Vitalik Buterin

Initially, I thought that Ethereum was a thing that would be used for people to write simple financial scripts. As it turns…

— Vitalik Buterin

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

— Vitalik Buterin

The thing that I often ask startups on top of Ethereum is, 'Can you please tell me why using the Ethereum blockchain…

— Vitalik Buterin

When I came up with Ethereum, my first first thought was, 'Okay, this thing is too good to be true.' As it…

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Scalability is this idea of coming up with a blockchain that can scale much larger than existing chains essentially by processing transactions…

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In order to have a decentralised database, you need to have security. In order to have security, you need to - you…

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You could imagine something like a completely automated system for renting bikes that's just done completely over blockchain crypto-payments. And theoretically just…

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I think people don't realise that running a piece of code that verifies some conditions for a financial transaction, that by itself…

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Many people at different levels of the Russian government are open to crypto-currencies.

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Blockchain software companies may end up being amalgamated into existing software giants, at which point blockchain patents will just become part of…

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You can write anything that you would be able to write on a server and put it onto the blockchain. Instead of…

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I generally support just about every secession attempt that comes along. If, in the future, there is that kind of a dispute…

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Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the…

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The technical side of Ethereum's efficacy is 100% an engineering exercise.

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The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people…

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The Ethereum client is literally a fork of Chromium's webkit backend. The idea is that users can build their own interfaces with…

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Bitcoin is great as a form of digital money, but its scripting language is too weak for any kind of serious advanced…

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Although the Ethereum blockchain is a public blockchain, it is great to see private and consortium blockchains using the Ethereum code base…

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When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like…

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I think Bitcoin really feels empowering in a sense.

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Blockchains will drop search costs, causing a kind of decomposition that allows you to have markets of entities that are horizontally segregated…

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I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

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There is definitely a lot of banks that are interested in private blockchains. In some cases, they are happy with public blockchains…

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A smart contract is a mechanism involving digital assets and two or more parties, where some or all of the parties put…

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Some bitcoin users see the hard fork as in some ways violating their most fundamental values. I personally think these fundamental values,…

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