Vitalik Buterin News

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated $4 million worth of USD Coin (USDC) to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to support the development of a pandemic detection tool.

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said layer 2 (L2) transaction fees need to be under USD 0.05 in order to become “truly acceptable.”

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that Layer-2 transaction fees need to be under $0.05 to be “truly acceptable.”

What’s the latest hype around the NFT market? Bored Apes? Mutant Apes? Well, not really. Now, the latest ETH craze involves four-digit numbers.

The capital of Argentina and an agglomeration with more than 12 million citizens, Buenos Aires will make blockchain a vital part of its digitalization drive. Specifically, the city will accept public financial transactions in crypto. 

Ukraine is aiming to become a top 5 country in the world in terms of crypto legislation, and the efforts have the “total support” of both President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the government, according to a high-ranking Ukrainian government official.

Scott Free Productions, a movie and TV production company co-founded by filmmaker Ridley Scott, whose 2000 film Gladiator won the Academy Award for Best Picture, has joined the project to produce a movie that will explore the birth and rise of the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. 

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin claims his influence over Ethereum “keeps decreasing,” and says he has less influence today than he had six months ago. 

Ethereum is the most well-known altcoin, and it’s much more than just another cryptocurrency for many investors and enthusiasts alike. And experts say it could grow in value by as much as 400% in 2022.

Locking up crypto developers who stray into murky legal waters may become a more everyday occurrence in the years to come.

The Montenegrin government has begun fulfilling its pledge to become a hub for blockchain innovation by reportedly making Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin its newest citizen.

Cointelegraph's Joseph Hall sat down with Silvio Micali, the founder of Algorand, as part of its on-the-ground coverage of the Paris Blockchain Week Summit, or PBWS. Algorand is a blockchain that uses a Pure proof-of-stake (PPoS) protocol, and the company was one of the main sponsors of the summit. 

Bitcoin is not just the best-known cryptocurrency but also the oldest. Six years ago, Bitcoin dominated the crypto market with 81% share, but that has fallen to 41%. At $803 billion, Bitcoin is still the most valued token followed by the fast-emerging Ether — the currency of Ethereum platform — at $389 billion. What has driven Ether’s popularity? And where is it headed? Aseem Gujar & Partha Sinha find out… Bitcoin may be synonymous with crypto as it was designed as an independent virtual currency that could also be a hedge against inflation. To facilitate Bitcoin transactions, blockchain — distributed ledger technology — was developed by its anonymous creators in 2008. A teen, who was introduced to crypto by his father in 2011, realised that restricting blockchain to financial transactions was Bitcoin’s shortcoming and went on to conceptualise a new platform called Ethereum in 2014. Presented ByDid you Know?DeFi is enabling

The crypto community-backed charitable venture that earlier received a USD 2.5m fund boost from the Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has announced it has launched a charity crypto debit card that will allow Ukrainian users to access funds and humanitarian aid.

As told by Aid for Ukraine, a joint initiative created by the Ukrainian government, FTX, Everstake, and Kuna to rally crypto donations for the country, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin made $5 million worth of ETH donations to Ukraine in early April. According to the entity, despite the large donation sum, Buterin did not make an announcement regarding the transaction. It was eventually linked to him via the Ethereum Name Service domain name "vitalik.eth", which served as the origin of the transfer.

The Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has made some USD 5 million worth of crypto donations – in ETH – with half going to the Ukrainian government and the remainder going to a charity that is providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainian citizens.

The perfect blockchain comprises three elements: security, decentralization and scalability. The first two are said to go hand in hand, with decentralization being the backbone of blockchain technology, which requires no central authority or intermediary to operate. For this reason, Bitcoin initially arose as a solution with the ability to transfer funds without involving a central bank. Without an intermediary, security is maintained through a method of validation, where network nodes must approve a transaction.

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Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum (ETH), recently expressed his concerns about Ethereum’s future. However, attendees of the recent ETHDubai event voiced mixed sentiments over Buterin’s talk on crypto’s perils.

Cross border remittances are a matter of life and death as the Russia-Ukraine war and Afghanistan’s frozen funds have shown us. However, there are plenty of high-stakes use cases for crypto investors even in less precarious financial situations.

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said it is still possible to reduce Ethereum's complexity while improving its functionality. The statement comes as some developers have recently complained about Ethereum's complexity.