Meet Vitalik Buterin, the 20-Year-Old Who Is Decentralizing Everything

Running a geographically distributed organization between five countries is hard. That’s likely the big one. And I’ll say that, having both founded Ethereum and co-founded Bitcoin Magazine, which works similarly, even if we have awesome cryptocurrencies and communication protocols, there’s still quite a bit of sociology that needs to catch up.

Bitcoin works by spreading the currency's entire history of transactions — the blockchain, it's called — out across the whole network of its users. Rather than just recording transactions, Ethereum's blockchain would be able record and execute any program you can code. Bitcoin is a pretty interesting fish, but Ethereum is poised to be the whole oce... See more