Who is Vitalik Buterin and why should you care?

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 Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin?

Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin ( Russian: Вита́лий Дми́триевич Буте́рин ), better known as Vitalik Buterin (Russian: Вита́лик Буте́рин, born 31 January 1994), is a Russian-Canadian computer programmer, and founder of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.

Did Vitalik Buterin donate $2 million to the Methuselah Foundation?

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What makes Vitalik so special?

What makes Vitalik so special, though, is that he is a builder’s builder. No one person could’ve possibly come up with all of the uses for Ethereum, but it did take one person’s idea to get it started. From there, a new world has opened up, and given rise to new ways of leveraging blockchain technology —some of which I’ve invested in.