President Putin met with Ethereum creator, Vitalik Buterin at the SPIEF 2017 event in St. Petersburg, Russia, which took place between the 1st and 3rd of June. Details of the meeting are quite scarce.
Last week at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) , Vitalik Buterin, the creator of the Ethereum platform which runs atop a blockchain to facilitate smart contract functionality, met with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. The brief meeting coincided with an announcement by the Russian Central Bank saying it wants a national cryptocurrency.
On the President’s website in a post titled ‘Meeting the founder of Ethereum project Vitalik Buterin’ it says:
While Buterin did comment on Reddit about the meeting, there’s was no information on his behalf which suggested what the conversation was about. You can see Mr Buterin in the video, on the President’s website, sitting half a dozen or so seats to the left of President Putin.
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