Gavin Wood went on to found Polkadot, a blockchain network that enables transfers between blockchains.Vitalik Buterin still works on Ethereum.(Don’t miss the Vitalik Pic of the Day in the Milk Road newsletter.)īut the Ethereum project has several founders, including Charles Hoskinson, who went on to found IO Global, the company that’s developing the Cardano project.Įthereum’s founders are still leaders in the crypto space and other techy stuff. Vitalik Buterin is the most famous (and most memed) of Ethereum’s founders. There are plenty of other smart-contract networks out there now, but Ethereum led the way, and it’s still the biggest gorilla in the crypto zoo. By 2015, the Ethereum network was live and processing transactions.įast-forward to today, and Ethereum has become the most widely used smart-contract network amongst all blockchain networks. Vitalik Buterin - the Ethereum project’s best-known founder - published the Ethereum white paper in November of 2013, describing the soon-to-be network and how it would function.
Some refer to Ethereum as the World’s Computer.
It’s decentralized because the transactions the Ethereum network saves to the blockchain are validated and mirrored by thousands of computers around the world. Think of the Ethereum network as an operating system on the internet that can run programs. It’s like a bank statement, but for crypto - and it’s always up-to-date.Įach “block” in the “chain” contains transactions and data, and just like real chains, they’re linked.
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