#EthereumTurns10 Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian programmer, founded Ethereum in collaboration with Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin, and Anthony Di Iorio.

Unlike Bitcoin, which focusses solely on digital transactions, Ethereum's main innovation was the introduction of smart contracts—self-executing contracts whose terms are directly written into lines of code.

Ethereum was launched with its own cryptocurrency, Ether (ETH), which is used to pay for network transactions and computations.$ETH #Write2Earn.