<h2>Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol</h2>
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<h2class="featurette-heading">What is Ethereum?</h2>
<pclass="lead">Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts, applications that run exactly as programmed without possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.</p>
<pclass="lead">See <ahref="https://ethereum.org"target="_blank">our website</a> or <ahref="http://ethdocs.org/en/latest/introduction/what-is-ethereum.html"target="_blank">read the docs</a> for more infos!</p>
<h2class="featurette-heading">What is Go Ethereum?</h2>
<pclass="lead">Go Ethereum is one of the three original implementations (along with C++ and Python) of the Ethereum protocol. It is written in Go, fully open source and licensed under the GNU LGPL v3.</p>
<pclass="lead">See <ahref="https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum"target="_blank">our repository</a> and <ahref="./downloads">downloads section</a> for the code!</p>
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<h2class="featurette-heading">How can I use it?</h2>
<pclass="lead">Go Ethereum is available either as a standalone client called Geth that you can install on pretty much any operating system, or as a library that you can embed in your Go, Android or iOS projects.</p>
<pclass="lead">See our <ahref="./install">installation guide</a> or our <ahref="./downloads">developer guide</a> for details!</p>