Vitalik Buterin is the man behind the cryptocurrency “Ethereum”. He is responsible for the smart contract capabilities of ethereum and the applications of DeFI and more. In 2013 Buterin dropped out of college and started working on the white paper to develop Ethereum.
Q: What kinds of people does the IT professional interact with? Are they other IT professionals? Clients? Investors? The general public?
The people that they interact with are in fact other IT professionals which came together to form “the fellowship of the ring” to help create Ethereum one of these people was Charles Hoskinson who was a math genius joined in 2013 to help Buterin create Ethereum but his time on the project only lasted a few months because of his poor relationship with the other founders, Hoskinson later went on to be the founder of the Cardano blockchain. Another notable person that Buterin worked with was Gavin wood who is a computer scientist that joined the project as an Ethereum coder in 2014 and made the first test network for Ethereum. The rest of the developers are; Joe Lubin, Anthony Di lorio, Mihai Alisie, Jeffrey Wilcke, and Amir Chetrit all of which also have a background in IT.
Q: Where does the IT professional spend most of their time?Vitalik spends most of his time travelling and being a “digital nomad” working from many different locations but mainly in the North America region of the world, however he mentions how much he loved living in Singapore also and that Berlin also makes the top of his list of favourite places in which he has lived.
Q: What aspect of their position is most challenging?Vitalik mentions that the challenges he faces are those that every cryptocurrencies face and he specifically mentions the following, Building unique human identities on the blockchain, Post-quantum cryptography, creating decentralized governance mechanisms, defending proof-of-stake networks and the oracle problem.