Vitalik (Vitaliy Dmitrievich) Buterin (born January 31, 1994 , Kolomna , Russia ) is a Canadian-Russian programmer, co-founder and former editor of the Bitcoin Magazine print magazine, co-founder of the Ethereum project, for which he won in 2014 World Technology Award [2] bypassing Mark Zuckerberg and other applicants. He also won a $ 100,000 grant from Thiel Fellowship for the development of the project [2] .
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Biography
Born in Russia, raised in Canada , where he moved with his parents at the age of six, speaks Russian, English and Chinese [3] . He lived for three years in Zug , Switzerland, and in 2017 he moved to Singapore [4] . He quit his studies at the University of Waterloo to work on blockchain projects.
Vitalik’s father, Dmitry, an IT specialist, encouraged him to write video games from the age of ten. He introduced his son to the ideas of blockchain and cryptocurrencies [5] . Vitalik Buterin became interested in bitcoin in 2011, and in the same year became a co-founder of the Bitcoin Magazine [6] [7] [8] . In 2012, Bitcoin Magazine began to be released as a print publication and became the first major print publication on this subject. He is also on the editorial board of the first peer-reviewed scientific journal Ledger [9] , devoted to cryptocurrencies and related topics.
Prior to working on Ethereum, he also worked on various open source projects related to Bitcoin [10] .
In May 2016, he came to Russia - for the first time since his move with his parents to Canada in 2001. During the visit, he met with Russian ministers and representatives of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation [11] .
In 2017, Vitalik Buterin entered the top 10 of the rating “40 most influential young people under 40” according to Fortune magazine [12] [13] , was included in the ranking of 600 brightest people under 30 years of Forbes magazine [14] , the newspaper “ Vedomosti ”recognized him as a professional of the year [15] .
On November 30, 2018, Vitalik Buterin received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel [16] [17] . Vitalik received recognition from the Faculty of Business and Economics for his work on developing the blockchain at Dies Academicus - the annual celebration of the founding of the university.
Charity
On February 10, 2018, Buterin donated 100 ETH to the non-profit organization Internet Archive. At the time of completion of the transaction, the donation was about $ 85,000 . This amount will double since the Pineapple Fund recently announced that it will double all donations for the Internet Archive to $ 1 million [18] .
Research
Human life extension
Buterin donated $ 2.4 million to the SENS Research Foundation in 2018 for research in the field of biotechnology rejuvenation and prolongation of human life [19] .
See also
- Russians in Canada
- is a co-founder of Ethereum .
Notes
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin
- ↑ 1 2 Vitalik Buterin defeated Zuckerberg - Bit • News
- ↑ Alex Fork. Vitalik Buterin interview with Alex Fork. Ethereum (April 5, 2016). Date of treatment July 20, 2017.
- ↑ Blockchain Guru Hits Singapore. finews.asia 4 May 2017 http://www.finews.asia/finance/24514-blockchain-fintech-financial-technology-singapore
- ↑ How a half-educated student with Russian roots created a competitor to Bitcoin “ Vedomosti ”, 04/26/2018
- ↑ 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. 155. - ISBN 978-1118963661 .
- ↑ Finley, Klint Out in the open: Teenage hacker transforms web into one giant Bitcoin network . Wired (January 27, 2014). Date of treatment February 7, 2014.
- ↑ del Castillo, Michael Dark wallet: A radical way to Bitcoin (September 24, 2014). Date of treatment January 24, 2014.
- ↑ Ledger . Date of treatment February 4, 2016.
- ↑ Bitcoin: an introduction for developers . coinspot.io. Date of treatment July 20, 2017.
- ↑ Siranush Sharoyan, Elena Tofanyuk. The ether star: how a programmer from Russia plans a blockchain revolution . RBC (June 15, 2016). Date of treatment January 28, 2018.
- ↑ Vitalik Buterin (Eng.) , Fortune (August 17, 2017). Date of treatment October 12, 2017.
- ↑ Vitalik Buterin and Brian Armstrong entered the top 10 most influential young people according to Fortune (Russian) , CoinMarket.News (August 19, 2017). Date of treatment October 12, 2017.
- ↑ 30 UNDER 30 2018: Youngest
- ↑ Professional of the Year - the creator of the Ethereum cryptocurrency Vitalik Buterin of Vedomosti , 12/28/2017
- ↑ Vitalik Buterin was awarded a doctorate . The Blockchain Journal.
- ↑ Ethereum Creator Buterin Awarded Honorary Doctorate . CoinDesk.
- ↑ Vitalik Buterin donated 100ETH to Internet Archive (Rus.) , Ruscoins.info (February 19, 2018). Date of treatment June 18, 2018.
- ↑ “King of Ethereum” Vitalik Buterin: the best thing to donate money to is the fight against aging . KP (March 20, 2018). Date of treatment March 21, 2018.
Links
- Vitalik Buterin on Twitter
- Speech at Ethereum Russia 2016 in Skolkovo (May 16, 2016, Hypercube )
- Open lecture at Digital October (April 11, 2017)
- Speech at the SPIEF 2017 (June 2, 2017)