Richard Horrocks

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How would I explain Ethereum to a non-technical friend?

blockchain bitcoin asked Jan 20, 2016 at 17:27

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What is Geth's "fast" sync, and why is it faster?

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What is Geth's "light" sync, and why is it so fast?

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53 votes

What is Whisper and what is it used for?

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30 votes

What is the total supply of IOTA?

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How does Ethereum deal with blockchain scalability?

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By what mechanism are ASIC-based miners made less favourable?

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How do I remove accounts using the Geth console?

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Should running VNC on Jessie Lite "just work"?

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What is the difference between a smart contract and a DAO?

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Top Answers

Is the block.timestamp value in Solidity seconds or milliseconds?

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What is the difference between `now` and `block.timestamp`?

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Visibility for constructor is ignored. If you want the contract to be non-deployable, making it "abstract" is sufficient

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What is a chainID in Ethereum, how is it different than NetworkID, and how is it used?

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What is uint256?

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Error while compiling: Stack too deep

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Can I square root in Solidity?

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Is there a way to generate ethereum paper wallets?

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The meaning/specification of "config" in genesis.json

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List of pre-compiled contracts

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Ropsten testnet is under kind of attack? What can we do?

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Is there length limits on Token Symbols?

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Where does the number 21000 come from for the base gas consumption in Ethereum?

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What uint type should be declared for unix timestamps?

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What is Parity's “warp” sync, and why is it faster than Geth "fast"?

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How to automatically add a custom token to MetaMask with ethers.js

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Meaning of 'using SafeMath for uint256;'

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What does Parity logs means?

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What is the default ordering of transactions during mining?

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I have two Metamask accounts with the same password and seed phrase. How is this possible?

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Why use filters - eth_getLogs vs eth_newFilter

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Why not mine my own transactions?

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Why is the Ethereum paper called the "yellow paper"?

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What does each genesis.json parameter mean?

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What the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum private/public keys and address?

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How to change verbosity without restarting geth? (admin.verbosity undefined)

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Why does Ethereum require use of UDP (and not TCP) for discovery?

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What does griefing mean?

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Difficulty and total difficulty

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ProviderError: max code size exceeded

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