Vitalik Buterin
The programmer who proposed Ethereum in 2013 and remains its most influential voice.
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The programmer who proposed Ethereum in 2013 and remains its most influential voice.
Vitalik Buterin is the Russian-born Canadian programmer who wrote the Ethereum whitepaper in 2013, when he was 19. Before that he co-founded Bitcoin Magazine. Ethereum launched in 2015 with a group of co-founders, including Gavin Wood and Charles Hoskinson.
He holds no official control over Ethereum, but his research and blog posts steer much of its direction, including the long road to proof of stake and The Merge.
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