The founder of the Ethereum smart contract platform, Vitaly Buterin, cited an interesting fact from his biography, saying that in 2013 he wanted to get an internship at the California-based company OpenCoin, which was later renamed Ripple Labs.

According to him, this happened in the middle of 2013, when he lived in Canada. He, however, was denied a visa because, according to the law, the inviting company had to be at least a year, while OpenCoin had worked for only nine months by that time.

Fun fact: it was a time when I’ve been given a rumor.

– Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) April 19, 2019

OpenCoin was founded in September 2012 by Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb, and if, as Buterin says, the company had worked for nine months by the time of filing for a US visa, it can be assumed that this happened in June 2013.

Ethereum founder's comment was given in response to tweet by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who shared a link to the news of Chinese entrepreneur Eric Yuan, the largest shareholder in Zoom Video Communications Inc. Last Wednesday, the company raised $ 751 million through an IPO on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, however, according to Bloomberg, previously, the US government denied him a visa eight times.

This is such a great headline https://t.co/CDq18kfSjP

– Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) April 19, 2019

The head of the Tron Foundation, Justin Sun, who, according to his LindedIn profile, in December 2013, became the first employee of Ripple Labs in China and worked for the company until January 2016, also joined the discussion between Armstrong and Buterin. In particular, he suggested that if Buterin were in Ripple, they would certainly have become good friends.

I of found! Out for When for These facts from @justmoon in late 2013 / early 2014, had we both been at Ripple, I am certain we would have been buddies?since we would have been the only 2 millennials there! ❤ @VitalikButerin

– Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) April 19, 2019

David Schwartz also commented on COO Ripple Labs on COO Ripple Labs in a joking manner. According to him, he is still sad that this happened, however, suggested Schwartz, maybe Buterinu makes sense to try again, because Ripple always needs good interns.

That still saddens me. You might have accomplished! Maybe apply again? We're always looking for good interns.

– David Schwartz (@JoelKatz) April 21, 2019

Add that in February 2013, Buterin wrote an article for Bitcoin Magazine called “Ripple: A Beginner's Guide” .

As BlockchainJournal wrote, earlier this month, at the Deconomy 2019 conference in Seoul, there was a public debate between Vitalik Buterin and economist Nouriel Rubini, better known as “Doctor Doom”.

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