Vitalik Buterin was born in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia, to Dmitry Buterin, a computer scientist, and Natalia Ameline (née Chistyakova). He lived in the area until the age of six when his parents emigrated to Canada in search of better employment opportunities. While in grade three of elementary school in Canada, Buterin was placed into a class for gifted children and started to understand that he was drawn to math, programming, and economics.

At less than 30 years of Age, Buterin is already a Millionaire, worth around $100 Million USD.

8 Interesting things to know about Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum)

1. Vitalik Buterin was born January 31, 1994 (26 years old)

2. Buterin first described Ethereum in a white paper in late 2013. Buterin argued that bitcoin needed a scripting language for application development. But when he failed to gain agreement, he proposed development of a new platform with a more general scripting language. That was how Ethereum was born.

3. Buterin is a University Drop-Out. He dropped out of University of Waterloo in 2014 at the age of 20 to focus his attention on Ethereum and other projects.

4. Buterin main source of wealth is the hundreds of thousands of Ethereum tokens he was able to hold on to from the cryptocurrency’s pre-mine.

5. As Buterin was recognizing the economic and political relevance of the Ethereum enterprise for his native Russia, he met with Vladimir Putin(Russia President) on June 2, 2017, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) event. The president of Russia stated that he "supported the idea of establishing ties with possible Russian partners".

6. Outside of his cryptocurrency holdings, Vitalik Buterin has also disclosed that he earns a six-figure salary from the Ethereum Foundation. The last time he commented about his salary he revealed he was making roughly $144,000 per year.

7. Donation of $763,970 worth of Ether to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in 2017. Donation of $2.4 million worth of Ether to the SENS Research Foundation in 2018, for the research on rejuvenation biotechnologies and human life extension. Donation of $1 million worth of Ether in conjunction with the Ethereum-based OmiseGO open payment platform to the GiveDirectly organization aimed at helping the poorest of poor refugees in Africa, in 2018.

8. Buterin was listed among Forbes 30 under 30 list, 2018 award. Means 30 people that are under 30 years that are Wealthy and doing great stuff around the World.