They were web and graphic designers and programmers who gambled everything on what was still just an idea in a white paper written by a nineteen-year-old. Job titles would be figured out along the way, depending on the project’s needs and the person’s abilities, and there were no salaries. They were all working for free on the unwritten promise they’d get some of the cryptocurrency raised in the eventual crowdsale, while Anthony Di Iorio’s, and later Joe Lubin’s, loans paid for major expenses.