Who is Vitalik Buterin?

Vitalik Buterin lacks the enigmatic mystery of the anonymous founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. But he’s rapidly become one of cryptocurrency’s leading personalities. He’s the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), the second most popular crypto. With a market capitalization of more than $155 billion, Ethereum is the biggest altcoin.

Who is Nikolai Buterin?

In 2014, Buterin was awarded the Thiel Fellowship, offering $100,000 for young people under the age of 23 to pursue interests outside of academia. The Russian-Canadian entrepreneur and the rest of the developing team launched Ethereum a year later.

Is Vitalik donating $10 million to Ukraine?

"Binance Announces $10 Million Donation to Ukraine: Ethereum Creator Vitalik Announces UkraineDAO". Tech Times. ^ Locke, Taylor (31 March 2022). "Ethereum's Russian-born cofounder has been quietly supporting a DAO that raised $8 million in crypto for Ukraine. His dad is even more involved". Fortune. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022.

Why did Vladimir Buterin not like Bitcoin?

Buterin wasn’t interested in Bitcoin the first time he heard it and regarded it as a currency with no intrinsic value as doomed to fail. The second time changed the world as Ethereum grew to become the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin.