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With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about Ethereum. If you have a question about ...

  • Specific issues with Ethereum, the smart contract enabled blockchain based consensus network, including Swarm and Whisper protocols
  • Specific issues with Solidity, Serpent programming languages and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
  • Specific issues with smart contracts, decentralized applications and the web 3.0
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... and not about ...

  • Recruiting or promoting a business or project
  • Questions that you should ask customer support about
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  • Questions that are primarily opinion-based
  • Questions with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long answer

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  1. Questions seeking debugging help ("why isn't this code working?") must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest code necessary to reproduce it in the question itself. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers. See: How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example.

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