<p><img src='https://scrapbox.io/api/pages/nishio-en/nishio/icon' alt='nishio.icon' height="19.5"/>While Bitcoin, which went live earlier, in 2009, was designed to create &quot;money,&quot; Ethereum was designed to create computers.
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- Bitcoin is intended to implement an "electronic cash system," as the title of the 2008 paper suggests. The objective is focused on the currency function itself.
- Ethereum was designed in the 2013 White Paper to be the "next generation platform for distributed applications/smart contracts" or "world computer."
- The contrast of "making money vs. making computers" is generally accurate, as it succinctly illustrates the design motivation for both projects.
- Note that Ethereum also requires the native currency ETH, and Bitcoin has limited scripting capabilities, so it is not completely bifurcated.

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Bitcoin is money, Ethereum is a computer.