Hence, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as Cape Dutch (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers) or kitchen Dutch (a derogatory term used to refer to Afrikaans in its earlier days).
Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.
Ether is the native token of Ethereum, and serves 2 key purposes: 1  First, by requiring applications to pay Ether for every operation they perform, broken or malicious programs are kept from running out of control. 2  Second, Ether is given as a reward to those who contribute their resources to the decentralized network.