This book is intended as a practical user guide for the cpp-ethereum software distribution.

cpp-ethereum is a distribution of software including a number of diverse tools. This book begins with the installation instructions, before proceeding to introductions, walk-throughs and references for the various tools that make up cpp-ethereum.

The full software suite of cpp-ethereum includes:

• eth (eth) The mainline CLI Ethereum client. Run it in the background and it will connect to the Ethereum network; you can mine, make transactions and inspect the blockchain.
• ethkey A key/wallet management tool for Ethereum keys. This lets you add, remove and change your keys as well as cold wallet device-friendly transaction inspection and signing.
• ethminer A standalone miner. This can be used to check how fast you can mine and will mine for you in concert with eth, geth and pyethereum.
• ethvm The Ethereum virtual machine emulator. You can use this to run EVM code.
• rlp An serialisation/deserialisation tool for the Recursive Length Prefix format.