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WHO IS VITALIC BUTERIN?

Vitalik Buterin was born in 1994 in Russia and moved to Canada at a young age.
He wasn’t an ordinary kid, by grade three, teachers noticed he had advanced math and programming talent. He could do complex calculations faster than most adults.

Vitalik excelled academically, especially in science and computer programming.
In 2012, he won a bronze medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics, one of the world’s toughest competitions for young programmers.

Soon after discovering Bitcoin, Vitalik became obsessed with blockchain’s potential.
He co-founded Bitcoin Magazine in 2012, becoming one of the earliest and most respected voices in the crypto community at only 17 years old.

Then at 19, Vitalik wrote the whitepaper for Ethereum. A platform not just for digital currency, but for smart contracts and decentralized apps.
In 2015, Ethereum officially launched, changing blockchain forever.

Today, Vitalik is seen as a visionary, someone shaping the future of the internet, finance, technology, and decentralization.