Buterin is a major player in this year's financial revolution.
Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and programmers around the world are undoubtedly encoding the next SuperCrypt at this very moment.
But the coolest thing for today is Vitalik Buterin.
Unlike most people at his age, he did not burn life. - By the way, Buryan is 23 years old, he invented a new kind of money, called the Etherium. Currently, he earned 28.5 billion dollars, and his bank is growing every day.
Ethereum is a crypto currency, such as bitcoin (or better bitcoin), consisting of digital tokens. As with all cryptoaccumulations, people primarily use it as a speculative investment asset.
Buterin was born in Russia and grew up in Canada, but now his home is Zug, Switzerland, where the "Efirium" Foundation is located. Buterin is the chief scientist and heads the research group of the Foundation.
For the crypto industry, Buterson's invention differs from bitcoin in several key aspects.
To begin with, Ethereum acts as a decentralized computing system for all kinds of applications, allowing you to write key data into a block-chain. (The use of blocking instead of the usual database is that no one can unilaterally make changes, consensus is established throughout the network.) The existence of Ethereum is largely responsible for the recent surge of ICOs, some of which have raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
And unlike the creator of the cue ball, an unknown person or a group of people calling themselves Satoshi Nakamoto - Buterin is a very involved person. He attends the conference and keeps in touch with like-minded people and the Ethereum holders on Twitter.
Not that Buterin was not mysterious and eccentric. Vitalik is a kind of prolific traveler who can not spend a long time sitting at home. (His biography on Twitter identifies his location as "Earth.") He supports the image of a smart guy who understands not only mathematics but also modern trends and oddities. Purses with cats and svitshots with unicorns are an integral part of his wardrobe.
Ironically, Ethereum attracts an impatient cohort of people who want to earn their fortunes, just as young investors who play on the stock market. For the most part, it resonates more with Wall Street than with Robin Hood. But there are exceptions - the US World Food Program uses a private version of Ethereum to distribute food vouchers to refugees.
Probably, Buterin will reach the desired in the end. Like its creator, the Etherium is still young, and the future of its blockbuster has a lot of possibilities.