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.
1 Instead of using the default data directory (~/.ethereum on Linux for example), Geth will nest. itself one level deeper into a testnet subfolder (~/.ethereum/testnet on Linux).  Instead of connecting the main Ethereum network, the client will connect to the test network,