“I started coding when I was eight years old. Up until that point I was building Lego, so it was a pretty obvious transition”. Meet Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Polkadot and Kusama networks.
) is Gavin Wood, who joined a group led by Vitalik Buterin that set out to build Bitcoin's competition. Wood is the computer scientist who wrote the first smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain back in 2014. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Wood admitted that at the time, he just needed a job.
He first discovered Bitcoin via The Silk Road, the online black market that ran from 2011 to 2013. The cryptocurrency originally"took his fancy" for being"a purely algorithmic mechanism for human cooperation and interaction" that, according to Wood,"allows for the creation of social structures that we haven't seen yet."
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