V God is shortlisted for Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2021

Time Magazine named Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin one of the year's most influential people, along with musicians, world leaders, activists, and more.

In Time Magazine's list of 2021 innovators, Buterin was shortlisted along with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tesla CEO and Dogecoin supporter Elon Musk, and others. In his introduction to the Ethereum co-founder, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian mentioned Buterin's role in building Ethereum into a network with a market cap of more than $400 billion and encouraging decentralized applications and non-fungible tokens ( The role played in the development of NFT).

Ohanian said: “No one person can come up with all the uses for ethereum, but it does take one person’s idea to get started. Since then, a new world has opened up with new ways of utilizing blockchain technology. "

The long-established magazine appears to have become more open, both covering the crypto space and embracing it in its own business. In March, Time magazine said it was looking for a chief financial officer "familiar with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies," and auctioned off three NFTs inspired by some of its magazine covers.

The following month, the magazine further incorporated cryptocurrencies into its business, announcing that it would accept cryptocurrencies as payment for digital subscriptions. Additionally, Time said it would hold bitcoin on its balance sheet as part of a partnership with fund manager Grayscale — a payment it received for an educational video series with Grayscale.

“Time hasn’t even gotten to the first stage of what we want to do with cryptocurrencies,” the company’s president, Keith Grossman, said in a Sept. 13 interview.

"Time" was founded in 1923 and has always been an institution introducing influential people and companies in the United States. According to Time, it has 20 million weekly subscribers worldwide.

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