Vitalik Buterin Wins 2014 World Technology Award, Denounces Bitcoin Maximalism
Vitalik Buterin won the 2014 World Technology Award for the category "IT Software," beating Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Award recognizes Buterin's leading role in the design and development of Bitcoin 2.0 platform Ethereum. Earlier this year Buterin, featured in The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin documentary, won the prestigious Thiel Fellowship for developing Ethereum, a peer-to-peer network that any application can use and access and a mobile and desktop client to allow people to build advanced decentralized applications and use them in a platform that is as convenient as a web....
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Vitalik Buterin has beaten Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to win the World Technology Network (WTN) award for IT software. Buterin, the developer of crypto 2.0 platform Ethereum and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, received the honour at the WTN's 2014 summit held at the Time & Life building in New York City. The event was organised in association with Fortune and Time. In addition to Ethereum, Buterin has been involved in a number of crypto projects over the years, including Dark Wallet and KryptoKit. This is not the first time the youthful developer has been rewarded for his efforts, earlier....
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 participate in the community. I've made a list of links to his work that I feel strongly about and some other tidbits that may not be known by those in the Bitcoin community. In the end, Buterin is the least competitive person I know. He is an....
There has been a recent discussion about Bitcoin Maximalism lately, most likely due to the sudden rise of Ethereum. This conversation is not new dialogue but typically arises when there is a competitor at Bitcoin’s heels. Many people have written about this subject such as Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Krawisz, and just recently Hivemind creator Paul Sztorc.....
Bitcoin Magazine would like to congratulate former Lead Writer and now Editorial Board Member, Vitalik Buterin, on his receipt of thePeter Thiel Fellowship Award. Vitalik is the mastermind behind the Ethereum Project. As a 20 year old, his development experience is extensive with involvement in Bitcoin, KryptoKit, and the Dark Wallet. Through the Peter Thiel Fellowship program, Vitalik will receive a grant of $100k to span over two years so he can focus full time on the Ethereum project and further decentralized developments. In addition to funding, all fellows will receive guidance on....
Vitalik Buterin is a programmer and writer. He founded Ethereum, a decentralized web 3.0 publishing platform, for which he won the World Technology Award in 2014. In this article, he explores the differences between public and private blockchains and the pros and cons of both. Over the last year, the concept of 'private blockchains' has become very popular in the broader blockchain technology discussion. Essentially, instead of having a fully public and uncontrolled network and state machine secured by cryptoeconomics (eg proof-of-work, proof-of-stake), it is also possible to create a....