Ethereum was announced at the North American Bitcoin Conference

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Ethereum was formally announced at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami on January 25, 2014.

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January 25, 2014

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To frame things appropriately, consider that Ethereum was formally announced on January 25, 2014.

A couple months later, the people who were really on board with the idea flew out to the Bitcoin conference in Miami, where many of them met in person for the first time. Buterin described Ethereum on stage, and the audience rewarded him with a lengthy standing ovation

The foundational gathering, in the Ethereum creation story, occurred at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, in January, 2014. These serious people decided to rent a beach house, and there, in a week or so, banged out a fuller sense of what Ethereum, Buterin’s “computer in the sky,” as he described it to me, might become.

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Week 04 of 2014