当比特币的价格在2011年首次突破1美元时, few people could have imagined that a new wave of digital gold rush was about to unfold. Just as the world was still grappling with Bitcoin's revolutionary concept, a young programmer Vitalik Buterin proposed a blockchain platform called Ethereum in 2013. Its "smart contract" functionality opened up a world of possibilities beyond simple transactions, and with it came a new opportunity for early miners to accumulate wealth in ways that seemed almost unimaginable at the time. This article delves into the untold stories of those who mined Ethereum in its infancy and how their efforts translated into life-changing fortunes.

以太坊的诞生:不只是“比特币2.0”

2013年,19岁的Vitalik Buterin在《比特币杂志》担任撰稿人期间,敏锐地意识到比特币的局限性:它只能作为一种点对点的电子现金系统,无法实现更复杂的逻辑运算,他提出了一个革命性的想法——构建一个“可编程的区块链”,允许开发者在其上部署去中心化应用(DApps)和智能合约,2014年,以太坊项目通过众筹正式启动,以太币(ETH)作为平台原生代币诞生,其核心机制“工作量证明”(PoW)为早期“挖矿”创造了条件。 随机配图