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Vitalik and me standing on the top of Montserrat near Calafou, near Barcelona. Often people asked me in the past: “What do you do with/for Ethereum?”. I always had a hard time answering this. The reason is, that I was kind of involved in Ethereum even before there was a name for it. So let me try to explain my connection to Ethereum a bit… About a year and a half ago in autumn 2013, I was working as the lead developer with Vitalik Buterin (who later became the initiator of the Ethereum project) on another project with the name ‘Keidom’ (now called ascribe.io). The idea behind Keidom/Ascribe was to develop a custom colored-coin web-wallet for registering and transfering digital art in a secure way, based on the Bitcoin blockchain, with build-in proof-of-existence. We developed a working prototype during September and November 2013. Source: <a href="https://medium.com/@yanislav/king-of-bitcoin-godfather-of-ethereum-a9af9ecf56d5" target="_blank">medium.com/@yanislav</a>