Ethereum: The Programmable Blockchain Revolution
Bitcoin introduced the idea that money could exist independently of governments and banks, ushering in a decentralized form of value exchange. But to Vitalik Buterin, a teenage developer from Russia who grew up in Canada, Bitcoin was only scratching the surface. It was a calculator a single-function tool when what he imagined was a full-fledged computer. In 2013, he proposed Ethereum, a blockchain designed to go beyond currency. It would support applications of all kinds, built on code that executed automatically, with no need for middlemen.