Vitalik Buterin Awarded Thiel Fellowship
Peter Thiel, a notable entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has today announced the 2014 class of new Thiel Fellows, the fourth group of young entrepreneurs that have been awarded Thiel Fellowships. And one of those awarded is very much known in the bitcoin community, Vitalik Buterin of Toronto, Canada. Buterin is now working full-time on developing Ethereum, a platform and coding language for use in peer-to-peer concepts. The Thiel fellows will be receiving support that will help bring their "innovative scientific and technical projects to life, learn entrepreneurship from the ground up,....
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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....
PayPal co-founder and noted VC investor Peter Thiel announced the latest class of Thiel Fellows today, with Ethereum co-creator and Bitcoin Magazine co-founder Vitalik Buterin being named as one of the new set. The 20-year-old Toronto native, along with 19 other fellows, will receive $100,000 over the next two years to use toward current and future projects. Noting that today's innovators face more challenges than ever given current global economic issues, Thiel stressed the need for his programme while expressing optimism about what this year's class could achieve: "We hope the 2014 Thiel....
In a recent blog post to GavinTech, Gavin Andresen admitted that he has recently been thinking about ethereum "a bit." Ethereum is a Bitcoin 2.0 project that is creating "a revolutionary new platform for applications." Vitalik Buterin, one of ethereum's founders, was recently awarded the Thiel Fellowship, a $100,000 fellowship awarded to 20 bright entrepreneurs around the world under the age of 20. Gavin revealed that he thinks some parts of ethereum, such as the new proof-of-work and new currency, are needlessly re-engineered while admitting particular interest in the development of smart....
The Thiel Foundation has announced its 2016 Fellows with a new class of 29 people focusing on technology and software development. Thiel Fellows receive $100,000 to work on new projects that advance technology. A member of the cryptocurrency community now has become a Thiel Fellow. Knoxville, IL resident Joey Krug, core developer from the Augur....
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....