Ethereum white paper turns 11, celebrating blockchain’s ‘foundational’ layer

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The first iteration of Ethereum’s foundational technical document, the white paper, has turned 11 years old.

The first iteration of the document, also called the “proto-white paper” was first shared by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in November 2013, in an email titled ‘Introducing Ethereum: a generalized smart contract/DAC platform.’

This marks the first time the Ethereum white paper was shared, although Buterin made some minor changes, before releasing the first version on Ethereum’s website, called a “next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform,” inspired by Satoshi Nakamoto’s development of the Bitcoin network in 2009.

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