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Who is Vitalik Buterin?
Vitaly Dmitriyevich “Vitalik” Buterin is a co-founder and inventor of Ethereum and one of the most famous people in the crypto world. He is a Russian-Canadian programmer who got involved with cryptocurrencies early in 2011 by co-founding Bitcoin Magazine when he was only 17 years old.
Crypto work
In 2013 he published a white paper proposing Ethereum and in 2014 got a grant of 100,000$ from Peter Thiel’s Foundation which made him drop out of university and focus on developing an open-source blockchain platform.
Vitalik Buterin wrote Ethereum’s white paper when he was only 19 years old.
In the years to come, he made his name as one of the most important persons in the Crypto world. He managed to learn Chinese which helped with Ethereum adoption and integration within China’s institutions. He is also a General Partner at Febushi Venture Capital, China’s first and most active blockchain company. Vitalik is active in his native country Russia where he made public speeches and talked with Vladimir Putin. He made deals with Yota Services to create Ethereum Russia, as well as Russia’s largest bank Sberbank that joined Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
He has a website on which you can find a wide range of topics concerning the Crypto ecosystem such as Economics, Blockchains, Math, Philosophy, etc.
“People are motivated not just by earning as much money as possible in the work and extracting enjoyment from their money in their family lives; even at work we are motivated by social status, honor, altruism, reciprocity, a feeling of contribution, different social conceptions of what is good and valuable, and much more.”
Vitalik Buterin, What motivate us? in Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
Vitalik Buterin’s Awards
- Thiel Fellowship Award, 2014
- World Technology Award in the IT Software Category, 2014
- Fortune 40 under 40 list
- Forbes 30 under 30 list
What is Vitalik Buterin IQ?
There are many rumors about Vitalik’s IQ. His somewhat strange behavior and unusual social skills give the impression that he is a different person. When that is combined with his extraordinary mind, it can be concluded that he is a person with an extremely high IQ. Even some websites claim that his IQ score is 257. Unfortunately, his IQ score has not been officially announced so we cannot be sure. According to Science Trends, the highest IQ ever recorded is 263. That would put Vitalik at the very top of the list of people with the highest IQ score ever recorded.
Last words
Vitalik Buterin is a true crypto OG and an acknowledged programmer who disrupts our world by leading the most influential blockchain network community in the world.
