one of the following most famous figures in the world of cryptocurrency Vitalik Buterin, known as the founder and creator of Ethereum ETH/USDButerin also has experience Bitcoin BTC/USD,
Opening Day: buterin was Birth in Russia in 1994. His family moved to Canada when he was six years old.
Buterin excelled in school and was placed in an accelerated program for gifted students in the third grade. Buterin naturally excelled at math and programming. It has been reported that Buterin could add three-digit numbers in his head twice as fast as children his age at the time.
Worked in bitcoin magazines: In 2011, Buterin took A side job working for Bitcoin Weekly. As a writer, Buterin was paid 5 bitcoins for each article he wrote. At the time, it paid Buterin less than $5 for each article.
Bitcoin Magazine was founded by Buterin later in 2011 where he was the lead author.
Creation of Ethereum: Buterin launched a white paper for Ethereum in late 2013. The goal of Ethereum was to add scripting to make application development easier. Buterin wanted to make it possible to establish binding contracts.
Ethereum was officially launched on July 30, 2015. Buterin currently has 333,500 ETH in his primary wallet.
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Donate to charity: As the founder of a popular cryptocurrency, Buterin has amassed a huge following of people in the community.
As a result, Buterin is often the subject of donations from new cryptocurrencies, in the hope that Buterin will support them or that others will see the coins in his public wallet.
buterin was Donation 50 trillion Shiba Inu shib/usd, worth about $1.2 billion at the time. Buterin donated a Shiba Inu to the India COVID Relief Fund along with $2 million worth of Ethereum. The announcement that Buterin was donating the Shiba Inu rather than keeping it caused a drop in the cryptocurrency’s price.
Fake Death Rumor: In 2017, it was reported that Buterin had died in a car accident. The rumor came from 4Chan, a popular board that shares stories and is often the subject of internet trolls.
Ethereum lost nearly $4 billion in value on an internet rumor. Ethereum price recovered, but the impact on the price from the news of his death led to a look at just how important Buterin could be to Ethereum’s success.
The fall in the price of Ethereum has also led to comparisons between the anonymity of the founder of Bitcoin and the public founder of Ethereum.
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Original publication: September 5, 2021.