If you'd like to try mining or
developing Ethereum software (ICOs, tokens, dapps), or if you just want to control your own node and thus your own wallet's key, thereby signing your own transactions instead of relying on third party software, installing and getting to know Geth and Mist is definitely worth the trouble.
Not exact matches
Not only has
ethereum emerged as the principal platform for initial coin offerings (a process by which entrepreneurs working on blockchain projects sell a cryptographically scarce resource to raise funding), but major institutions including JP Morgan and Bank of America are
developing projects on private versions of its
software.
The largest
Ethereum blockchain
software company in the world, ConsenSys, will
develop a real estate database using blockchain technology for the pilot program.
ConsenSys, a global «venture production studio» that
develops software primarily for the
ethereum blockchain, was founded by Joseph Lubin, whom CoinDesk profiled for its Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 series.
The
Ethereum software project
developed early 2014 by
Ethereum Switzerland GmbH and The
Ethereum Foundation, Swiss non-profit foundation, was set up.
For example,
Ethereum, an open - source decentralized
software platform,
developed its cryptocurrency Ether, which is based on
Ethereum's blockchain technology, back in 2014.