In 2013, a brilliant 19-year-old Russian-Canadian writer named Vitalik Buterin looked at Bitcoin and realized it was like a pocket calculator: brilliant at one specific task (transferring money), but incapable of doing anything else. He set out to build Ethereum—the world's first global, decentralized computer.
The Universal Smart Contract
Buterin realized that if you could replace Bitcoin's narrow scripting language with a **Turing-complete programming language**, you could write self-executing agreements called **Smart Contracts**. These contracts compile code directly on a global blockchain, completely bypassing brokers, banks, and corporate servers.
Ethereum transformed the internet, spawning **DApps (Decentralized Applications)**, decentralized finance (DeFi), and autonomous organizations, turning the global web into a trustless computer run by the community.
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Who created Ethereum and what is it?
Ethereum was co-created in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin. Unlike Bitcoin, which is a payment network, Ethereum is a decentralized global computing platform powered by "Smart Contracts" that execute custom programming code autonomously across a distributed blockchain.
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