# Cut and try: building a dream

DevFeed: [Cut and try: building a dream](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cut-and-try-building-a-dream-16746.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/02/09/cut-and-try-building-a-dream>)

Author: Taylor Gerring

Published: 2016-02-09T16:16:46Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/blockchain.md>), [Bitcoin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bitcoin.md>)

Tags: [anniversary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anniversary.md>), [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [bitcoin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bitcoin.md>), [blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blockchain.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [industry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/industry.md>), [innovation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/innovation.md>), [interest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interest.md>), [organizational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational.md>), [white-paper](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/white-paper.md>)

## AI overview

Ethereum's two-year anniversary prompts a retrospective on its public announcement, the early blockchain ecosystem, and the motivation to move from ideas in a white paper toward building a blockchain-driven system.

## Source excerpt

Last month marked the 2 year anniversary of Ethereum's public announcement at The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, Florida, USA. Amid much rumour and excitement, a sizeable crowd mobbed the young Vitalik Buterin after his on-stage announcement, questioning the merit and his desire to build such a system. ...