The blockchain industry had a active year. In this moment they have consolidate ideas for a new technology for commercials sectors such as real estate and insurance. In addition, great strides have been made in terms of regulation in the countries where cryptocurrencies are most widely used; and it has even been announced that the world's central banks are developing their own digital currencies. But the protagonists of this article are not the advances and achievements of the blockchain this year, but the leaders who were behind them. Meet below the most important blockchain and Bitcoin characters of 2016.
Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, is one of the most influential young people in the digital economy world, having developed in this environment for more than five years and in different areas. He discovered the technology of accounting distributed in 2011, when he was offered a position to write about Bitcoin in a blog, Bitcoin Weekly, and became interested in programming codes during a high school course. Later he participated as a co-founder and writer of the magazine Bitcoin Magazine, where he wrote until 2014. But while this was happening, he had already begun to explore the cryptographic projects developed in the world, noting that the majority focused on applications with very specific uses, This is why he dedicated himself to designing and developing the software of a platform with broad capabilities that has become today one of the most used blockchain platforms in the world.
Blythe Masters es una conocida emprendedora de las finanzas de talla mundial, conocida por su gran desempeño en el banco JP Morgan durante 27 años, hasta que en 2014 decidió tomar otro rumbo como CEO de la firma de servicios financieros de vanguardia Digital Asset Holdings (DAH), una startup blockchain que se ha posicionado a nivel de peso pesado. Pero Masters no sólo se dedica a DAH, también es consultora en temas de Blockchain para el Banco Santander y parte de la junta directiva del Hyperledger Project.Vitalik Buterin, el fundador de Ethereum, es uno de los jóvenes más influyentes del mundo de la economía digital, pues se ha desarrollado en este ambiente durante más de cinco años y en distintas áreas. Él descubrió la tecnología de la contabilidad distribuida en 2011, cuando le fue ofrecido un puesto para escribir sobre Bitcoin en un blog, el Bitcoin Weekly, y comenzó a interesarse por los códigos de programación durante un curso de la preparatoria. Posteriormente participó como co-fundador y escritor de la revista Bitcoin Magazine, donde escribió hasta 2014. Pero mientras esto ocurría, ya había comenzado a explorar los proyectos criptográficos desarrollados en el mundo, notando que la mayoría se centraba en aplicaciones de usos muy específicos, razón por la que se dedicó a diseñar y desarrollar el software de una plataforma con capacidades amplias que se ha convertido hoy en una de las plataformas blockchain más usadas del mundo.
He is an Internet entrepreneur who has run several companies, including the software developer, Allaire Corp. in the 90s, and Circle, of which he is CEO and co-founder. In addition, he was Director of Technology at Macromedia, the company that was once the responsibility of Allaire Corporation. Currently, he holds the position of Chairman of the board of Brightcove, an online video platform.
The CEO of Circle recently announced that the platform known to operate intimately related to bitcoin, will no longer serve as the currency exchange house, one of the most attractive features of its mobile application.
The purpose of this ad, as published on his blog, is to separate a bit from the image of being a bitcoin payment application and focus more on developing its own blockchain platform called Spark. Although some experts believe that this change is due to the fact that, after attempts to increase taxes on the digital currency of the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, the company could generate losses.
