I've never been more excited about the potential of the Internet, and that's largely thanks to Vitalik Buterin.
–Alexis Ohanian(co-founder, Reddit), TIME [Vitalik] Buterin is an extremely thorough and complex thinker: He's trying to solve both problems that exist today and those that might exist in 20 years, with regards to privacy, housing, city planning, voting systems, and much more. And he's still only 28, and growing into his role as a public figure. To me, it seems highly likely that this story only marks the start–as opposed to the peak–of his influence on the world.
–Andrew R. Chow on his March 2022 TIME cover profile of Vitalik Buterin Vitalik Buterin, creator of the fast-growing new cryptocurrency network Ethereum, wants to use his technology to disrupt, well, everything.
–Fortune [Vitalik Buterin's] vision has become a rallying cry. . . a technological crusade for increased access, transparency, and accountability. . . . A new economy in which anyone can participate on their own terms.
–Wired "I saw him on the commuter train and he was wearing mismatched Hello Kitty socks. . . . And this is the person building the infrastructure that is challenging the power structures of the most important financial institutions out there."
–Wired An indispensable voice of authority with a great talent for untangling and explaining the technicalities of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies.
–Wired "Vitalik Buterin is not only a great innovator, he is also a great and important thinker. The essays collected in this book prove that, and so many of them have more real substance than entire books by many other people." –
Tyler Cowen, Professor of economics, George Mason University Vitalik Buterin is unique in his robust, technical, and perspicacious approach to good intentions. He is one of the principal "good guys" in the epochal, if uncertain, emergence of a world-to-come in which digital networks become as useful as they ought to be. This book is nerdy on the surface, but read with an open mind it is dramatic. It's about the quest to figure out how the world can be better. There is no greater game and nothing more suspenseful or more filled with love.
– Jaron Lanier, computer scientist and author
Vitalik Buterin is one of the most influential creators of our generation primarily thanks to Ethereum, of course, but also because of his written work, which until now, has come in the form of white papers, blog posts, and tweets. But here we have the privilege of reading Vitalik's first book! Like most of his work, it is sure to become a must-read in the cryptocurrency space, as it dives into the heart of Ethereum–its consensus mechanism–which will be key to understanding the heart of the internet itself as web3 grows.
–Camila Russo, author of The Infinite Machine, founder of The Defiant
Vitalik Buterin is one of the most important thinkers in crypto. His creation, Ethereum, has been the platform that launched nearly all of the big crypto trends of the last several years. He is also one of the field's clearest communicators, which is why this compendium of his writing is a crucial contribution to development of a new technology that will impact all of our lives.
–Laura Shin, host of Unchained podcast and author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
