Cutting edge: An interview with Ethereum creators Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood
CoinTelegraph got a chance to catch up with Vitalik Buterin at CEBE 2014 in Vienna and Dr. Gavin Wood at Bitcoin2014 in Amsterdam. Buterin and Wood are both from Ethereum, which recently raised over 3,700 BTC in the first 12 hours of its Ether crowdsale. Ethereum is certainly one of the most exciting and highly-anticipated Crypto 2.0 projects right now, so we had to get the latest news and developments on the Ethereum platform, crypto 2.0, and their thoughts in general on everything from Bitcoin to Web 3.0. For the creators and leading lights of such an influential part of cryptocurrency....
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The latest episode of Cointelegraph's YouTube series tells the story of Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Polkadot and Kusama networks. Among the original founding fathers of Ethereum (ETH) is Gavin Wood, who joined a group led by Vitalik Buterin that set out to build Bitcoin's competition. Wood is the computer scientist who wrote the first smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain back in 2014. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Wood admitted that at the time, he just needed a job. A self-described "technologist at heart," he knew coding was his calling and....
Six months ago Ethereum was an ambitious white paper committed to a thorough re-imagining of the 'Bitcoin 2.0' space. With a sincere desire to mould the blockchain in his own image Vitalik Buterin, our resident tech. wizz, penned the concept. Since inception the project has benefited from some key strategic partnerships and an unparalleled press onslaught. Ethereum has successfully inspired technologists itching to take blockchains to the next level. Enter Dr. Gavin Wood. Open-source projects live and die by the developer talent they attract. Upon first meeting Gavin two things struck me:....
The inventor of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin and his father Dmitry “Dima” Buterin talked about the crypto market, volatility, and speculators. In an interview with Fortune Magazine Buterin claimed he is unbothered by ETH’s price downside action. Related Reading | Glassnode: $7B In Bitcoin Losses Realized In Just Three Days, Highest In BTC History Buterin and his […]
In a recent Realvision interview, the developer Gavin Wood explains how Polkadot reimagines the innovation ecosystem from the ground up. Wood also discusses how the Polkadot protocol is both similar but also different than Ethereum, the second-largest crypto asset by market valuation. Polkadot: A Bet Against Maximalism Innovation involves the pioneering and actualization of a creative new way of doing something. For famed blockchain programmer Gavin Wood, Polkadot is the platform that unlocks the potential of swifter blockchain innovation. By building a platform of platforms, or 0-layer....
Although it’s possible to draw comparisons between almost any two blockchain development platforms, comparing Ethereum with Polkadot is almost an inevitability. Not only on the technical level – they use a comparable architecture and proof-of-stake consensus to achieve scalability – but because Vitalik Buterin and Dr. Gavin Wood also have a shared history in Ethereum. Polkadot and Ethereum are Entering the Final Stretch of the Runway for Chain Supremacy The coming year is set to be a big one for both networks. Ethereum has been rolling out a series of improvements ahead....