Ethereum [ETH] The founder Vitalik Buterin receives an honorary degree from the University of Basel

Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, has a new title to his name. He is now Dr. Vitalik Buterin. This after the University of Basel, he decided to honor his innovations in the blockchain space by awarding him an honorary doctorate.

Its results have been recognized by the Faculty of Economics and Business of the university as part of He dies Academicus, its annual celebration commemorating the founding of the university. In response, Vitalik said:

"I am honored to have received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel, Switzerland's oldest university, and Switzerland is well known for its innovative blockchain research."

Dr. Buterin left his academic studies four years ago to pursue his blockchain interests, abandoning his first year at the University of Waterloo in Canada. In a previous interview, he revealed that at the time the blockchain took up more than 30 hours in a week. His time was split between writing for Bitcoin Magazine (he was the main writer for the magazine) and he also held a publishing position at Ledger, which was an academic journal of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

After leaving college, he decided to use his savings to travel the world and find out what his colleagues were working on.

"I went around the world, I explored many cryptographic projects, and I finally realized that they were too concerned about specific applications and were not general enough – hence the birth of Ethereum, which has since been taking my life".

He published the Ethereum whitepaper in 2013 and titled it "A new generation smart contract and a platform for decentralized applications." Two months later, he was chosen for a Fellowship Thiel prize that earned him $ 100,000 for his innovation and his contribution to the blockchain space. At the time he was 19 years old. Since then he has won some other prizes in the technological space.

The assignment of Buterin to the honorary doctorate of yesterday was the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Basel Prof. Dr. Aleksander Berentsen. His description of the prodigy included words like "Changing game" when he refers to his innovations in the blockchain space and added that Buterin has "It paved the way for science and industry to follow and work together".

The university then tweeted the award on their social media page saying:

"He's an exceptionally creative and innovative thinker who has helped shape the digital revolution from an early age."

Our most sincere congratulations Dr. Buterin.