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Vitalik
Practical smart contract development with Solidity and Ethereum Founder
/emoji/twitter.icon The life of Vitalik Buterin
0 years old: Born to computer scientists parents in Russia
6 years old: Immigrated to Canada
9 years old: Recognized as gifted child by the government. Interested in mathematics, programming, and economics
17 years old: Learned about Bitcoin from his father (2011)
18 years old: Won a bronze medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics. Became a research assistant to cryptographer Ian Goldberg at the university
19 years old: Traveled to meet Bitcoiners around the world. Later published the Ethereum white paper
20 years old: Received a $100,000 grant from Peter Thiel and dropped out of university to work full-time on Ethereum
Stealing $100,000 from Peter Thiel
24 years old: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel's Faculty of Business and Economics
26 years old: Donated $1 billion worth of Shiba Inu and Ether cryptocurrencies to relief funds for the COVID-19 pandemic in India
27 years old: Currently, ETH has a market capitalization of $509B, making it the second most valuable cryptocurrency after BTC
@StartuptimezStartuptimez.icon November 24, 2021