Vitalik Buterin
Russian-Canadian programmer who conceived Ethereum and co-founded Bitcoin Magazine.
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- Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer best known for co-founding Ethereum.
- He co-founded Bitcoin Magazine in 2011 and was a leading writer for it.
- He described Ethereum in a white paper in November 2013, and the network went live in July 2015.
- He left the University of Waterloo in 2014 with a Thiel Fellowship grant to work on Ethereum full-time.
- He writes long essays on his own blog.
Key facts
- Born
- 31 January 1994, Kolomna, Russia; moved to Canada at six1
- Known for
- Ethereum, first described in his white paper of November 20131
- Co-founded
- Bitcoin Magazine (2011)1
- Education
- University of Waterloo; left in 2014 with a US$100,000 Thiel Fellowship grant1
- Honours
- Bronze medal, International Olympiad in Informatics (2012); honorary doctorate, University of Basel (2018)1
- Also
- Editorial board of the journal Ledger, from 2016 to 20241
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