Add Anthony Di Iorio episode 16

source/_people/addison-cameron-huff.md

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 social:
   linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/addisoncameronhuff/
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+
+Addison Cameron-Huff was one of Ethereum's earliest lawyers during the project's Toronto phase.
+
+## Ethereum Canada
+
+Episode 16 adds Anthony Di Iorio's first-hand account of Huff's role. When Di Iorio created [Ethereum Canada Inc.](/articles/ethereum-canada-inc/) as a temporary Toronto legal vehicle in early 2014, he says he hired Addison Cameron-Huff as part of the effort to get the project organized and able to hire people.
+
+Di Iorio refers to Huff as his lawyer at the time and says he likes to think of him as "the first Ethereum lawyer we had."
+
+## Primary Sources
+
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)
+- [Ethereum Canada Inc.](/articles/ethereum-canada-inc/)

source/_people/amir-chetrit.md

@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ Amir was part of Ethereum's early business team alongside Charles Hoskinson, [Jo
 
 > "Amir Chetrit, who is in Israel, he kind of did business development. He's a funny guy. I still see him every once in a while. Joe, my dad, and Anthony Di Iorio [were] the other business guys who probably had the most operating experience." — Kieren James-Lubin
 
+Episode 16 adds Di Iorio's view that Amir was not a peripheral figure in the earliest months. Di Iorio describes him as part of the initial five-person founder group with Vitalik, Mihai, Charles, and himself, before Gavin, Jeff, and Joe were added.
+
+## Miami and the Presale Delay
+
+The strongest new detail from Episode 16 is Di Iorio's claim that Amir played a decisive role in stopping Ethereum from launching too early after the January 2014 Miami conference.
+
+Di Iorio says the team initially expected to move immediately, but that Amir objected when it became clear the sale could raise far more than expected. In his telling, Amir was the one person in the room with the common sense to say they had to slow down, rethink the structure, and make sure the project was set up properly before taking in money.
+
+That account complicates the later narrative around Amir. Whatever frustrations developed afterward, Di Iorio credits him with helping avoid a legally reckless early launch.
+
 ## Questions About Contribution
 
 As Ethereum's development progressed, some team members began questioning Amir's actual contributions. [Taylor Gerring](/people/taylor-gerring/) recalled the growing frustration:
@@ -61,3 +71,4 @@ This profile draws from multiple Early Days of Ethereum interviews:
 - [Episode 4](/videos/episode004-taylor-gerring/) with Taylor Gerring
 - [Episode 5](/videos/episode005-anthony-d-onofrio/) with Anthony D'Onofrio
 - [Episode 9](/videos/episode009-amir-taaki/) with Amir Taaki
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)

source/_people/charles-hoskinson.md

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 Charles Hoskinson is one of the eight Ethereum co-founders who served as Ethereum's short-lived CEO during the project's formative months. He was removed from leadership during the "[Red Wedding](/articles/red-wedding/)" in June 2014 and later co-founded [IOHK](https://iohk.io/) (IO Global) and the Cardano blockchain.
 
+## Path to Ethereum
+
+Episode 16 adds Anthony Di Iorio's account of how Hoskinson entered the Ethereum project. Before introducing him to Vitalik, Di Iorio says he already knew Charles through overlapping Bitcoin advocacy work: Di Iorio was organizing in Canada, while Hoskinson was doing Bitcoin education work in the United States.
+
+When Vitalik showed Di Iorio the white paper in late 2013, Di Iorio says much of it went over his head, so he showed it to Hoskinson for validation. In Di Iorio's recollection, Hoskinson immediately recognized the significance of the idea and said, in effect, "this is it." Di Iorio explicitly frames that moment as how Charles got brought into the mix.
+
 ## Miami Conference
 
 Charles was present at the Miami Bitcoin Conference on January 26, 2014, when [Vitalik Buterin](/people/vitalik-buterin/) first publicly announced Ethereum. He stayed at the house [Anthony Di Iorio](/people/anthony-di-iorio/) rented, appearing in the iconic team photo alongside Vitalik Buterin, Joe Lubin, Gavin Wood, Anthony Di Iorio and Taylor Gerring.
@@ -70,4 +76,5 @@ This profile draws from multiple Early Days of Ethereum sources:
 - [Taylor Gerring Photos](/articles/taylor-gerring-photos/)
 - [Red Wedding](/articles/red-wedding/)
 - [Episode 4](/videos/episode004-taylor-gerring/) with Taylor Gerring
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)
 - [The Cryptopians](/articles/the-cryptopians/) by Laura Shin

source/_people/dino-mark.md

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 Dino Mark was an early participant in the Ethereum community, involved from January 2014 during the project's pre-launch phase.
 
+## Toronto Bitcoin Scene
+
+Episode 16 pushes Dino's connection to the broader story back even earlier. Anthony Di Iorio says Dino Mark was present at his very first Toronto Bitcoin meetup in November 2012, alongside [Vitalik Buterin](/people/vitalik-buterin/) and [Peter Todd](/people/peter-todd/).
+
+That makes Dino part of the tiny initial Toronto Bitcoin circle out of which much of Ethereum's Canadian prehistory later emerged.
+
+## Miami House
+
+Dino also appears in the well-known Miami house photo from January 2014, placing him among the wider group physically present around Ethereum's first public announcement period.
+
+![The Ethereum team at the Miami house](/images/personal/taylor-gerring/taylor-gerring_2014.01.31.jpeg)
+
 ## The DAO and Ethereum Governance
 
 Dino Mark became notably known for co-authoring a paper in 2016 analyzing vulnerabilities in The DAO's smart contract code. Along with Vlad Zamfir and Emin Gün Sirer, he published "A Call for a Temporary Moratorium on The DAO" which warned of security issues before the June 2016 hack occurred. The paper identified several critical vulnerabilities and recommended that investors hold off from directing The DAO to invest in projects until the problems had been resolved.
+
+## Primary Sources
+
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)
+- [Taylor Gerring's photos from 2014](/articles/taylor-gerring-photos/)

source/_people/gavin-wood.md

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 > "Various other people sort of joined in on the efforts in December, including Gav and Jeff who started the C++ and Go clients, respectively, at the very end—at the very end of December, kind of Christmas projects for them both." — Bob Summerwill
 
+## Miami
+
+Episode 16 adds Anthony Di Iorio's account of how Gavin got to the January 2014 Miami conference. According to Di Iorio, Vitalik told him there was a promising developer in the UK who could not afford the trip, and Di Iorio paid for Gavin's ticket.
+
+Di Iorio also recalls that Miami was the first time he met Gavin in person and describes him as the workhorse of the house. While others were socializing, Gavin was coding intensely and, in Di Iorio's telling, got the first proof of concept out there.
+
 ## The Yellow Paper
 
 In April 2014, Gavin published the [Yellow Paper](/articles/yellow-paper/)—the formal mathematical specification of the Ethereum protocol. This document provided the rigorous technical foundation that enabled multiple independent implementations to achieve consensus.
@@ -90,3 +96,4 @@ This profile draws from multiple Early Days of Ethereum sources:
 - [Episode 6](/videos/episode006-christoph-jentzsch/) with Christoph Jentzsch
 - [Episode 7](/videos/episode007-jacob-czepluch/) with Jacob Czepluch
 - [Episode 12](/videos/episode012-fabian-vogelsteller/) with Fabian Vogelsteller
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)

source/_people/joe-lubin.md

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   twitter: https://x.com/ethereumJoseph
   wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lubin_(entrepreneur)
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+
+Joe Lubin is one of Ethereum's eight co-founders and the later founder of [ConsenSys](/articles/consensys/). In Ethereum's earliest months, he was one of the senior business figures around the project and later became one of the key financial backers of the ecosystem.
+
+## Joining Ethereum
+
+Episode 16 adds a concrete origin story for Lubin's entry into Ethereum. According to [Anthony Di Iorio](/people/anthony-di-iorio/), Lubin attended the January 1, 2014 launch event for Bitcoin Decentral while visiting Toronto for the holidays. Vitalik invited him back to the space a few days later, and he soon joined the trip to Miami for Ethereum's first public announcement.
+
+Di Iorio described him as someone who had retired from Wall Street, had been living in Jamaica, and immediately seemed like "a really interesting guy" who connected well with the emerging team.
+
+## Miami and the Early Team
+
+Lubin stayed at the Miami house Di Iorio rented for the January 2014 Bitcoin conference. Taylor Gerring's photos place him at the center of the scene around Vitalik's first public Ethereum presentation.
+
+![The crowd around Vitalik after his Miami announcement](/images/personal/taylor-gerring/taylor-gerring_2014.01.26.jpeg)
+
+*(Joe Lubin and Anthony Di Iorio can be seen next to Vitalik as the crowd encroaches - 26th January 2014. From [Taylor Gerring's photos](/articles/taylor-gerring-photos/))*
+
+Di Iorio also notes that Ethereum's very earliest bootstrap money came from his sale of Satoshi Circle, "before Joe Lubin put more money," placing Lubin in the next phase of early project funding.
+
+## Early Leadership
+
+[Kieren James-Lubin](/people/kieren-james-lubin/) later described the business side of early Ethereum this way:
+
+> "Joe, my dad, and Anthony Di Iorio [were] the other business guys who probably had the most operating experience." — Kieren James-Lubin
+
+During the June 2014 "[Red Wedding](/articles/red-wedding/)," Lubin was one of the founders Vitalik asked to continue in the post-shakeup leadership structure.
+
+## Later Work
+
+Lubin went on to found [ConsenSys](/articles/consensys/), which became the dominant commercial company in the Ethereum ecosystem for years and incubated or funded a large number of Ethereum-adjacent projects.
+
+## Primary Sources
+
+- [Episode 1](/videos/episode001/) with Victor Wong, Kieren James-Lubin, and James Hormuzdiar
+- [Episode 4](/videos/episode004-taylor-gerring/) with Taylor Gerring
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)
+- [Taylor Gerring's photos from 2014](/articles/taylor-gerring-photos/)

source/_people/mihai-alisie.md

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 [Viktor Trón](/people/viktor-tron/) also met Mihai at an early London Ethereum meetup organized by [Stephan Tual](/people/stephan-tual/) in 2014.
 
+Anthony Di Iorio's interview adds that he viewed Mihai as part of the initial five-person founder group and thought of him primarily then as Vitalik's Bitcoin Magazine partner working remotely from Romania.
+
+## Remote Constraints
+
+Episode 16 also adds a practical detail about Mihai's early involvement: visa issues limited his travel. Di Iorio says Mihai could not attend the Miami conference and also could not make it to the Bitcoin Expo event in Canada, meaning that some of Ethereum's earliest in-person gatherings happened without one of its core co-founders physically present.
+
 ## Founding the Legal Entities
 
 Mihai was instrumental in establishing Ethereum's Swiss legal structure:
@@ -94,3 +100,4 @@ This profile draws from multiple Early Days of Ethereum sources:
 - [Crypto Valley](/articles/crypto-valley/)
 - [Episode 4](/videos/episode004-taylor-gerring/) with Taylor Gerring
 - [Episode 10](/videos/episode010-viktor-tron/) with Viktor Trón
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)

source/_people/peter-todd.md

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 Todd became involved in the cypherpunk community as a teenager, communicating with figures like Adam Back and Hal Finney. He became a Bitcoin Core contributor and was known for his work on transaction fee policies, replace-by-fee (RBF), and his advocacy for keeping Bitcoin's block size small during the scalability debates of 2015-2017.
 
+## Toronto Bitcoin Scene
+
+Episode 16 adds a small but useful detail to Todd's Canadian Bitcoin history. Anthony Di Iorio says Peter Todd was present at the very first Toronto Bitcoin meetup in November 2012, placing him inside the tiny early community from which Vitalik Buterin, Di Iorio, and other future Ethereum figures were already starting to intersect.
+
 ## OpenTimestamps
 
 Todd created OpenTimestamps, an open-source project for creating provable timestamps using the Bitcoin blockchain. The system allows anyone to create a cryptographic proof that a piece of data existed at a certain point in time.

source/_people/richard-goldglass.md

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 name: Richard Goldglass
+description: Early Ethereum operations and HR
 photo: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C4E03AQFCCEVtFOuJbw/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0/1547650499142?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=L52U46UQQeKDxCheeGkyn7ggnBNbvGDhpQWq72K0-JI
+start: Feb 2014
 ---
+
+Richard Goldglass was, in Anthony Di Iorio's telling, the first HR hire associated with Ethereum's Toronto phase.
+
+## Ethereum Canada
+
+When Di Iorio incorporated [Ethereum Canada Inc.](/articles/ethereum-canada-inc/) in early 2014 as a temporary structure for hiring and organizing work, he says Goldglass was hired as "our first HR guy."
+
+That places Goldglass in the earliest operational layer around Ethereum, before the Swiss legal structure took over as the project's main institutional base.
+
+## Primary Sources
+
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)
+- [Ethereum Canada Inc.](/articles/ethereum-canada-inc/)

source/_people/steve-dakh.md

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 Steve Dakh was listed as a developer on the original Ethereum announcement, through his role at KryptoKit. He was one of the earliest people involved in the project.
 
+## Satoshi Circle
+
+Episode 16 adds substantial detail about Dakh's pre-Ethereum work with [Anthony Di Iorio](/people/anthony-di-iorio/). According to Di Iorio, Dakh posted on Reddit in late 2012 looking for someone with Bitcoin business ideas. Di Iorio replied, flew to New Jersey two days later, and the two quickly partnered on a provably fair gambling product called Satoshi Circle.
+
+Di Iorio later bought Dakh out and sold the business for thousands of bitcoin. He says the proceeds from that sale became the earliest bootstrap funding for Ethereum.
+
+## KryptoKit and Early Ethereum
+
+After Satoshi Circle, Dakh and Di Iorio moved into wallet infrastructure with Rush Wallet and then KryptoKit. This helps explain why Dakh appeared in Ethereum's earliest public materials: he was part of the Toronto cluster of wallet builders, meetup organizers, and Bitcoin Decentral collaborators around Di Iorio and Vitalik.
+
 ## Original BitcoinTalk Announcement
 
 Steve was mentioned in the [original BitcoinTalk](https://web.archive.org/web/20140208053651/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428589.0) post in January 2014, although his role there was later [written out of history](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428589.0), along with many others:
 
 *"Steve Dakh - Developer (KryptoKit)"*
 
 KryptoKit was a Bitcoin wallet browser extension co-founded by Anthony Di Iorio. Steve's inclusion in the original announcement reflects the close ties between Ethereum's founding team and the KryptoKit/Bitcoin Decentral community in Toronto, where much of the early organizational work for Ethereum took place.
+
+## Miami House
+
+Dakh also appears in the well-known Miami house photo from January 2014, placing him physically inside Ethereum's earliest pre-launch circle.
+
+![The Ethereum team at the Miami house](/images/personal/taylor-gerring/taylor-gerring_2014.01.31.jpeg)
+
+## Primary Sources
+
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)
+- [Taylor Gerring's photos from 2014](/articles/taylor-gerring-photos/)
+- [The Great Deletion](/articles/the-great-deletion/)

source/_people/william-mougayar.md

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   linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williammougayar
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+William Mougayar was an early Ethereum advisor, writer, and one of the first outsiders to encounter the project in person.
+
+## Bitcoin Decentral
+
+Episode 16 adds a useful origin point for Mougayar's connection to Ethereum. Bob Summerwill notes there that the January 1, 2014 opening of Bitcoin Decentral was William's very first day around the project: the first day he met [Vitalik Buterin](/people/vitalik-buterin/) and the first day he began getting pulled into Ethereum's orbit.
+
+[Anthony Di Iorio](/people/anthony-di-iorio/) adds that the opening of William's later book begins with him walking up the steps of Bitcoin Decentral, underscoring how central that Toronto venue was to his first impression of Ethereum.
+
+## Later Role
+
+Mougayar became one of Ethereum's best-known early interpreters and communicators, helping explain the project's significance to a broader audience of entrepreneurs, investors, and developers.
+
+## Primary Sources
+
+- [Episode 16: Anthony Di Iorio](/videos/episode016-anthony-di-iorio/)