Pi Day Special - Homestead!

Join us on Pi Day to celebrate the "Homestead" phase of the Ethereum project. That transition will have happened earlier the same day, at block #1,150,000.

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Presentation on Ethereum @ Homestead by local developer Bob Summerwill (http://bobsummerwill.com/about), who works on the Ethereum C++ client team (http://github.com/ethereum/webthree-umbrella), and on porting Ethereum (http://github.com/doublethinkco/webthree-umbrella-cross) to mobile, wearables and other resource-limited devices (http://doublethink.co/2016/02/23/we-have-blockgrantx-funding/).

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And we will also be doing some practical STUFF, so bring your laptops :-)

Read more about Homestead in Jeff's official post (https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/02/29/homestead-release/).

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Check out the Homestead Documentation (http://docs.ethereum.org) which is coming together nicely.

And please do install some of the following client software and get your block-chain synced up BEFORE the event:

EVERYONE SHOULD GET Mist (GUI Browser):

Download Mist Ethereum Wallet-0.5.1 (https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/tag/0.5.1)

If you want to get some ETH, the easier method is BTC->ETC exchange with ShapeShift (https://shapeshift.io/).

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And you may also want to get one or both of these official Homestead-compatible command-line clients too:

• geth-1.3.5 (https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.3.5) (go)

• eth-1.2.1 (https://github.com/ethereum/webthree-umbrella/releases/tag/v1.2.1) (C++)

Or unofficial Homestead-compatible clients:

• EthereumJ-1.2.0-RC (https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj/releases/tag/1.2.0-homestead-RC) (Java)

• Parity (https://ethcore.io/parity.html) (Rust) - don't have final Homestead version yet, but surely will have before Pi Day.

Also check out these websites:

Solidity (smart contract language) - http://solidity.readthedocs.org/

Website - https://ethereum.org/
Blog - https://blog.ethereum.org/
Reddit - http://reddit.com/r/ethereum/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/ethereumproject

Network visualization - http://ethernodes.org/network/1
Live block mining stats - https://ethstats.net/
Blockchain explorer - https://etherchain.org/
Price charts - https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/ethereum/usd

You'll also have the chance to meet:

16 Ethereans from "Vancouver Ethereum & Blockchain 2.0 Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Ethereum-Meetup/events/229380729/)"

A total of 18 people are expected to attend!

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