AUSTIN, TEXAS – Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, said he’s observed a growing influence on crypto technology from teams in Asia – a marked departure from the past, where most development was taking place in the West.
“Five years ago, it felt like East Asia had great exchanges and great mining but, you know, very little contribution to the dev and research side,” Buterin on Wednesday told attendees of the Permissionless crypto conference in Austin, Texas. “And I feel like that has really massively flipped.”
Buterin was speaking remotely, beamed in via projection screens from a location in Asia, he said.
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