$gopher was inspired by go-
lang’s own mascot! Peter
szilagy, ethereum’s team lead
and the creator of the ethereum
gopher consistently coded using
go lang and through this he was
inspired to create ethereum’s
very own mascot in 2016-
the ethereum gopher!
About GOPHER
Proof Of Gopher
Name evidence
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This tweet by
the eth team
lead, peter
szilagyi
clearly proves
that the name is
the “ethereum
gopher” ...The
original tweet
can be viewed by
clicking here!
Additionally through inspecting
the source code of the images on the
go-eth website we can see that it is
stated that the mascot’s name is
gopher. Since peter created the
gopher and announced him as the
ethereum gopher we can conclude
that the official name is the
Ethereum gopher!
Mascot evidence
“What is this characters name?”
“How do you know it’s the mascot of ethereum?”
The ethereum gopher can also be found on the official ethereum blog
from 2016, When saving the photo of the gopher, the filename from the
website’s backend is “images_posts_mascot” and the word mascot is
clearly visible! View the blog and try saving it for yourself here!
history of gopher!
How do you know it’s the first mascot of ethereum?
2009
2016
2017
The golang gopher is
the inspiration for
the eth gopher and is
the official mascot
for programming
language golang-
The ethereum gopher
was launched by peter
szilagy and is
labelled as a mascot
on ethereum’s
official blog on
november 17, 2016
Launched before on eth and
advertised as eth mascot but was
made before eth even existed
never launched on ethereum and all
evidence proves it is the first and
official ethereum mascot
Launched before and claimed to be the first
ethereum mascot but timestamps on the eth
blog show the eth gopher was first
Puppeth was also
developed by peter
szilagy in the vibe of
all the gophers but was
published after the eth
gopher on april 14,
2017.