Intro to Ethereum

by Mike Rosack

Sat, Apr 16, 2016
Room: Rapson 43
Time: 14:15

We've all heard of Bitcoin by now, but what's the next step in blockchain technology? How about a distributed, decentralized turing complete computer in the cloud? That's the premise behind Ethereum, a new blockchain that takes the technology pioneered by Bitcoin to the next level. In this session I'll give an overview of what Ethereum can do, and then walk you through a simple hello world Ethereum application in both the Mix IDE and the geth command line client.

About the Author

Mike Rosack has been working as a Solutions Consultant at Omni Resources in Appleton, WI for 5 years. He's spent most of his career working on all sorts of .NET projects, but recently has been working on MEANer things. He's very sad that Calvin Johnson retired.