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How to buy Ethereum with card
- Pick ETH as the currency you want to buy.
- Choose a fiat currency to buy ETH with.
- Enter your card details and the recipient's address if you are sending to a third-party wallet.
- Receive your ETH in approximately 5 mins!
How to exchange Ethereum
- Pick ETH as the currency you want to exchange.
- Choose the crypto asset you’d like to get for your ETH.
- Enter the recipient's address if you are exchanging to a third-party wallet.
- Receive your exchanged assets in approximately 5 mins!
What is Ethereum (ETH)
Ethereum is an open-source, decentralized computing platform that allows smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps). The more poetic name of the Ethereum project is “a world computer”.
The idea behind Ethereum is to enhance opportunities for blockchain technology and to go beyond just transferring value from one to another. In 2013 it was proposed in a whitepaper by Vitalik Buterin to create a decentralized platform, that will allow users to implement smart contracts and design decentralized applications.
Ethereum’s native currency – Ether (ETH) is used as gas, which refers to fuel for the execution of smart contracts and functioning of dApps. After the London fork in the Ethereum network, when EIP-1559 was implemented, a gas-burning mechanism was launched, which caused a strong growth of the ETH price.
Ethereum has become a father to an incalculable number of tokens, thanks to its easy programmable ERC-20 token format. This helped bring to life such projects as Chainlink (LINK), Tether (USDT), 0x (ZRX), and others.
Ether (ETH) is ranked 2nd on CoinMarketCap, going right after the Bitcoin.
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