Installing Ethereum and Solidity

In the previous chapter, we had an overview of all major concepts related to blockchains, particularly focusing on ones related to Ethereum and discussed the fundamentals related to working with blockchains in general. Ethereum-based blockchain solutions can be deployed to multiple networks. They can be deployed on public networks, test networks, or private networks. This chapter focuses on introducing and deploying Ethereum-based tools and utilities that are needed for building Ethereum-based solutions. There are plenty of tools in the Ethereum ecosystem and this chapter will focus on some of the most important and necessary tools. The tools will be deployed on Windows Server 2016 on Azure Cloud. However, they can be deployed on Linux, Mac, and any virtual machine or physical computer, as well. This will also be used as our development environment...