Taylor Gerring was trying to build applications on top of Bitcoin in Chicago but he quit that, gave away his dog, broke up with his girlfriend, and bought a one-way ticket to Switzerland. It was a similar path for Mathias Groennebaek, who came from Denmark; Stephan Tual, who came from London; Lorenzo Patuzzo, who had rented out the room for Mihai and Vitalik in Barcelona and decided to jump on the blockchain train; and for the rest of the ten or so early team members. They were web and graphic designers and programmers who gambled everything on what was still just an idea in a white paper
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