Vitalik Buterin Celebrates Birthday, Says “My Childhood Is Over”

Today, on his 30th birthday, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared a moving post reflecting on the last couple of years of his life and the evolving crypto space that made him re-evaluate his role within the community.

The End Of An Era For Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin, who just three years ago was making all the headlines as the youngest billionaire at 27, reflected on his post about the role he used to have as a young developer in the crypto space. He recalled spending the last two years speaking with a new generation that has taken leading roles within the crypto space to organize and develop it further, the same way he did a decade ago.

This experience has made the Ethereum founder realize his progression into a more established position in the crypto community, as he explained:

But watching all of these people go further than I did, younger than I did, made me clearly realize that if that was ever my role, it is no longer. I am now in some different kind of role, and it is time for the next generation to take up the mantle that used to be mine.

In the post, Buterin explored his journey to reach and embrace this new role, citing that “A person’s identity is always tied to their role in the broader world that they are operating in, and over a decade, not only does a person change but so does the world around them.”

Buterin’s previous mathematic and economic-driven thinking changed after realizing that he spent the first five years of his crypto life looking for what “was impossible” and not modeling the variables that truly made a difference “between existing flawed systems succeeding or failing” in practice.

Though still present in his life, this once pivotal part of his identity doesn’t take as big of a role in his writing or thinking.

The Ethereum co-founder shares he’s never been a high-agency person, and throughout his life, most of his decisions have not been driven by “conviction.” Instead, “Most of my decisions in Ethereum involved responding to other people’s pressures and requests,” as he explained.

Buterin recalled several significant events in the world and the crypto space, such as the war in Ukraine and Go to Source to See Full Article
Author: Rubmar Garcia

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