Key Takeaways
- Vitalik Buterin voted as one of the top 100 most influential people on Times Magazine
- Time Magazine noted Buterin’s contribution towards making Ethereum the second-biggest cryptocurrency based on marketcap
- Time Magazine has increasingly adopted cryptocurrency in recent months
Times Magazine is known for its top 100 most influencer people in the world list that it publishes every year.
This year’s edition is of particular interest to the blockchain industry due to the presence of Vitalik Buterin, the famous co-founder of Ethereum.
The magazine published a laudatory description of Buterin written by Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit.
Ohanian noted that Buterin had created value with Ethereum and led the blockchain protocol to a market valuation of around $400 billion.
Thanks to the rise of Ether, Buterin has become one of the few crypto billionaires.
His fortune is estimated to be $1 billion or 275,856 ETH at the time of publication.
He also receives an annual salary of 127,000 euros from the Ethereum Foundation.
Ohanian further noted that the explosion in the popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and DeFi would not have existed without the bright mind of Buterin.
Buterin joined the list of other personalities such as Jensen Huan, CEO of Nvidia; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and US president Joe Biden.
Times Magazine is considered a prestigious institution in the United States and is gradually opening up to the cryptocurrency sector.
The magazine has recently begun to accept Bitcoin (BTC) and 21 other cryptocurrencies, including Ether (ETH), as a means of payment for its digital subscriptions.
It has also added Bitcoin to its portfolio as part of a partnership with digital asset manager Grayscale.
Time Magazine has also made no secret of its interest in NFTs. The magazine sold three of its iconic covers as NFT for $450,000.
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