Peter Thiel—Awarded $100K Thiel Fellowship to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin
In June 2014, Peter Thiel awarded a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship (paid over two years) to Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum. The Thiel Fellowship, announced in 2010, provides funding to young entrepreneurs to skip college and pursue innovative projects. Buterin used this support to develop Ethereum, which became the second-largest cryptocurrency and a foundational platform for decentralized applications and smart contracts. Ethereum is open-source technology.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Access & Information Freedom | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Open Source | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.221 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (low ×0.5) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
Awarded $100K Thiel Fellowship to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin
In June 2014, Peter Thiel awarded a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship (paid over two years) to Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum. The Thiel Fellowship, announced in 2010, provides funding to young entrepreneurs to skip college and pursue innovative projects. Buterin used this support to develop Ethereum, which became the second-largest cryptocurrency and a foundational platform for decentralized applications and smart contracts. Ethereum is open-source technology.