Ric Burton got 10k ETH from Buterin for a month of work in 2014

Web3 designer Ric Burton shared how Vitalik Buterin sent him 10,000 Ethereum (ETH) in 2016 as compensation for Buton’s one-month work in 2014 via a thread he posted on Twitter.

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Burton’s story starts in 2014, just after he got “kicked out of a profitable company” he co-founded. While listening to Bitcoin-related podcasts, Burton says he heard Buterin say “I want to build a blockchain that I can run programs on.”