They don&#x27;t mean fork ethereum and create a new currency. They mean create a new currency running on the ethereum platform. A bitcoin fork means you have to build up a group of miners sufficiently large and diverse enough that everyone trusts it. Making a currency on ethereum means it inherits the trust that ethereum has.<p>Here is the tutorial about creating your own coin on ethereum. It&#x27;s pretty short and interesting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ethereum.org&#x2F;token" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ethereum.org&#x2F;token</a><p>People like to think of ether as another cryptocurrency like bitcoin but the ethereum currency is intended to be more like a commodity that is used to fuel the platform that runs all sorts of stuff (including currencies).