Vitalik's Ten-Year Journey of Growth with Ethereum

From a child prodigy to an idealist, Vitalik Buterin is almost the epitome of the 'chosen one'.

Playing with Excel at 4, coding at 8, creating games at 10, discovering Bitcoin at 17, and writing the Ethereum white paper at 19.

Today, he has long shed the 'genius' halo and become a low-key yet resolute technical evangelist.

The story of Ethereum began with an inspirational collision at a Bitcoin conference. Vitalik developed the vision, Lubin promoted the ecosystem, and Gavin Wood realized the technology. But soon after, the three parted ways due to ideological differences. Vitalik insisted on a non-profit approach, hoping to use technology to break centralized control; Lubin leaned towards commercialization; Wood left due to funding cuts.

In the following decade, Ethereum traversed several industry waves:

The 2017 ICO frenzy, the summer of DeFi in 2020, the NFT explosion in 2021, the transition to PoS in 2022, and the anticipated spot ETF applications in 2024… Each step profoundly influenced the direction of the entire crypto industry.

Today's Ethereum is not just a blockchain project; it is a 'value bridge' linking the real world and the crypto world. It carries countless innovations, applications, and ideas, reshaping the economic logic of the digital age.

And Vitalik has never been obsessed with the noise; he has always chosen to cultivate quietly. He embodies the spiritual core of 'there is no self everywhere, yet I exist everywhere'. #以太坊十周年