Who were the people in Ethereum’s launch day photo? And where did they go?

Who were the people in Ethereum’s launch day photo? And where did they go?

Launch day photo by Lefteris

This photo was taken by developer Lefteris Karapetsas 9 years ago during Ethereum’s launch day. He went on to found Rotki, a portfolio tracker.

Starting from Vitalik and going clockwise.

Most of these descriptions are from Lefteris’s Twitter post, and I added some notes of my own:

Vitalik – Just some guy. Currently an Ethereum Researcher. Gustav Simonsson – Worked on Ethereum a bit and then went on to Dfinity (ICP) Christian Reitwiessner – Creator of Solidity. Lead dev of the C++ team for EF Liana Husikyan – Solidity and main dev of Remix Christoph Jentsch – Ethereum testing suite. Founder of slockit. Creator of the DAO. Now CEO at Corpus Ventures and Tokenize Gavin Wood – Ethereum co-founder, and co-creator of Solidity. Founder of Polkadot. Author of the Ethereum Yellow Paper. Vlad Gluchowski – Worked in Whisper. Kelley Becker – Was on the project for a very brief time. Vlad Zamfir – Ethereum researcher. Lead architect for Ethereum’s Casper consensus protocol. Felix Lange – Go Ethereum dev. Frithjof Weinert – Was briefly CFO for at EF. Fabian Vogelsteller – Ethereum developer mainly focused on web3.js and mist. Now Founder/CEO of LUKSO. Aeron Buchanan – Ethereum developer/research. Later went on to work with Gavin to found Parity. Lefteris Karapetsas Worked on Solidity compiler and its C++ client at the time. Ethereum developer. Jutta Steiner – Ethereum developer. Later went on to work on Parity with Gavin. Yann Levreau – Worked on Remix and is still part of the same team.

It’s interesting that several of these went onto work on Polkadot and Parity. Gavin certainly had a lot of early influence.

Other notes:

Solidity is the main smart contract developer language for Ethereum VM Remix is a very popular tool for quickly compiling and deploying EVM smart contracts

submitted by /u/HSuke
[link] [comments]

Comments

No comments yet. Why don’t you start the discussion?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *