Vitalik Buterin Wins the 2014 World Technology Network Award

Vitalik Buterin Wins the 2014 World Technology Network Award

Vitalik Buterin has recently won the World Technology Network award for IT software and joins the ranks of Elon Musk, Nick Woodman, Levar Burton, and Palmer Luckey, who also received awards this year. He won the award for being the co-creator & inventor, Ethereum. Co-Founder, Bitcoin magazine, but I felt this doesn't really sum up how I've seen him....


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