Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of BlockchainsThe ideas behind Ethereum in the words of its founder, describing a radical vision for more than a digital currencyreinventing organisations, economics, and democracy itself in the age of the internet. At only nineteen years old Vitalik Buterin published a visionary paper outlining the ideas behind what would become Ethereum. He proposed to take what Bitcoin did for currency to end the central control of governments and corporations and apply it to