Ever wonder about the origin story of the guy who built Ethereum? Vitalik Buterin's background is actually pretty interesting when you dig into it.

He was born January 31, 1994, in Kolomna, which is near Moscow. Both his parents were programmers, so you could say coding was kind of in the DNA from the start. But here's where it gets interesting - his parents split in 1997, and his mom decided to make a fresh start in Canada. Vitalik and his father followed her there when he was just 6 years old.

So there's this young Vitalik growing up in Canada with a programmer dad, and it wasn't long before he got introduced to the world of cryptocurrencies. According to Canadian Business, it was actually his father who first showed him the crypto space. Pretty cool that his dad was the one to open that door for him.

Thinking about Vitalik Buterin's age now - he's 32 - it's wild to realize how much he accomplished while still pretty young. The whole Ethereum thing started when he was in his late teens, early twenties. Not bad for someone who got into crypto thanks to his programmer father's influence. His early exposure to both programming and cryptocurrency basically set the stage for everything that came after.