Started by Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal as Crypto Relief Fund in 2021 during COVID times, it was rebranded as Blockchain for Impact on July 30, with Buterin attending the event. BFI will now fund healthcare projects, with a 10-year plan.
Vitalik Buterin, who is also said to be the world’s youngest cryptocurrency billionaire, was spotted enjoying a Darshini style masala dosa in Bengaluru.
Ethereum's price currently stands at $1,604 with a market cap of nearly $201 billion, having dropped from a high of $1,648.19 on September 15
Merge alludes to the network’s move to the ‘proof-of-stake’ consensus from its current ‘proof of work.’ ETH developers had, last week, announced that the merge will tentatively take place during the week of September 19
Buterin created Ethereum in 2014 and is the owner of a digital wallet that as recently as November contained holdings worth about $1.5 billion.
In rupee terms, Bitcoin dipped 0.86 percent to trade at Rs 32,31,285 while Ethereum tumbled 1.33 percent to Rs 2,24,505.8
Cardano rose 1.81 percent to Rs 85.48 and Avalanche 4.98 percent to Rs 5,648. Polkadot rose 2.37 percent to Rs 1,494.41 and Litecoin 0.96 percent to Rs 8,802.61 over the last 24 hours. Tether increased 0.04 percent to Rs 80.3
Suggestions came in after Elon Musk expressed concern about “population collapse”, saying that if there are not enough people for Earth, there certainly will not be enough for Mars.
Vitalik Buterin says government regulation "is always a concern" and that it is important to listen to regulators and try to do the best to address their worries.
Another popular cryptocoin, Dogecoin saw a rise of 11.42 percent and was trading at $0.0414725 with the market cap of $53.72 billion.
Created in August 2020 by someone named Ryoshi, Shibu Inu is a joke coin or meme coin which was launched as a rival to Dogecoin, which is also a cryptocoin.
The relief fund currently accepts donations in the form of cryptocurrencies which include Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, Solana, Tezos, Cosmos, Dogecoin, etc. Co-founder of Polygon Sandeep Nailwal even mentioned their addresses via a tweet series.
Buterin, who recently became the world’s youngest crypto billionaire at the age of 27, donated 500 ETH and over 50 trillion Shiba Inu, a meme coin, worth around $1.14 billion at the time of the transaction, to India COVID-Crypto Relief Fund, set up by Indian tech entrepreneur Sandeep Nailwal.
Born in 1994, Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and author who founded Ethereum in 2014.
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The latest bickering erupted after Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright promised to prove he was the mysterious creator of bitcoin - which allows users to move money across the world quickly and anonymously - but then said on Thursday he could not provide further evidence to back this up.