{"id":85973,"date":"2023-09-25T00:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T04:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85973"},"modified":"2023-09-25T00:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T04:21:54","slug":"vitalik-buterin-the-man-behind-ethereum-talks-crypto-and-the-u-s-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2023\/vitalik-buterin-the-man-behind-ethereum-talks-crypto-and-the-u-s-crackdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin, the man behind ethereum, talks crypto and the U.S. crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Buterin was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ninabambysheva\/2021\/05\/03\/ethereums-27-year-old-co-creator-is-now-the-worlds-youngest-crypto-billionaire\/?sh=24d9eca17c94\" target=\"_blank\">named the world\u2019s youngest crypto billionaire<\/a> at age 27 as the crypto market swelled to its peak in 2021. They call him \u201cV God\u201d in China, Time magazine dubbed him crypto royalty in its <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6158182\/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\">April 2022 cover story<\/a>, and he faces mobs of fans desperate for a moment of his attention \u2014 and a selfie \u2014 virtually anywhere he goes on the planet. But Buterin isn\u2019t really any of those things. He isn\u2019t the prince of crypto. He isn\u2019t a cult leader of new gen cypherpunks. He isn\u2019t the wonkiest wonk, or the nerdiest nerd. He <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/13\/business\/ethereum-shiba-inu-india-covid-donation\/index.html#:~:text=Ethereum%20co%2Dfounder%20Vitalik%20Buterin%20donated%20%241%20billion%20worth%20of,according%20to%20his%20public%20wallet.\" target=\"_blank\">regularly gives away his fortune<\/a> to worthy causes, knocking down his net worth. And he isn\u2019t, according to his own estimation, the be-all and end-all authority on the ethereum network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/09\/22\/vitalik-buterin-cnbc-interview-ethereum-founder-on-us-crypto-crackdown.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Buterin was named the world\u2019s youngest crypto billionaire at age 27 as the crypto market swelled to its peak in 2021. They call him \u201cV God\u201d in China, Time magazine dubbed him crypto royalty in its April 2022 cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85974,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85973\/revisions\/85974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}