Vitalik Buterin News and Articles

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in his speech during Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC), held in Paris that Ethereum aims to progress beyond the DeFi space. The 4th EthCC began on July 20 and will end on July 22. Buterin referred to DeFi and cryptocurrencies as the most interesting part...

A documentary movie “Ethereum: The Infinite Garden” will be released. The fundraising started on July 14 is completed. Crowdfunding site Mirror managed the process. Initially, it was planned to raise 750 Ethers. The results surpassed expectations. When the fundraising was over on July 16, the...

Ethereum co-founder, the youngest crypto billionaire Vitalik Buterin revealed that he made an investment of $25.000 in Dogecoin in 2016, and in 2020 he sold the coins for $4.3 M. This means that in 3 years the capital raised by around 8000%. Vitalik Butein talked about the deal in terms of the Lex...

Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract now holds over 5 million Eth worth around $13.6 B. The Ethereum environment is in the process of moving from a Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism to a Proof-of-Stake as a step of the system's development. The difference between these two is that PoW requires a lot of...

The youngest crypto billionaire, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin issued a paper with the title "The Limits to Blockchain Scalability". There he wrote about Elon Musk's announcement that Dogecoin can speed up its block time 10X, boost block size 10X and reduce fee 100X. Vitalik...

On May 20 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin gave an interview to CNN business. Talking about the recent crash in the crypto market, Buterin said it didn't surprise him. According to him, cryptocurrencies are in a bubble, and it's difficult to guess when they will rise. Buterin said it can happen...

The youngest billionaire in the crypto industry Vitalik Buterin has burned 90% of his Shiba Inu owning, valued at $6.7 B received by the coin's developers. Data from Etherscan shows that the transaction was done on May 16. In an attached note Vitalik Buterin gave the motive of his move. He said it...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold a significant part of his meme coins directing the sum to different contribution funds. Among his purchases was selling Shiba Inu tokens (SHIBs) worth $1.2 B and sending the money to a charity fund for India's current fight to overcome COVID. When Shiba...

The largest altcoin ether (ETH) is trading at $ 3178 on Monday, May 3. Crypto capitalization per day increased by 8.55% to $ 367.373 billion. The rise in the cost of ether led to the fact that one of the leaders of the Ethereum development team, Vitalik Buterin, became the most youthful billionaire...

On March 23, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin issued a blog post that covers various aspects of the crypto industry. In the blog post, Buterin also referred to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) saying they can be used for different social objectives like charities or financing common goods. He finds...

According to Vitalik Buterin, shortly, his team will be able to significantly increase the bandwidth of Ethereum. The network can be scaled about 100 times, Buterin noted during a conversation with podcaster Tim Ferriss. Back in November last year, Buterin presented the so-called "Rollup...

Ethereum (ETH) price surged noticeably, hitting $500. This is a new high for more than 2 years. Last week the Ethereum search interest on Google was increased. It is apparently connected with Ethereum 2.0’s launch as potential buyers are looking to enter ETH markets and registers on the back of...

Pickle Finance (PICKLE) is another food-themed token that surged from a low of $ 4.41 (September 12) to a high of $ 85.24 (September 14). Pickle Finance is being used for "profitable farming" and aims to "eliminate volatility in the four largest stablecoins in the DeFi market."...

Joanne Rowling, the author of the series of books about Harry Potter, asked for an explanation of one question "what is Bitcoin" because she could not understand anything. Elon Musk (head of SpaceX and Tesla), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum, the second most popular cryptocurrency),...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that he did not confirm the possible transition of the Ethereum ecosystem to stage 2.0 in July. In the crypto community were surprised at the statement of Buterin circulated by some media. So they turned to one of the Ethereum developers Afri Schoeden for...

At the Consensus: Distributed conference on Monday, May 11, Vitalik Buterin announced that the launch of Ethereum 2.0 is going to begin in July. The update, also known as Serenity, has been repeatedly delayed. It was incipiently planned for January 2020, then moved to the second quarter, and then...

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk supported Twitter head Jack Dorsey, who is facing a threat of firing. Musk succinctly noted that his sympathy is on the side of the current head of the social media platform. Just want say that I support @Jack as Twitter CEO. He has a...

Developers won't have the opportunity to release the Ethereum 2.0 update in the first quarter, as previously planned, but they are “95% sure” that they are going to have time to prepare the release before the end of 2020. The team spoke about this during the AMA session on ​​the Reddit...