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.
Ethereum (virtual currency) Simple version: it's a really, really big computer made of many computers around the world that check each other's results. Anyone can run programs on it, paying only for what they use. Less simple version: A developer platform that makes it easy to build decentralized applications. Ethereum applications always execute the code they say they will - there is no 'security through obscurity'.