In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Dmitrievich and the family name is Buterin.
Vitalik Buterin
Виталик Бутерин
Buterin in 2015
Born
Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin
(1994-01-31) 31 January 1994 (age 30)
Kolomna, Russia
Nationality
Montenegrin[1]
Education
University of Waterloo
Known for
Ethereum, Bitcoin Magazine
Awards
Thiel Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields
Digital contracts, digital currencies, game theory
Website
Personal website
Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin (Russian: Вита́лий Дми́триевич Буте́рин), better known as Vitalik Buterin (Russian: Вита́лик Буте́рин; born 31 January[2] 1994), is a Canadian computer programmer and co-founder of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.[3][4][5] In 2014, Buterin deployed the Ethereum blockchain with Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin.[6][7][8]
^"MFSS: Buterinu dodijeljeno državljanstvo Crne Gore". Vijesti. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
^Dmitry Buterin [@BlockGeekDima] (31 January 2022). "28 years ago, at 21, i became a father. What a beautiful messy complicated journey is being a parent! So much love, fear, conflict, joy, suffering, growth in that amazing human experience!! Happy birthday to a wonderful sensitive funny smart human @VitalikButerin 🥳🕺❤️🐥🔆" (Tweet). Retrieved 3 April 2023 – via Twitter.
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^"Ethereum Regains Title as Second Most Valuable Cryptocurrency Behind Bitcoin". Fortune. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
^"Ethereum Becoming More Than Crypto Coder Darling, Grayscale Says". Bloomberg.com. 4 December 2020. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
^Paumgarten, Nick (15 October 2018). "The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 9 January 2020.
Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin (Russian: Вита́лий Дми́триевич Буте́рин), better known as VitalikButerin (Russian: Вита́лик Буте́рин; born 31 January 1994)...
currencies. Bitcoin Magazine began publishing in 2012. It was co-founded by VitalikButerin, Mihai Alisie, Matthew N. Wright, Vladimir Marchenko, and Vicente S...
open-source software. Ethereum was conceived in 2013 by programmer VitalikButerin. Additional founders of Ethereum included Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson...
bitcoin, and who called him a fraud. Wright also served legal notices to VitalikButerin, the founder of the cryptocurrency Ethereum, who called Wright a fraud;...
reinvigorated by the addition to its Board of notable advisors such as VitalikButerin (Ethereum co-founder and inventor) and Jared Birchall (representing...
(DeFi) and NFT applications. The original Ethereum white paper by VitalikButerin in 2014 describes the Bitcoin protocol as a weak version of the smart...
which he has described as "one computer for the entire planet," with VitalikButerin, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio and Joseph Lubin during 2013–2014...
Kettering – Dayton, Ohio's leading philanthropist and patron of the arts VitalikButerin – co-founder of Ethereum. On 12 May 2021, he donated $1 billion worth...
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Technologies and the world's youngest self-made billionaire as of 2021 VitalikButerin (2014) – co-creator of Ethereum Stacey Ferreira (2015) – co-founder...
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Methuselah Foundation. Ethereum co-founder VitalikButerin donated $2.4 million in 2018. Then in 2020 VitalikButerin together with Sam Bankman-Fried and Haseeb...
receive ratings from a "diverse range of perspectives". Programmer VitalikButerin has described the open-source algorithm as "insanely complicated"....
Philanthropy supplemented this with a $7.7M grant over two years. In 2021, VitalikButerin donated several million dollars worth of Ethereum to MIRI. MIRI's approach...
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"Ethereum Creator, VitalikButerin, Donates Over $1B to India COVID Relief". TheStreet. 12 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021. "VitalikButerin Donates More than...
Bitcoin protocol in 2008. Although the phrase is typically attributed to VitalikButerin, the earliest public documented usage is a 2015 talk by Vlad Zamfir...
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Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Grimes, Stuart Russell, Jaan Tallinn, VitalikButerin, David Chalmers, Ray Kurzweil, Max Tegmark, Lex Fridman, Martin Rees...
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Finney Wei Dai Mark Karpelès Satoshi Nakamoto Charlie Shrem Nick Szabo VitalikButerin Ross Ulbricht Roger Ver Cody Wilson Cameron Winklevoss Tyler Winklevoss...
events AMAs - video calls with industry experts such as Elon Musk and VitalikButerin Summer of Making - a collaboration with GitHub, Adafruit & Arduino...
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