He is 28. He first broke on to the crypto scene in 2013 when he wrote a white paper that led to the birth of the second most traded cryptocurrency in the world: ethereum. His net worth today is in excess of $800 million.
He made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list when he was 23. And TIME Magazine’s recent cover story calls him, “The Prince of Crypto.”
But the Russia-born Canadian computer programmer Vitalik Buterin hasn’t achieved what he really set out to do — make ethereum great.
“I would rather Ethereum offend some people than turn into something that stands for nothing,” Buterin told Time Magazine in a recent interview.
Buterin says the biggest divide between him and his fellow crypto crusaders at Ethereum is often, “that a lot of these people cared about making money. For me, that was totally not my goal.”
Buterin has wanted ethereum to go beyond people’s accepted imagination and become the token that enables fairer voting systems, urban planning, universal basic income and other public-works projects.
He is not a typical capitalist even though is one of the youngest crypto millionaires.
“If we don’t exercise our voice, the only things that get built are the things that are immediately profitable. And those are often far from what’s actually the best for the world,” Buterin added.
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