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This series originally aired in 2021.

January 2014, Florida, one month before the fall of Mt. Gox.

Vitalik Bitorin steps out of the Miami Beach Convention Center into the bright sunshine.

He pauses as the humid air embraces his spindly body like a warm bath.

Bitorin is 19, and he's just made his public speaking debut at the North American Bitcoin

Conference.

When he walked on stage, this Russian Canadian brainy act was just another crypto geek.

Now, he and his revolutionary blockchain project Ethereum are the toast of the scene.

A dozen jubilant men follow Bitorin outside.

They're his disciples, a rag-tag gang of programmers whose brains lit up when they read

Bitorin's proposal for Ethereum.

Now, they're helping him to turn his idea into functioning computer code.

One of the gang, a bald man in his 40s, catches up with Bitorin.

Vitalik, our ubers are here.

Come on, let's get back to the house and celebrate.

Bitorin follows the man into one of the waiting Toyota's.

Before he can shut the door, a younger member of the team scurries over.

Room for one more?

The Lanky Bitorin shunts over to let him squeeze in.

As the uber pulls away from the curb, the younger developer grins at Bitorin.

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