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ОглавлениеCast of Characters
Ethereum Cofounders
Vitalik Buterin – Ethereum inventor, ringleader, onetime fashion maven, and lover of bunnies
Anthony Di Ilorio – Created Toronto's first Bitcoin meetup, early and important investor in Ethereum, later pushed out in a power struggle
Charles Hoskinson – One of the first five cofounders, wanted to lead the project from the start, fired after six months for abusive and manipulative behavior
Amir Chetrit – Met Vitalik in Israel working on colored coins project, unclear what he contributed to Ethereum, fired for lack of commitment
Mihai Alisie – Cofounder of Bitcoin Magazine with Vitalik, helped set up Ethereum's Zug headquarters, business development
Gavin Wood – Architect of Ethereum, C++ client creator, a bit prickly, took Vitalik's vision and made it real
Jeff Wilcke – Created Ethereum's Go client, sided with developers on power struggle question
Joe Lubin – Early and important investor in Ethereum, former software developer and Wall Street software engineer, true believer, user of strange words, founder of Ethereum development studio ConsenSys
Other important early people
Roxana Sureanu – Helped get Bitcoin Magazine off the ground, willing hardscrabble traveler, turned the Spaceship House from a dwelling into a home
Stephan Tual – Ethereum evangelical, ran marketing for the project, has the gift of gab, one of three founders of slock.it, added to Ethereum leadership after Zug purge
Christoph Jentzsch – Helped debug Ethereum code in run up to 2015 launch, theoretical physicist by training, co-founded slock.it, really wishes he could revisit line 666 in the DAO code
Mathias Grønnebæk – Helped establish Zug headquarters, reader of tax laws, worked for Charles Hoskinson, helped craft Ethereum Foundation business plan
Taylor Gerring – Helped secure Bitcoin raised in Ethereum crowdsale, taker of many photos, added to Ethereum leadership after Zug purge
Anthony D'Onofrio – Designer and software developer, helped improve early Ethereum web site, took drugs, saw future, one of the few people Gav Wood likes
Emin Gün Sirer – Blockchain pioneer, first to use proof of work to back a digital coin, Cornell associate professor of computer science, called unsuccessfully for a moratorium on the DAO then found the DAO bug and dismissed it
Peter Vessenes – Bitcoin pioneer, tangled with the Bitcoin Foundation, pointed out smart contract security issues
Ming Chan – First executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, whipped it into shape to keep it within its means, Vitalik favored her though she rubbed many the wrong way
Badass blockchain ninja warriors
Alex Van de Sande – Known as avsa, helped marshal the Robin Hood Group from his apartment in Rio, co-developed the Mist wallet, excellent husband, the one who pushed the button to start the DAO counterattack
Griff Green – The Mayor of Ethereum circa June 2016, hugger, visionary, driver of the RHG, slock.it's first employee, wants a sick jump shot but it's just not happening this time around
Fabian Vogelsteller – tech whiz who helped the RHG prepare to fight the ether thief, co-developed Mist wallet
Lefteris Karapetsas – coding guru, replicated DAO attack in a few hours
Jordi Baylina – helped the RHG drain remaining $4 million of ether from the DAO, coding genius, Spanish freedom fighter
Other really important early people
Dmitry Buterin – Vitalik's dad, supportive father, hater of communists
Natalia Buterin – Vitalik's mom, patient mother, adventurous spirit
Maia Buterin – Vitalik's step mom, patiently waited for Vitalik's cooking
Important people who helped Ethereum go mainstream
Amber Baldet – Hands-on builder, coder, vital within JPMorgan to link Ethereum to its in-house Quorum project
Christine Moy – Amber's first hire for Quorum within JPMorgan, finance master in all areas of the bank
Patrick Nielsen – Hired by Amber at JPMorgan, solved the privacy issue for the bank that gave birth to the Quorum ecosystem
Marley Gray – Microsoft director of blockchain and distributed ledger business development in 2015, lover of Andrew Keys, delivered on Microsoft's vision of “a growth mindset” by linking up with Ethereum
Alex Batlin – Ran UBS Labs, a fintech-focused unit at the Swiss bank, instrumental in creation of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
Jeremy Millar – ConsenSys executive who helped create the EEA after realizing competition from R3 and IBM were real and needed a response
Andrew Keys – One of the first ConsenSys hires, worked for free, loaned $100,000 to the Ethereum Foundation to ensure Dev Con 1 took place, great explainer of complicated things