Ein junger, dünner Mann mit einem Mikrofon in der Hand sitzt in einem Konferenzraum im Moskauer Skolkowo, mehrere hundert Menschen schauen ihm zu. Alle seine Gesten und seine Mimik scheinen Unbeholfenheit zu verraten.
“We want to understand how such 36 billion dollars suddenly arise, where does it come from?I guess it was all due to your childhood.You end the kindergarten and went to Canada - how did you get there? ”Asks the moderator.
"With mom and dad, in a plane, I think it was a Lufthansa machine," he replies.
"What had happened?" - The moderator doesn't let up.
"Well ... the flight took 10 - 12 hours, I think everything was fine," jokes the young man.
Dies ist ein Auszug aus einem Gespräch von 2017 mit Vitalik Buterin, 27, einem der Schöpfer der zweitbeliebtesten Kryptowährung und des Blockchain-Systems Ethereum. Im Jahr 2017 – das zeigt das Video – ist er 23 Jahre alt. Vier Jahre später wird Forbes ihn als den jüngsten Krypto-Milliardär der Welt bezeichnen.
Childhood and 400 articles about blockchain
Vitalik was born in 1994 in the small town of Kolomna, 100 km from Moscow.At the age of six, he moved to Canada with his parents.As a child, he took piano lessons at the request of his parents and went skiing - but such activities were not according to his taste.Buterin began to be interested in programming and at the age of ten he developed his own small games.
“I started programming at the age of five or six.But when I started to develop all sorts of games at the age of ten and the age of twelve.I had an old Windows 95 computer and a book about programming in C ++ with Allegro
.From then on everything went very quickly, ”recalls in an interview with XAKEP.RU.
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In school, but the button tried to get only one.“I only remember that quite a few people, when I was in the fifth or sixth grade, always talked about me as if I were a kind of math genius.And there were just so many moments when I realized: Okay, why can't I just be like a normal person and have a 75 percent average like everyone else, ”said Buterin in an interview with WIRED.
Vitalik learned about Bitcoin in 2011 from his father, Dmitrij, an computer scientist.At that time he had already taken part in IT Olympiads and achieved fourth place in one of them.“My father told me that there is such an interesting currency that is not checked by any government or central bank.At first I thought: how can such a system exist if there are only numbers in a computer?What value can it have? 'Three weeks later I came across Bitcoin on the Internet and decided to fathom the topic more deeply, ”recalls Vitalik.
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Soon the young programmer to write articles about Bitcoin and blockchain for thematic forums and websites.He was a co-founder of a magazine called Bitcoin Magazine in 2011: “I wrote in various specialist forums until I found a guy who started paying myself in bitcoins for my articles in his blog
. > Die Sache ist die, dass Bitcoin all die Interessen vereint, die ich bereits hatte – Mathematik, Informatik, Programmieren, Kryptographie“, sagte Buterin in einem Interview mit dem YouTube-Kanal für Kryptowährungen Abra.
Blockchain instead of university education
Buterin had the idea for Ethereum in 2013-at the same time a blockchain platform and a cryptocurrency.The year before, he managed to register himself at the University of Waterloo in Canada, but broke off to work on crypto projects.
“I broke off my studies in 2012 and traveled to different locations with Bitcoin projects.After all, I made it to Israel.Many people there focused on the concept of using blockchain for things other than money.The developers proposed to create their own protocols for every blockchain application, i.e. for special types of transactions.I quickly realized that this is very restrictive, ”Vitalik told Rusbase.He had the idea of creating a single platform with his own programming language on which any application can be written.
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Er arbeitete die Strategie des Projekts aus und schickte sie an 15 Freunde, um deren Meinung zu erfahren, und diese schickten sie an ihre Freunde. Zwei Wochen später meldeten sich etwa 20 Personen freiwillig, um Buterin bei dem Projekt zu helfen.
Vitalik collected the start -up capital through crowdfunding: People sent a Bitcoin in exchange for 2,000 ether, the future currency of Ethereum - in the end, butterin collected 30,000 bitcoins, and the 2013 exchange rate was $ 18.5 million.
In 2014 he won the World Technology Awards, whose nominated parties also included Mark Zuckerberg.In the same year, Vitalik received a grant of $ 100,000 from the foundation of the PayPal founder Peter Thiel.
“My greatest fear was that if I didn't publish anything, someone would get on it myself and nobody would find out that I had the idea for it first.It is much more important for me to be the first than earning money with it, ”said Buterin.
The ups and downs of Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin und drei weitere Mitbegründer, Mihai Alisie, Anthony Di Iorio und Charles Hoskinson, starteten Ethereum im Juli 2015.
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Ethereum is essentially a uniform system in which humans can create applications and perform transactions without an intermediary.SoB. Cryptocurrency wallets are created and documents are uploaded on a system-based basis that are not lost and cannot be edited on one side.You can also create applications for the sale or purchase of financial investments, games, your own social networks, systems for carrying out elections in which the voices cannot be manipulated, etc.
The Ethers could only be bought for bitcoins - for a Bitcoin you got 2,000 ether.After 42 trading days, Ethers worth 31,000 bitcoins or $ 18.4 million were sold, according to the EYERYS website.
At the time of the introduction, $ 2.90 was worth;A year later it was 10-11, two years later, in 2017, the course fluctuated between $ 160 and $ 271.
Großunternehmen wie IBM, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan und andere begannen mit dem System zu kooperieren. Im März 2016 erreichte die Kapitalisierung des Projekts 1 Milliarde US-Dollar. Im selben Jahr schuf der Programmierer Christoph Jentzsch auf Basis der Ethereum-Plattform das Blockchain-Projekt DecentralizedAutonomous Organization (DAO), einen autonomen Investmentfonds, der 150 Millionen Dollar akquirierte.
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A hacker found a loophole in the source code of the fund and steel coins worth around $ 44 million.The hacker was never found, and Ethereum Frore all stolen ether with a subsequent rollback from the blockchain up to the hack - which in fact devalued the stolen coins.The DAO has been removed from the system, but the Bauterin rewritten the source code of the blockchain to return the Ethers to the investor and restarted the system.
All users of the updated system received "new" Ethers - copies of the old ones, but they work with the new software.Some of the users were dissatisfied with this decision - in their opinion, Dao was to blame and not the hacker who simply exploited a gap in the fund's source code.In protest, they created their own cryptocurrency Ethereum Classic, based on the old version of Buterins Blockchain.It still exists today-its price was $ 92 at the time of the publication of this article.
In June 2017, an anonymous user posted 4chan about butterins and that anonymous insiders would be sold.The course a lot within an hour from 304 to $ 284.A few hours later, Buterin posted a photo of one of the last transactions in his system on his Twitter account, which the ether achieved its original value again.
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Wealth and future plans
In his free time, but the button likes to travel and swim.“I spend my free time to learn something new or to do crazy things, such as improving my [level in] German.One of the easier things is for walking, ”said Vitalik.
In 2017, butterin donated 2.4 million US dollars to the Sens Research Foundation, a Foundation for Anti-Aging Research.
At the end of April 2021, the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced the sale of Ethereum blockchain bonds worth 100 million euros.As a result, the price per ether made from 2,500 to $ 3,400.Vitalik owned 333,520 ether, which is now worth $ 1.09 billion, reported to the USA and called him the youngest crypto billionaire in the world.
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Buterin also has a huge amount of other cryptoval, which can be recognized by its philanthropic activity.For example, on May 14, 2021, but the Bauterin donated 1.14 billion US dollars in the form of various coins, including 50.7 trillion "Meme Coins" Shiba Inu to the India Covid Crypto Relief Fund Fight against the Coronavirus, writes.
Buterin believes that blockchain can write history and thanks to the technology, many countries will be able to improve their quality of life.“In my opinion, cryptocurrency is also a kind of moral project.If you only take care of the capitalization and the creation of an expensive token, the project will not be successful in the long run.There have been many projects that have received hundreds of millions of dollars from risk capital funds.But you can't really buy a soul for hundreds of millions of dollars, ”Vitalik argued in an interview with Inc.Russia.
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