4Ethereum
Ethereum is a different beast than Bitcoin. Thought up by wunderkind programmer Vitalik Buterin, it can do many things Bitcoin can do, but its primary purpose is to be a platform upon which decentralized applications can be built.
The main difference between the two is in their blockchains. Bitcoin’s blockchain basically records a type of contract, one that says that some digital funds have moved from one digital address to another. Additionally, you can run some simple applications on top of Bitcoin’s blockchain. But Ethereum expanded this significantly. Its scripting language is more advanced, and its smart contracts can be complex applications with a far wider range of uses.
