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Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin, 2016
Born (1994-01-31) January 31, 1994 (age 30)
Russia
Other namesВиталик Бутерин
CitizenshipRussia, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo (Dropped Out)
Known forEthereum, Bitcoin Magazine
AwardsThiel Fellowship, World Technology Award
Scientific career
FieldsDigital contracts, Digital currencies, Game Theory
Websiteabout.me/vitalik_buterin

Vitalik Buterin (Russian Language Виталик Бутерин) is a programmer & writer. He is primarily known as a co-founder of Ethereum, and as a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine.[2][3][4] In 2014, Buterin won the World Technology Award for the co-creation and invention of Ethereum.[5]

Personal life

Personal life

Buterin was born on Moscow, Russia and lived in the area until the age of six when his parents emigrated to Canada in search of better employment opportunities. While in third grade of elementary school in Canada, Buterin was placed into a class for gifted children and started to understand that he was drawn to math, programming, and economics. He also had the ability to add three digit numbers in his head at twice the speed of his peers.[6] He attended the University of Waterloo but dropped out to work on bitcoin full time.[7]

Buterin currently resides in Zug, Switzerland.[1] In 2014 Buterin received the Thiel Fellowship.[7]

Endeavors

Beginnings at Bitcoin Magazine

Buterin met a guy on a bitcoin chat forum trying to start a bitcoin blog. The owner offered five bitcoin (about $3.50) to anyone who would write an article for him. Buterin wrote for the site until its website shut down soon thereafter due to Bitcoin's lack of mainstream attention.[8]

In September of 2011, a man reached out to Buterin about a new publication called Bitcoin Magazine, in which Buterin would accept to be the first co-founder and contribute as a main writer.

In addition Buterin had written about bitcoin-related topics for other publications, including Bitcoin Weekly.[2][9] Bitcoin Magazine in 2012 later began publishing a print edition and has been referred to as the first serious publication dedicated to cryptocurrencies.[10] Bitcoin Magazine was then purchased by BTC Media, where Buterin continued to write until mid-2014.

In addition, he held a position on the editorial board of Ledger, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes full-length original research articles on the subjects of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.[11]

Ethereum

Main article: Ethereum

He is a co-creator and inventor of Ethereum, described as a “decentralized mining network and software development platform rolled into one” that facilitates the creation of new cryptocurrencies and programs that share a single block chain (a cryptographic transaction ledger).[12][13][14]

Open source software

Buterin has contributed as a developer to other open source software projects.[2] Some early examples are: Kryptokit, pybitcointools, multisig.info, and btckeysplit.[15] He also contributed to DarkWallet [16] by Cody Wilson, Bitcoin Python libraries,[17] and the cryptocurrency marketplace site Egora.[3]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Der digitale Lenin".
  2. ^ a b c Finley, Klint (27 January 2014). "Out in the open: Teenage hacker transforms web into one giant Bitcoin network". Wired. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b Melendez, Steven (10 February 2014). "Could this 20-Year-Old kid make Bitcoin obsolete?". Fast Company. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  4. ^ del Castillo, Michael (24 September 2014). "Dark wallet: A radical way to Bitcoin". The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  5. ^ a b "The 2014 World Technology Award Winners". World Technology Network. World Technology Network. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  6. ^ Peck, Morgen (2016-06-13). "The Uncanny Mind That Built Ethereum". Backchannel. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  7. ^ a b Elliot, Josh (July 2, 2014). "Why a 20-year-old Toronto drop-out accepted $100,000 to stay out of school". CTV. CTV. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Interview with Vitalik Buterin". https://www.youtube.com/watchv=EkeCapBOQQ0. Bitcorati Inc. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  9. ^ "About us – Bitcoin Magazine". Bitcoin Magazine. Coin Publishing Ltd. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  10. ^ Vigna, Paul; Casey, Michael J. "Community". The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging ... Macmillan Publishers. p. 88. ISBN 9781250065636.
  11. ^ "Ledger". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  12. ^ Aron, Jacob (6 February 2014). "Bitcoin: How its core technology will change the world". New Scientist. No. 2955. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  13. ^ Hajdarbegovic, Nermin (23 February 2014). "Ethereum launches 'Cryptocurrency 2.0' network". CoinDesk. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  14. ^ "Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum and The Decentralized Future". Future Thinkers Podcast. 2015-04-21. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  15. ^ Southurst, Jon (7 January 2014). "Roger Ver and Erik Voorhees Back Bitcoin Wallet KryptoKit". CoinDesk. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  16. ^ Kelly, Brian. "Smart Money, set it and forget it". The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About to Change the World. Wiley Publishing. p. 156. ISBN 978-1118963661.
  17. ^ Antonopoulos, Andreas M. (December 20, 2014). "#4. Keys, Addresses, and Wallets". Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies. O'Reilly Media. p. 82. ISBN 978-1449374044.
  18. ^ Finley, Klint (5 June 2014). "$100k Peter Thiel Fellowship Awarded to Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin". CoinDesk. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
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