More Money: What is Ethereum and How Blockchain is Changing the World

In 2013, nineteen-year-old programmer Vitalik Buterin published the concept of a new platform for creating online services based on blockchain. In ten years, Ethereum has become not only the second most popular cryptocurrency but also the foundation for a whole world of decentralized applications, smart contracts, and NFT art.

In his articles, Buterin reflects on the development of the crypto economy and the key ideas behind it — from the peculiarities of the Ethereum protocol to game theory, public goods funding, and the creation of autonomous network organizations. How can blockchain services help people achieve common goals? Can cryptocurrencies replace traditional financial instruments? Do they lead to the construction of a beautiful new world where power belongs not to governments and corporations, but to people united by common values and interests, or do they serve as a source of inequality and cynical financial speculation?

In this book, Buterin appears as an engaged thinker, a deep social theorist, and an activist who reflects on the fact that there is much more money, is not afraid to ask difficult questions, and offers solutions to controversial issues.