Original Author: Huo Huo
On June 7, 2014, under the witness of eight co-founders, the idea of Ethereum was born in a rental house called "Spaceship" in the Swiss woods. Today, the peak market cap can exceed $150 billion. In fact, since the birth of Ethereum, the encryption industry has caused a storm, and even set off wave after wave of upsurge in the web3 world, such as from ICO, NFT, to Defi, IDO and other concepts. Even the concept of Web3 came from a co-founder of Ethereum.
As the center of this storm, Ethereum is a consensus on decentralization established by a group of idealists, and there are also many storms inside.Originally, the list of founders of Ethereum is very long, according to the description of one of its founders, Anthony Di Iorio. In December 2013, there were five founders of Ethereum, they are: Vitalik Buterin, Anthony Di Iorio, Charles Hoskinson, Mihai Alisie and Amir Chetrit, and then in 2014, another three joined as co-founders, they are: Joseph Lubin, Gavin Wood, and Jeffrey Wilcke.
Later, the eight people fell apart, and only V God is still working for Ethereum. The main cause of the rift between the eight was a bitter row over whether ethereum should become a for-profit company or remain a non-profit.Therefore, although Ethereum had 8 co-founders at the beginning, in the process of the growth of the Ethereum community, such non-consensus parts that are difficult to reconcile, let Ethereum and Vitalik move forward with the split of community ideas. and the departure of team members as sacrifices.
Today, in addition to being familiar with V God, the names of several other people may not be known to everyone, and this is what the vernacular blockchain wants to share today.
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Charles Hoskinson is one of the original five founders of Ethereum. Born in Hawaii, he originally wanted to be a mathematician, but found that the charm of Bitcoin is more interesting than mathematics, so he began to devote himself to the blockchain industry.
In December 2013 Hoskinson was appointed CEO (Chief Executive Officer) responsible for Swiss foundations and their legal framework. In the early days of Ethereum development,As CEO, he laid a solid foundation for the development of Ethereum, especially in the establishment and development of the foundation and the establishment of the legal framework and other basic work.
However, his time on the project ended within a few months, partly due to supposedly feuding relationships with the other founders. And Hoskinson wants Ethereum to be a for-profit company, but V God wants it to be a non-profit platform. There is also gossip about the departure incident: He himself said that he left voluntarily, but others said that God V fired him. Either way, the two have been known to not particularly like each other, and have occasionally made digs at each other's ways of doing things.
The DAO incident in 2016 caused Ethereum to fork, and Charles just turned to support Ethereum Classic (ETC) through this event, and then he left to create Cardano. (ADA (ADA) is the Token of the project,Cardano is a new-generation blockchain smart contract platform under development, committed to becoming a more convenient, faster, and smarter new-generation underlying public chain, claims to be the first blockchain project "driven by scientific philosophy and research-led".
The difference between Cardano's development method and Ethereum is that Cardano's research is ahead of practice, and its development is relatively conservative, but it may be more easily accepted by traditional industries. Its ada cryptocurrency soars in 2021. Cardano also allows users to build their own projects,secondary title
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One of Gavin Wood's most commendable abilities is his strong engineering ability, that is, the ability to turn ideas into code through reasonable architectural design and programming. In the hearts of many blockchain developers, he is a great programmer and technical leader.
In 2013, Gavin, who had some interest in the blockchain, met Vitalik through an old friend. After listening to V God's ideas about Ethereum, Gavin felt that the idea of making the blockchain programmable is very interesting, and decided to help V God write Ethereum into code. In 2014, he went to Miami and founded Ethereum with V God and several other founders.Here, Gavin developed the first working version of Ethereum, generally known as Ethereum PoC 1 or Alpha version. After that, Gavin served as the first CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Ethereum. In 2014, he wrote the "Ethereum Yellow Paper", which defined the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which is the first formal technology of the blockchain state machine. specification.
In the next two years, Gavin devoted himself to the development of Ethereum, including building a general platform architecture, completing most of the development of the Ethereum C++ client, and designing an object-oriented programming language for writing Ethereum smart contracts. The programming language Solidity.
The concept of Web3 was proposed by Gavin Wood in 2014, that is, to establish a disintermediated and free network environment to break the monopoly of today's Internet and return data, privacy, etc. to users, and he hopes to use blockchain technology , Eliminate the exploitation of users by major platforms, use more truth to ensure that everything goes as expected, so that the entire society no longer needs to rely on artificial trust to operate.His summary of the core concept of Web3 is: "Less trust, more truth".
At the end of 2015, Gavin left Ethereum and founded EthCore. Gavin is an ambitious person who likes to challenge. After gradually gathering more than 60 developers from 15 countries, he proposed to write the Ethereum Parity client in Rust language. EthCore has developed into Parity technology, and its performance far exceeds that of Geth and C++ clients. He said that's exactly what we want to learn and focus on.
This is the blockchain protocol Polkadot, a chain that is believed to have the ability to grow into a new chain that replaces Ethereum. Today, Polkadot has indeed become a strong competitor of Ethereum.
The reason why Gavin left Ethereum is unknown, and some conjectures suggest that Gavin and Vitalik may have diverged on the development path of Ethereum.In some later interviews, Gavin did mention that he did not agree with Ethereum’s governance through hard forks, and he believed that only using ETH to pay fees made Ethereum deviate from becoming a “free competition DEX” original intention. It seems that in Gavin's mind, Ethereum cannot realize his vision of Web3.0.
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Joseph Lubin is the most experienced founder of Ethereum 8, Lubin from the UK graduated from Princeton University in 1987 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After graduation, Lubin has pursued a diverse career in software engineering, music production, business, and finance. Later, Lubin became interested in cryptocurrencies and got in touch with fellow Canadian Di Iorio through the Canadian Bitcoin Alliance.
In 2014, he got to know V God, and after reading the white paper of V God, he also quite recognized it, so when he was invited to join the co-founder group, he went happily.At that time, he was in charge and proposed to write the architecture of Ethereum in C++ programming language, so he was mainly responsible for the technical part. Coupled with his family's strong financial resources, together with Di Iorio, they provided a lot of financial support for the initial development of Ethereum.
Later, when Ethereum chose to become a non-profit organization, Joseph left the Ethereum community due to different development visions, and Lubin founded the for-profit Ethereum development company ConsenSys, which launched many different projects on the network. An example is the well-known little fox wallet MetaMask.Because Joseph hopes to achieve commercial success, Consensys no longer only focuses on Ethereum open source development, but focuses more on building applications and incubating a large number of blockchain start-ups. It is mainly based on the Ethereum platform, but it does not exclude those based on other platforms, such as Filecoin or Polkadot.
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Alisie is from Romania and graduated from Lucian Braga University in Sibiu in 2010 with a degree in Cybernetics, Economic Informatics and Statistics.
At the beginning, Vitalik wrote articles on some forums and blogs in order to study Bitcoin, and Bitcoin enthusiast Mihai Alisie just saw it, so the two began to actively communicate, and finally co-founded the Bitcoin magazine Bitcoin Magazine at the end of 2011. At that time, V God was the chief writer and Alisie was the editor-in-chief.
Later, V God created Ethereum, and Alisie responded positively. He helped establish Ethereum’s base in Switzerland, merged the original startups, and led Switzerland to create business infrastructure and legal frameworks that were critical to Ethereum crowdfunding activities, such as Opening a bank account for the fledgling crypto company in ethereum (which was said to be a difficult thing at the time), dealing with lawyers and Swiss officials on the legal framework crucial to the pre-sale event, etc.
“Early on, it was a group of people with big ideas and big ambitions, and it wasn’t clear that they were going to be successful,” Alisie said.
In the early days of Ethereum, he also assisted in the development of Ethereum's strategic planning, the work of the vice chairman of the Ethereum Foundation.Until the end of 2015, after discussing whether Ethereum needs to be profitable, he began to retreat and gradually devote himself to Akasha, the social framework of Ethereum, due to the unforeseen development. Akasha uses Ethereum and IPFS to build applications, and Alisie's social framework also hopes to achieve greater development with the help of Ethereum 2.0 and Filecoin.
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Anthony Di Iorio, like V God, is also from Toronto. He has run a wide range of businesses and has dabbled in careers in marketing and venture capital. He is also the Executive Director of the Canadian Bitcoin Alliance and once organized the first Bitcoin Summit in Toronto. In November 2012, he got acquainted with V God at a bitcoin meeting.
He and the above-mentioned founder Joseph Lubin have a common feature, that is, he is also a wealthy second generation with a strong family background, mainly because of having a rich dad. In late 2013, co-founded and co-founded Ethereum. There is no detailed information on specific responsible projects. However, the reason for participating in Ethereum is very simple, to make more money.
The reason for him retiring to the second line is also similar to that of Joseph. He does not support the non-profit operation of Ethereum. After Ethereum established a non-profit operating model, Di Iorio gradually retired, and then left soon.After leaving, Di Iorio briefly served as the chief digital officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange platform. But the advantage of having money is freedom, and you can freely choose what you want to do. He thought that having assets in his hands would be better than doing some big things. So he left in 2016 and founded Decentral to develop the Jaxx digital wallet. The wallet was first launched in May 2018. That same year, Di Iorio was named among the top 20 richest people in cryptocurrency by Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of $750 million to $1 billion at the time.
But in the summer of 2021, Anthony Di Iorio announced that based on personal security considerations, he would withdraw from the Bi circle, and planned to sell his blockchain company Decentral Inc for "hundreds of millions of dollars".secondary title
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This is a professional from Israel majoring in computer science, but the first bucket of money in his career came from real estate development. He dropped out of school in 2008 and then dabbled in real estate, because the financial crisis also began to affect the traditional financial system. Suspect.Then he started dabbling in bitcoin, which he felt was a great opportunity to make more money.
At a Bitcoin event in Amsterdam in September 2013, Amir Chetrit met Vitalik.
When he met V God, he was working with Israeli startup Colored Coins, a project aimed at managing real-world assets as Tokens at the top of the Bitcoin network. V God also participated in the project before proposing Ethereum.In December 2013, Chetrit was invited by V God to join the creation of Ethereum.
After all, he is engaged in real estate and investment, and he may not be enthusiastic enough about technology and the vision of Ethereum, and he did not introduce too much about the specific affairs he is responsible for.secondary title
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Another computer programmer, Jeffrey Wilcke, came into contact with Ethereum when he was working on the first ICO Mastercoin in the Netherlands. Since then, he has been very interested, so he decided to quietly write an implementation page in Google's Go language. In early 2014, he was added to the list of founders along with Gavin Wood.
Wilcke's software page building journey is also called Go Ethereum, or "Geth" for short.image description
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However, after experiencing the hard fork of Ethereum, a series of hacking incidents, and the birth of his son, Wilcke handed over the supervision of Geth to his right-hand man, Peter Szilagyi.He currently runs a game development studio, Grid Games, with his brother Joey, it was previously revealed that he sold some ETH to fund Grid Games' recruitment of developers.
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The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, is called "V God" by Chinese fans. Basically, those who can be called "gods" have legends about them.
The first is the child prodigy image of V God, he is considered a prodigy boy. He was very good at mathematics and programming when he was a child. He won the bronze medal in the 2012 International Informatics Olympiad when he was a freshman.
But there is some contrast between its glorious image and personality appearance.God V is thin and small, like an "elf". He walks a bit stiffly, but he runs not slow. Once he participated in an event in the Ethereum community, he slipped away when he left the venue, and the fans did not catch up with him. Moreover, he is introverted and has no interest in dressing himself up. He wears simple and comfortable clothes. He occasionally twitches at the corner of his mouth when he talks. God V once wore two Hello Kitty socks with different patterns on the train, God V packed all his property in a suitcase, and God V ate lemons without peeling them. However, according to related reports, V God's father has denied it. However, people in the Ethereum community are very keen to "add bricks and tiles" to the mysterious image of God V. Is this the so-called don't be obsessed with brother, brother is just a legend?
What inspired him to explore Bitcoin and the burgeoning crypto industry was the game he played. He has been in contact with World of Warcraft since he was 13 years old (2007), and has become a diehard fan since then. By 2010,Due to Blizzard's system upgrade, the character attributes in V God's game were forced to make some adjustments. He couldn't accept it, and he gave up playing the game of World of Warcraft. Immediately he also realized the horror of centralized services.
At that time, V God began to regard government regulation and centralized control of companies as an original sin. Naturally, Bitcoin's attributes of decentralization and not being controlled by any individual or institution aroused his keen interest. So when he heard about Bitcoin, his eyes lit up. Later, he looked for a job on various forums that could pay wages in bitcoins. By coincidence, there happened to be an opportunity for him to write articles to earn bitcoins.
The birth of the idea of Ethereum originally originated from V God's desire to improve Bitcoin.As a columnist at that time, after doing a lot of research, he discovered some limitations of Bitcoin, and began to try to make suggestions in the community, but at that time, he was still very soft-spoken, and the leaders of the Bitcoin community did not respond to his ideas very much.
It just so happens that V God is good at explaining things. He simply wrote a white paper based on the concept behind BTC, proposing to build a new platform where any decentralized and anti-censorship applications can exist.image description
Vitalik started using computers at a very young age | Source: BAZAAR
When the total market value of Ethereum exceeded 500 billion US dollars, V God once said frankly that he did not expect that Ethereum would become a behemoth, and that things would become so complicated."When I started Ethereum, I just wanted to finish it in a few months and go back to college."
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Indeed, among the eight co-founders of Ethereum, whether it is Charles Hoskinson and Gavin Wood who have become competitors, or Anthony Di Iorio, Amir Chetrit and Jeffrey Wilcke who have withdrawn from the industry to find other developments, or have founded companies Mihai Alisie and Joseph Lubin who came to help build the application and community layer of Ethereum, only V God is still there.
V God once said that the biggest regret (non-technical) in the journey of Ethereum was the hasty selection of "8 co-founders" and the separation of everyone.It is simple to gather the great gods together, but to unite their thoughts together, V God said that it is the most difficult lesson in the development of Ethereum.
“People in small groups are more difficult to coordinate tightly than I thought. You can’t get people to sit in a circle and look at each other’s inherent goodness, let alone have a huge incentive conflict. at the same time.”
—— V God
Ethereum is now known as the "Whampoa Military Academy" of Web3. Although the early founders have started new businesses, the ecology of Ethereum has been formed, and the developer community continues to grow. People, many of whom are members of the former Ethereum community, are actively promoting and growing the development of Web3.Original link
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