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How did Vitalik Buterin get so good at the development of blockchains and cryptocurrencies? : ethereum

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I worked with Vitalik on colored coins project in 2012-2013. For those who do not know, it's a way to issue tokens on top of Bitcoin. Vitalik joined after I already implemented the base layer and started working on p2ptrade -- trustless exchange. IIRC Vitalik picked up the concept very quickly -- I didn't need to go into lengthy explanation of what it is and how it works -- and helped with some components. I can't say his coding was on a genius level, it was actually pretty sloppy at times. The remarkable thing is that he was very fast to find a pragmatic way to apply various concepts,…

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