Portrait of the person behind the virtual currency makes investors "rushed" the past few days

Ethereum is pouring rain on the global virtual currency market in a few seconds to $ 0.1 and then rebounding back to the $ 360 mark. Year to date, ethereum has increased by 4,100%.

Thanks to the high-application blockchain platform, copper ethereum has captured the attention and trust of many investors. But many may not know that this founder of money is only 23 years old.

Vitalik Buterin is a Russian programmer and cofounder of Bitcoin Magazine in 2011. He has over 90,000 followers on Twitter and is one of the few to receive the prestigious billionaire scholarship. Peter Thiel. Last year, he was named to Fortune magazine's 40 Most Influential People under 40s.

Buterin was born in Moscow and at the age of 6 his family moved to Canada. From a young age, he showed his talent for mathematical genius. For the first time, Buterin knew bitcoin was 17 years old by his father's introduction. Since then, he has been self-titled and has quickly become an expert in the field when it was still new.

Also in that year (2011), after dropping out of college to pursue her passion for virtual currency, Buterin joined up with a friend of hers to create Bitcoin. The magazine is now owned and operated by BTC Media.

In 2012, Buterin won the bronze medal in the International Informatics Olympiad. In 2013, he visited programmers in other countries - who also shared the same passion for code. Here, the 19-year-old programmer attended a virtual currency seminar organized by twins Winklevoss. Backchannel has reported that:

"The two DotC crisis veterans have compared virtual currency to the dawn of the Internet 2.0 era, display booths, Bitcoin ATMs and virtual wallets stored on hard drives. As a representative of Bitcoin Magazine, this event is the first time he has been looking at the real life bustling around a virtual currency economy. "

"That time, I really realized that these things were real and worth taking risks and jumping in. So I did," Buterin said.
Upon returning home in Toronto, Buterin began to build ethereum. He wrote several articles about his findings to find funding. In 2014 he enrolled at Waterloo University, but once again dropped out after receiving a $ 100,000 Fellowship from Peter Thiel. Since then, Buterin has dedicated all his time to creating ethereum.

Buterin opened the Ethereum Fund for research and in the same year began to open for sale. By mid-2015, the beta version of the ethereum platform is released.

Replying to Backchannel, Buterin said, "My first thought about ethereum was so good to be true, and the fact is that once it's come true, the ethereum's core idea is so good, basically. Absolutely fine ".

Currently ethereum is the second largest virtual currency after bitcoin among 100 other virtual currency on the market. Although late birth later but the momentum of ether is very large.