largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. The fact that its value has increased in a short time and is more innovative than the Bitcoin blockchain has brought to mind the question that Ethereum can be a competitor to Bitcoin. However, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has this to say about it:
“If we are comparing cryptocurrencies with the valuable resources in the world and we consider Bitcoin as GOLD and Litecoin as SILVER, then Ethereum is OIL. Because the underlying technology of Ethereum will be the energy source in the world's internet system. Just as oil is used in many sectors and technologies in the world, the same is true for Ethereum technology. That's why we refer to Ether as 'crypto fuel'. The energy needed by the Ethereum platform will be provided with Ether (ETH).
As it can be understood from Buterin's statement, Ethereum does not have a goal of competing with Bitcoin. We also see that the entire Ethereum founding team has been among the blockchain and Bitcoin developers since the first days of Bitcoin.
• While the transactions you can do with the Bitcoin system are clear, you can produce new systems and new altcoins with very different software with the Ethereum system.
• The Ethereum system is a more innovative system than the Bitcoin blockchain system.
• While you earn money according to your processing power in Bitcoin mining, a balance is observed between producers in Ethereum mining.
• It takes 10 minutes for a block to form in the Bitcoin system. In the Ethereum system, the confirmation time is much shorter, since the formation time of a block is 15 seconds.
Mining is an important factor for the continuity and security of this system with the same Bitcoin logic. In order for Ethereum mining to be done by everyone, the system requirement is not made with special production devices as in Bitcoin mining, but with a graphics card (GPU). The increase in the number of miners causes a decrease in earnings in Ethereum mining.
Although Ethereum production seems to be the same method as Bitcoin production, Ethereum production provides some advantages due to some minor differences.
For Ethereum production, you must first create an Ethereum wallet. After installing the necessary programs, you can start production. You can produce individually as well as in a pool. Being included in the pool will increase your production.
You don't need high processor devices for Ethereum production. Production is done over the graphics card (GPU).
Since the Ethereum system is a suitable environment for the creation of many new software, it is a system in which many new coins that have emerged later are traded. In order to launch a new coin, Initial Coin Offerings, called ICOs, collect funds massively before it is released, and the funds are made with Ether, the monetary value of the Ethereum system. Thus, the Ethereum system acts as a system that allows new cryptocurrencies to enter the circulation.
There have been many cases of fraud in ICOs, which are seen as unreliable by many.
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