Vitalik Butrin is the founder of Ethereum. He/Kloc-founded Ethereum at the age of 0/9, and was worth hundreds of millions in his twenties. If Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of the blockchain, then Butrin created the blockchain 2.0, which is known as the "V God" and is the spiritual leader of the cryptocurrency circle.
Butrin 1994 was born in Russia and immigrated to Canada with his father at the age of six. In the 1990s, when Butrin was born, the Internet became popular, and the optimism brought by technological leap spread all over the world. Many people believe that the Internet will make the world more open, more efficient and more equal, information exposure will become easier, and people in power will be more accountable.
However, technology has brought great progress, but also brought serious problems. Big companies and governments hold personal data. Electronic monitoring is everywhere, all the time. On the surface, social media has improved communication, but on a global scale, it has made the conceptual opposition more serious. For many people, Bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology represent another possibility of the Internet: decentralization and anonymity.
At the end of 20 13, 19-year-old Butrin published the white paper "Ethereum". Ethereum not only brings a new cryptocurrency-Ethereum, but also can be used to create various applications based on a common code language. Known as the "world computer" that never goes offline, Ethereum's vision is to return the control of data to its owner and the creative right to its author.
Six years after the public release of Ethereum, Ethereum has become the second highest cryptocurrency in the world, second only to Bitcoin. Around the Ethereum, a very large and rapidly developing ecosystem has been formed. It has applications in the fields of decentralized finance (De-Fi), social media, publishing and social organization.
Butrin's worldview is clear. He advocated decentralization, resisting censorship and voting in the square, involving democratic practice, Internet structure, commercial and non-profit organizations. His view of the world makes him know what community he should be in, what he should contact, what he should contribute and what he should avoid, which also makes his influence far beyond the cryptocurrency circle. In Butrin's own words, "My life is to be a bridge to everything. He is undoubtedly the leader of the Ethereum community. The Ethereum Foundation allocates tens of millions of dollars abroad every year, and some projects have gone beyond the field of cryptocurrency. His Twitter has 2.3 million fans. He participated in the emergence of the "radical market" theory and often participated in the discussion of public policies with think tanks and other opinion leaders.
Butrin believes that there are two different forces in the field of technology. One technical force will make the strong stronger and concentrate resources on the head, while another technical force may keep us free, anonymous, thinking and speaking. He mentioned the assertion of peter thiel (a famous investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley), "Artificial intelligence is productism; Encryption technology is liberalism. He also mentioned that in the future, one technology may not completely defeat another technology, but people who live in digital life should have freedom of choice.
For an investor, the most important thing is "the right order of magnitude", not "the right number of times". It is useless to have confidence or hold small positions.
-Soros
Is it possible to return the ownership of data to individuals while ensuring the efficiency of task execution? Is it possible for such a structure to solve some major problems of the current Internet? Can Ethereum undertake such a task? What will the next generation Internet look like? What will decentralization bring? What kind of world can be built with cryptocurrency and blockchain in the future?