Vitalik Buterin

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Vitalik Buterin ( Russian Виталий Дмитриевич Бутерин, born January 31, 1994 in Kolomna , Russia ) is a Canadian-Russian software developer and author. Mostly he is known as the co-founder and conceptual inventor of Ethereum .

Life and education

Vitalik's parents are Dmitry Buterin ( computer scientist ) and Natalia Ameline (née Chistyakova, business analyst). Buterin lived until the age of six in Russia, then hiked his parents, in search of better job opportunities, according to Canada from. Buterin was transferred from the third grade of primary school to a class for gifted children. His ability to add three-digit numbers in his head twice as fast as his classmates had been noticed.

Buterin attended Abelard School, a private school in Toronto , for four years . In retrospect, he said that the time there was one of the most interesting and productive years of his life. The close relationship between students and teachers and the depth to which the material was taught led him to focus on learning as his "primary goal".

Commenting on his school experience, Buterin says: “Ultimately, education is much more than just learning individual facts by heart. Most importantly, learn to think for yourself, learn to argue and learn how to best learn. "

At the age of 17, Buterin learned details about how Bitcoin worked from his father .

In 2012 he received the bronze medal at the International Computer Science Olympiad.

In 2013 he traveled to various developers and programmers to talk to them about blockchain technology. He returned to Toronto later that year where he published a whitepaper outlining the conception of Ethereum.

Buterin first attended the University of Waterloo and dropped out of college in 2014 when he received a $ 100,000 grant from the Thiel Fellowship to realize his vision of Ethereum full-time.

In 2018, Buterin received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel .

Career

Author and co-founder of Bitcoin magazine

After multiple items from Buterin on the blog were published Bitcoin Weekly, he founded the Bitcoin Magazine, which in conjunction with Mihai Alisie crypto currencies specialized. Vitalik Buterin acted as the lead author.

Bitcoin Magazine began publishing a print edition in 2012 and was called the first serious publication on the topic of cryptocurrencies.

Ethereum development platform

Buterin is co-founder and inventor of Ethereum, a distributed software development platform that enables the creation of new crypto currencies and programs, which is one block chain share (a cryptographic transaction ledger).

Buterin first described Ethereum in a white paper in late 2013 . He believed that Bitcoin needed a scripting language for application development . When this project could not be realized on the Bitcoin blockchain, he proposed the development of a new platform with a more general scripting language. About the Ethereum project, Buterin said:

“I'm really grateful to have the opportunity to work in such an interesting and interdisciplinary area of ​​the industry where I can work with cryptologists , mathematicians, and economists in their fields to develop software and tools that tens of thousands of people already use affect all over the world. "

Awards

  • Thiel Fellowship Award 2014
  • World Technology Award in the IT software category, 2014
  • Fortune 40 under 40 list 2016
  • Forbes 30 under 30 list 2018, category Finance
  • Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rainer Kienböck: Ethereum: Vitalik Buterin - the cryptogeny behind the blockchain . ( futurezone.de [accessed on May 6, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c Ethereum inventor and child prodigy: Vitalik Buterin ⋆ Crypto-Games.de . In: Crypto Stars & Hypes . April 29, 2018 ( crypto-games.de [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Michael del Castillo: Dark Wallet: A Radical Way to Bitcoin . In: The New Yorker . September 24, 2013, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Vitalik Buterin: The cryptocurrency prophet . In: Financial Post . June 27, 2017 ( financialpost.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  5. ↑ a b c The Uncanny Mind That Built Ethereum . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Benjamin Snyder: Meet Vitalik Buterin, the 23-year-old founder of bitcoin rival ethereum . In: CNBC . June 23, 2017 ( cnbc.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  7. ↑ a b c d The Abelard School | Toronto Private School | Canada. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Results | IOI 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2018 (en-EN).
  9. ↑ Meet the Wunderkind developing the blockchain future of business . In: Canadian Business - Your Source For Business News . October 13, 2016 ( canadianbusiness.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  10. ↑ by the US billionaire Peter Thiel , see also the English Wikipedia Thiel Fellowship
  11. ^ Josh Elliott: Why a 20-year-old Toronto drop-out accepted $ 100,000 to stay out of school . In: CTVNews . July 2, 2014 ( ctvnews.ca [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Vitalik Buterin received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel . In: MoneyToday . November 30, 2018 ( moneytoday.ch [accessed December 1, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Bitcoin Magazine: About Bitcoin Magazine. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Who is Vitalik Buterin, The Mastermind Behind Ethereum? - Unblock . In: Unblock . January 29, 2018 ( unblock.net [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  15. ^ Brian Kelly: The Bitcoin Big Bang: How Alternative Currencies Are About to Change the World . John Wiley & Sons, 2014, ISBN 978-1-118-96366-1 ( google.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Bitcoin: How its core technology will change the world . In: New Scientist . ( newscientist.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Vitalik Buterin: What is Ethereum and How to Build a Decentralized Future . In: Future Thinkers Podcast . April 21, 2015 ( futurethinkers.org [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  18. ↑ a b Hafiz Rahman: Facilitating Online Contractual Agreements With Vitalik Buterin . In: Eyerys . June 30, 2017 ( eyerys.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  19. ↑ $ 100k Peter Thiel Fellowship Awarded to Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin . In: CoinDesk . June 5, 2014 ( coindesk.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  20. ↑ The 2014 World Technology Award Winners. In: WTN.net. Retrieved May 25, 2020 (English).
  21. ↑ 40 Under 40: The Most Influential Young People in Business 2017 . In: Fortune . August 17, 2017 ( fortune.com [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  22. ↑ 30 Under 30 2018. In: Forbes. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Dies academicus of the University of Basel: Honorary doctorates for Hansjörg Schneider and Vitalik Buterin. Retrieved November 30, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).

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personal data
SURNAME Buterin, Vitalik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Russian software developer and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolomna , Russia