Only a year and a half ago, Vitalik had written down the basic structure for what he thought could take cryptocurrencies further, and Gavin had refined the concept in his Yellow Paper so that it could be put into the language of computers. Dozens of developers, designers, and bloggers, and then hundreds of speculators around the world had come together, in many cases dropping whole carriers, uprooting themselves, leaving personal lives in shambles, living off savings, to make that moment possible.
