#babymarvinf9c Vitalik Buterin (born January 31, 1994) is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer, best known as the co-founder of Ethereum. Buterin participated in the construction of cryptocurrency in its early days and co-founded Bitcoin Magazine in 2011. In 2014, Buterin co-founded the Ethereum project with Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin. Buterin is a polyglot who speaks English, Russian, German, French, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Japanese, and Korean.
Early life and education
Buterin was born in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia. His father was a computer scientist. Buterin lived there until he was six years old, when his parents moved to Canada in search of better employment opportunities.
When Buterin was in the third grade of elementary school in Canada, he was placed in a class for gifted children. There, he was attracted to mathematics, programming and economics. Buterin then attended The Abelard School, a private high school in Toronto. At the age of 17, he learned about Bitcoin from his father.
Then in 2011, he co-founded (Bitcoin Magazine) with Mihai Alisie, Matthew N. Wright, Vladimir Marchenko, and Vicente S.
After high school, he attended the University of Waterloo, where he worked as a research assistant for cryptographer Ian Goldberg, co-founder of Off-the-Record Messaging and former chairman of the board of the Tor Project.
In 2013, he returned to Toronto and published the Ethereum white paper. He then dropped out of college and used the $100,000 Thiel Scholarship to work on Ethereum full-time. In 2014, he co-launched Ethereum with Gavin Wood.
On November 30, 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel.
On May 12, 2021, he donated $1.14 billion worth of cryptocurrencies Shiba Inu and Ethereum to India's COVID-19 relief fund.
Reason for invention
The reason is simple. When I was a kid, I was addicted to online games. My favorite character was the Warlock in World of Warcraft. However, after a game upgrade, the game developer Blizzard deleted one of Vitalik's favorite skills. I was so angry that I came up with an idea:
This experience made Vitalik deeply realize that on the Internet, all players are in a disadvantaged position, which is an inherent problem of all centralized services.
Since then, V God said goodbye to (World of Warcraft) and has been thinking about whether there is a way to break the centralized model. Until he was 17 years old, he discovered Bitcoin.
The decentralized nature of blockchain deeply attracted Vitalik, but as he learned more about it, he discovered the limitations of Bitcoin and the huge demand in the market. Therefore, he created Ethereum.
