The programmers included Mihai Alisie, a Bitcoin Magazine co-founder, Anthony Di Iorio, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and Charles Hoskinson, who would later go on to create Cardano. Gavin Wood, a British programmer, co-founded the project and contributed to the design and implementation of its smart contract language, Solidity. Joseph Lubin, an American entrepreneur, co-founded Ethereum and went on to establish ConsenSys, a blockchain software technology company that focuses on building decentralized applications. Ethereum Price Faces Crucial Test: Will $2,440 Withstand the Pressure? The reason you've been hearing about bitcoin for years, but Ethereum only recently, is that the latter was only developed two years ago while bitcoin's been around for almost eight years. Ethereum was created by Vitalik Buterin, a young programmer who was told about bitcoin by his father and decided to create a platform for smart contracts; which bitcoin is not designed to do. The Moscow native began working on Ethereum after he dropped out of college, according to CNBC.
High: 4,811.6100 on 09/11/2021 What is the current trading activity of Ethereum? Despite the fact that both Ethereum and Bitcoin differ greatly from each other in terms of their fundamentals and valuation but move hand-in-hand when it comes to the price fluctuations in the crypto market. While Bitcoin rallied from around $29,000 to an all-time high of $64,804 on April 14, 2021, Ethereum’s price chart too followed a similar trajectory, pushing it to new highs in May 2021.