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 Installation
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-Requirements: geth (0.9.38), solc (0.9.23), node (0.12.2) and npm
+Requirements: geth (1.0.0), solc (0.9.23), node (0.12.2) and npm
 
 For specs: pyethereum, ethertdd.py