Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer who is best known as the co-founder of Ethereum, a decentralized platform for building decentralized applications and smart contracts. He was born on January 31, 1994, in Kolomna, Russia, and raised in Canada. Buterin has been interested in cryptography and decentralized systems since he was a teenager, and in 2013, he co-founded the Bitcoin Magazine. Later that year, he began working on Ethereum, which launched in 2015 and quickly became one of the most well-known and widely used platforms in the cryptocurrency world. Buterin is highly regarded in the blockchain community for his visionary ideas and technical expertise, and he has been recognized with numerous awards and accolades, including being named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018. He continues to work on Ethereum and other blockchain-related projects, and is a prominent advocate for decentralization and the potential of blockchain technology to transform society.