Crypto Stories: Vitalik Buterin talks creating Ethereum in previously unrelea...

Crypto Stories: Vitalik Buterin talks creating Ethereum in previously unrelea...

Part of Cointelegraph's Crypto Stories on YouTube, the series highlights the power of crypto to change the lives of people all over the world. The latest episode of Cointelegraph's Crypto Stories featured never-before-heard audio from an exclusive interview with Vitalik Buterin, recorded at a conference in Hong Kong in 2014. In this animated short, viewers can learn about the origin story of Ethereum (ETH), the world'd second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, straight from the founder himself.Back in 2011, while Buterin was a student at the University of Waterloo, he first....


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