2015 was a turbulent year for the world. Social events included the terrorist attacks in Paris, the earthquake in Nepal, the flow of Syrian refugees, and the Eight Immortals dust storm that shocked Taiwan. Economic events included the downturn in the global market, the continued low international oil prices, and the decline in currencies of various countries. depreciation, but also in this year, the blockchain that subverted the global traditional financial industry-Ethereum was born.
Ethereum was born at 10:26 a.m. Eastern Time on July 30, 2015. "CoinDesk" reporter Grace Caffyn wrote in the article "Ethereum launches long-awaited decentralized application network" at that time: "The scale is huge. , designed to be flexible, it aims to cover almost everything on the decentralized network.” However, the article is also mixed with the opinions of skeptics, who criticize Ethereum for being “immature” and “too ambitious.” ” and stated that it “still has a lot to prove.”
The founding team named the first version of Ethereum "Frontier". At this time, the Ethereum technology was indeed not yet mature and was still in the experimental stage. It was only for developers to develop programs and allowed development Before the launch of Ethereum, Steven Taul, the then Chief Operating Officer of Ethereum, issued an article stating:
During the launch of Frontier, we hope that early adopters and app developers will build a community and begin to form a vibrant ecosystem. They are like the gold diggers in the American Frontier era. They will face great opportunities, but they will also face many risks.
Steven Taul's prediction turned out to be correct. Today, Ethereum has grown into a thriving ecosystem with more than 1.6 million weekly active users, thousands of nodes and communities, and a market capitalization of $226 billion. Over the past eight years, Ethereum has not only given birth to a new era of decentralized applications (DApps), but also served as the launch pad for decentralized finance (DeFi), fueling the NFT craze and laying the foundation for the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). foundation.
As Ethereum celebrates its 8th anniversary, Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) shared an old photo of him and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin taken in 2015 on Twitter.
On this 8th birthday of #Ethereum, a little throw back to May 2, 2015, in Tokyo, just before#ETHwas officially born. @VitalikButerin stayed in my apartment in Tokyo during this trip. He was already working on and talking about ETH non-stop. And I still missed (didn't buy)… pic.twitter.com/84B6KN73Qf
— CZ Binance (@cz_binance) July 30, 2023
Changpeng Zhao joked in the post that Vitalik Buterin happened to visit Japan and stayed in his apartment in Tokyo. Although Ethereum had not yet been officially launched at the time, Vitalik Buterin had already begun to study and talk about Ethereum (ETH). However, Changpeng Zhao was not swayed by this and bought Ethereum, but he was glad that he missed this investment opportunity, otherwise he might not have the motivation to start Binance later.
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