Where is Ethereum headed now after the Merge? An interview with Vitalik Buterin
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Late in the day on September 14, Vitalik Buterin and a small group of cryptocurrency developers swarmed into a Berlin office to launch The Merge. Buterin, the 28-year-old co-founder of Ethereum who has been involved in the cryptocurrency industry since he was a teenager, had long since envisioned a system that would essentially operate itself, so there wasn’t a real switch to flick. Developers on the client side would download these pieces of code, the crypto research and developer community would agree on what a change looks like, coders would type out a command and timestamp it, and then at the predetermined time, the system would manifest the change by itself—in this case, The Merge. It altered the way in which transactions on the Ethereum blockchain are confirmed, a long-awaited improvement that has been hailed as a turning point in the cryptocurrency world. That doesn’t lessen how diff...