Viewpoints: Ethereum
Ethereum, initially proposed in 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, is a decentralised, open-source blockchain. It first went live in July 2015. How Ethereum works Ethereum’s foundations are its blockchain and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which operate atop a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. The use cases of Ethereum Internet money − Ethereum’s native currency, ETH, is…