Who is Vitalik Buterin?

Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer especially known as a co-founder of Ethereum and as a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. ETH aims to build a next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform that enables people to build any sort of decentralized application on top of a blockchain that can be perceived.

His Life

Vitalik Buterin was born on January 31, 1994, in Kolomna, Russia. When he was six, he moved to Canada with his parents. In the third grade, his intelligence was discovered and he entered a class for gifted children. Especially the addition of three-digit numbers in the head, which he could accomplish twice as fast as his classmates, made his teachers sit up and take notice.

Vitalik Buterin attended a private school in Toronto for four years. In the year 2012, he won the bronze medal at the international computer science Olympiad with 224 points. He graduated from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2014, to fully concentrate on his Ethereum project. This was made possible by a scholarship of $100,000 from the Thiel Fellowship.

His work in the cryptocurrency world

When he was 17 years old, his father told him how Bitcoin works. In 2012, he co-founded Bitcoin Magazine, the first reputable print edition of cryptocurrencies where he also worked as a writer.

In 2013, he traveled around the world to meet and learn from various blockchain developers and programmers. When he returned to Toronto in the same year, he began working on a white paper containing the concepts that were later implemented in the blockchain project Ethereum.

On July 30, 2015, the primary publicly-available variant of Ethereum named ‘Frontier’ was delivered. It was an experiment launch, as it arrived in a ‘bare bones’ arrangement with only a command line, it still allowed coders to live examination of the environment by developing decentralized apps. Once the platform was considered durable by both the developers and auditors it moved to a ‘Homestead’ variant.

The migration occurred on March 14, 2016, when the Ethereum chain noticed its initial standard production announcement. Its appearance started to show the next generation of the Blockchain technology, it provided more autonomy to developers and it was simpler to use. There were also many technological developments arising.

Fake news about his death

On June 25, 2017, a fake story alleging that Vitalik Buterin died in a car crash, prompted Ether to drop $4 bln in market price. The myth arose from 4Chan, an unidentified image-board, and a trolls’ heaven. Although Ethereum recovered all of the lost money, the lie has emphasized the value of Vitalik Buterin to the platform and the entire cryptocurrency and Blockchain world.

Vitalik Buterin enjoys a high reputation in the crypto scene and is one of the top 10 most influential people in the cryptocurrency world. He is generally scientifically active and regularly provides sophisticated contributions to various topics, which he publishes, among others, on his homepage. Buterin is a welcome guest at conferences and major events.

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