My buddy, Mark and I have been hanging out on supper dates for the past 18 years. Sometimes he pays first and I forget to pay him back. The reverse happens at other times. We don't trust each other to maintain an Excel file to capture the records. I mean, look, what if Mark doctors the Excel file when I am not looking. This is obviously a great candidate for blockchain - now our records becomes immutable and the history of our misspending are forever etched in the blockchain.

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Mahesh Murthy has an amazing tutorial to setup an Ethereum environment to develop Truffle Dapps on the Ethereum blockchain. You can read it here. Part 1 of the tutorial explains the architecture of the Ethereum platforms and lets you execute a smart contract via a simple web page that runs locally. The blockchain runs locally using testrpc.