At the age of just 19, the Canadian-Russian teenager – Vitalik Buterin – created a crypto-empire. An empire consisting of the cryptocurrency Ethereum, which at the time of writing is the second largest cryptocurrency measured at market value, right in the heels of Bitcoin. A market value, which in December 2017 peaked at a market value of approximately $ 138 billion, resulting from an Ethereum price of over $1400 for one Ether.

We give you the story of Vitalik Buterin; The story of a genius whose IQ is as big as Einstein’s IQ, if not larger. The story of a boy who did not play Lego as little, but preferred to play in – and explore the possibilities with Microsoft Excel. A teenager who, at the age of 19 years back in 2014, moved from the hometown of Toronto to Zug, Switzerland, to develop what we now know as Ethereum. And moreover, the story of an adult man in the early 20’s, who learned to understand and speak sensible mandarin in just 4 months.

You can sense where we are heading. And it will be even wilder. We have gathered the threads of Vitalik Buterin’s life (so far) – and reproduced them to find out why and how he created the world’s second largest cryptocurrency; Ethereum.

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