“Bitcoin is probably the most spectacular example you know with Ethereum right behind it”
Ethereum
By Vitalik Buterin
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“simple questions like is ethereum gonna be a thing right are the subject of debate”
“we're seeing things like kind of record ethereum transactions happening”
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