Who is Vitalik Buterin?

Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer best known as one of Ethereum's co-founders. In addition to co-founding the second-largest cryptocurrency by market size, Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine.

He is currently the leader of Ethereum's research team and a philanthropist, contributing millions of ether to numerous organizations, organizations, and foundations. In addition, in 2020, he invested $1.4 in ether to start producing the new Ethereum 2.0 network.

Going back in time, Buterin was born in 1994, in Russia, however, after some time he emigrated to Canada. His own father was a computer scientist, so he learned about Bitcoin when he was 17 years old.

Vitalik began his career as a writer for Bitcoin Weekly in 2011 and received five Bitcoin for one piece. However, the website was taken down. When that happened, Mihai Alise contacted Buterin with the intention of starting a new paper, which eventually resulted in the creation of the Bitcoin Magazine.

Buterin was still a student at the University of Waterloo, where he was also employed as an assistant to cryptographer Ian Goldberg at the time. Furthermore, as his engagement in the crypto world grew online and at conventions, Buterin was encouraged to meet others who wish to establish a Bitcoin alternative that extends its possibilities with a more comprehensive scripting language.

Following that, in his whitepaper that was released at the end of 2013, Buterin presented this option as a decentralized mining network and software development platform that permits the emergence of new coins and apps creating a common blockchain dubbed Ethereum.

The next year, he was given a $1000,00 award from the Thiel Fellowship for innovators under 20 to continue engaging with their inventions. Thus, Buterin left university and shifted his focus entirely to Ethereum. He made it his full-time job along with a team of Anthony Di Iorio, Joe Lubin, Gavin Wood, and Charles Hoskinson.

The team revealed the project in 2014 and the version that was publicly accessible came out in 2015. So, Vitalik Buterin and his team created Ethereum to be the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

The primary goal of Ethereum was to broaden the use cases of blockchain technology past transactions and asset storage. Thus, Ethereum's development has been committed to improving smart contracts and introducing new DApps that provide new financial goods and services.

Moreover, in addition to all his inventions, Buterin has also taken part in the creation of a whole new tech industry, as well as giving $763,970 worth of ETH to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and $2.4 million to the SENS Research Foundation. Additionally, Buterin took part as a developer for other open-source projects such as DarkWallet, Bitcoin Python libraries, and the cryptocurrency marketplace Agora.