Since Nakamoto, no one has advanced this space more than Vitalik Buterin, the 22-year-old child-prodigywho in 2013 began thinking of extending blockchain’s capabilities beyond just money, launched his vision in 2015 and saw it explode this year with ETH increasing by more than 700%. More than just a new currency, Vitalik has created a new technology – an ethereum virtual machine that executes smart contracts. In the process, he has transformed money into truly digital code which anyone with some knowledge can program and order around. As such, ethereum is an upgrade of bitcoin itself, which is still waiting for its smart contract functionalities through Rootstock, as well as an upgrade of analogue money. Developers, seeing the new capabilities, flocked, as did ordinary users, investors, household brands, consortiums. A new vibrant ecosystem was born that began to think of Decentralized, Autonomous Organizations, a world of no CEOs, no Board of Directors, where VC investment is open to all, where machines gain a basic level of intelligence through the added ability to act by autonomously transferring value. From music, games and wider entertainment, social networking, finance, record keeping, theft prevention, goods authentication, poker, smart locks and the addition of value exchange […]