Ethereum: Go-ethereum Project

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Note: The following is an excerpt from the official Ethereum site. It is provided here as a convenience and is not authoritative. Refer to the original document as the authoritative reference.

Data sheet for Go-ethereum

Title	Go-ethereum
Lnaguage	Go
Status	Draft
Created	2016
Repository	https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
Description	http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/ethereum-clients/go-ethereum/index.html
Category	Client

Abstract

Source: go-ethereum Project

The go-ethereum client is commonly referred to as geth, which is the the Command Line Interface (CLI) for running a full ethereum node implemented in Go. By installing and running geth, you can take part in the ethereum frontier live network and:

mine real ethertransfer funds between addressescreate contracts and send transactionsexplore block historyand much much more