Vitalik Buterin listed in Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2021

Time magazine has named Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin one of the most influential people this year in the innovator’s category.

Vitalik Buterin listed in Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2021

Appearing in the list of Time’s innovators for 2021, Buterin is named along with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and others. 

In his profile on the Ethereum co-founder, Alexis Ohanian - the Reddit co-founder - cited Buterin’s role in building the Ethereum network to a market capitalization of more than $400 billion and encouraging the development of decentralized apps and NFTs.

“No one person could’ve possibly come up with all of the uses for Ethereum, but it did take one person’s idea to get it started,” said Ohanian adding, “From there, a new world has opened up, and given rise to new ways of leveraging blockchain technology.”

The long-running & major influential magazine has seemingly become more open to both reporting on the crypto space and accepting it in its own business. In March, Time said it would be seeking a chief financial officer who has comfort with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and auctioned three NFTs inspired by some of its magazine covers.

The following month, the magazine further integrated cryptocurrencies into its business by announcing it would accept crypto payments for digital subscriptions. In addition, as part of a partnership with fund manager Grayscale, Time said it would be holding Bitcoin on its balance sheets.

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