Vitalik Buterin is a computer programmer who famous crypto legend after creating Ethereum, which is among the most popular cryptocurrencies and blockchain platforms. He was born on January 31, 1994, in Russia, but moved to Canada at age six with his family. He was very intelligent at computers and math from childhood.
Vitalik initially became interested in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in 2011. He started writing about it and helped establish a website called Bitcoin Magazine. Once he learned more, he thought Bitcoin was a bit restrictive and that he needed to create something better—something that would be able to do more than just send money.
In 2013, at the age of just 19, Vitalik wrote an account of his vision for a new platform, Ethereum. The platform would enable people to build all kinds of applications using smart contracts—programs that run on the blockchain without any middleman. Ethereum would not be currency, but a whole platform for building different services.
In 2014, he and a team of programmers raised money from people all over the world to start working on Ethereum. It went live in July 2015. Since then, Ethereum has become one of the biggest platforms in the world for applications like NFTs, DeFi (decentralized finance), etc.
Vitalik is intelligent, a thinker, and not interested in money or fame. He still works on making Ethereum better and helped create its massive 2022 upgrade, which made it consume much less energy.
Vitalik is today one of the most highly regarded people in the crypto universe. His ideas revolutionized the way everyone thinks about what blockchain can do—not only for money, but for technology and society too.
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