BIOGRAPHY OF VITALIK BUTERIN

Vitalik Buterin- the Russian-Canadian programmer who received worldwide fame as a co-founder of Ethereum cryptocurrency and as one of the founders of the Bitcoin Magazine magazine, the Warld Technology Award-2014 Prize winner in the IT-Software category. In 2017, Bloomberg included him in the list of the most influential people of the Planet, he also entered the ratings of thirty specially promising young entrepreneurs to 30 years old (Forbes) and forty especially significant leaders up to 40 years old (Fortune), and was also named by a professional business professional newspaper "Vedomosti".

Childhood Future cryptocurrency genius was born on January 31, 1994 in Kolomna near Moscow. His father Dmitry and Mom Natalia studied at the time in one of the metropolitan universities at the Faculty of Computer Sciences. Grandma with grandfather helped to raise her son. Little Vitalik received its first computer as a gift from Dad at 4 years. Emm became his beloved toy. It is noteworthy that the most interesting occupation for him was not video games, but writing macros to Excel.

In 2000, their family emigrated to Toronto (according to some sources, he moved to Canada after a divorce with his wife only father and son). Many facts testified to the inherent predisposition of the boy to the exact sciences. So at the age of 6, he knew half the number of "PI" after the semicolon, invented, and created a fabulous universe, where rabbits lived in Excel. It managed in it and was regulated using strict formulas with graphs and instant calculations. In the 3rd class of school, he produced in the mind of mathematical operations with three-digit numbers much faster than peers, and he was transferred to the class for gifted children. At 10, he met C ++ programming language and began developing computer games. The last one called Tutorial was so difficult that only Vitalik himself and another user could win it.

Then he visited the private secondary school ABELARD SCHOOL in Toronto. Four years spent in her, he later called one of the most interesting and productive in his life. He liked practiced there is a close communication of students and teachers, the progressive form of submission of educational material, his in-depth study. In adulthood, he skeptically expressed in relation to traditional education, considering it more important to teach children to think and reason, and not remember certain facts or concepts. In 2009 and in 2012 he had two little sisters. The way to success in 2011, the young man first heard from Pope about digital currency - Bitcoin. Initially, he was skeptical - can virtual money have internal cost? But then he penetrated the revolutionary idea of ​​restructuring the entire economy, began to attend profile forums, study the mechanisms of work of Bitcoin projects, earn cryptocurrency with writing overview and analytical articles. He spent their first 8.5 bitcoins for the purchase of T-shirts.

In the same period, the Romanian programmer Mihai Alisi, familiar with the articles of Buderina, offered him to establish the thematic magazine Bitcoin Magazine together. They began to make it in electronic and in paper. The author of the majority of publications was Vitaly: a total of more than 400 articles wrote.

After school, he entered the University of Waterla, but left after the first course to engage in the blockchain. Father did not approve of his decision: he advised his son to receive a higher education that guaranteed him a subsequent device to work in any prestigious company, including Apple or Google. But Vitalik showed character and insisted on his own. In 2013, he went on a journey around the world, getting acquainted with the same enthusiasts, programmers engaged in the development of software products and the application of the blockchain not only for the field of finance, but also for other things. Exploring various cryptoprojects, he began to understand the limitations of Bitcoin. When he was in Israel, he came to the idea of ​​creating universal cryptoplatform.

At the end of the same year, he returned to Toronto and wrote a technical document called "White Paper", where the potential benefit of its concept of online services was revealed, which is based on smart contracts called Ethereum ("Ether"). Then he sent him fifteen buddies to obtain critical comments. They, in turn, showed the project with their familiar. After a couple of weeks, about 20 people expressed their readiness to take part in its implementation.

In particular, the Ethereum platform team served programmers Wood and Mihai Alyci, a supporter of decentralized technologies Anthony di Jorio, a scientist-mathematician Charles Hiskinson. The funds for the introduction of the project they were collected by crowway. In the same period, Biderin received a scholarship in the amount of $ 100,000, issued by young people who want to deal with their innovative ideas, and not spending time in colleges.

In 2014, he presented Ethereum to the public at the North American Conference BITK.