Anthony Di Iorio was one of the original founders of the Ethereum project, which received ample attention in 2016 as it passed a billion dollar market cap for the first time. Technology firms both inside and outside the Bitcoin industry are exploring the ways in which non-financial applications and Ethereum-based projects could change our world.
Di Iorio, for the most part, has been at the heart of this in Canada. The nation’s most-headlined FinTech project has been the Royal Canadian Mint’s MintChip project, which recently sold to nanoPay. But Di Iorio has commanded a large part of the remaining attention in Canada on Bitcoin and blockchain.
Now he wants to turn Canada into a financial giant and center of innovation around Bitcoin and blockchain technology.
Di Iorio, who purchased his first bitcoins in 2012 on LocalBitcoins, has enjoyed a colorful history in Bitcoin. He founded Bitcoin Alliance of Canada and the first Toronto Bitcoin Meetup. The Bitcoin Alliance is a non-profit organization tasked with increasing Bitcoin awareness and adoption in Canada.
He started the Toronto Bitcoin community meetup where he met Vitalik Buterin and Peter Todd and got the idea for the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada amid constant press attention on Bitcoin. He saw news anchors giving people the wrong idea about Bitcoin and saw the value in education.
Di Iorio also launched in 2013 the first Bitcoin Chrome wallet extension, CryptoKit, and co-founded Ethereum with Buterin and others in the summer of 2014. They focused on Ethereum for some time, and recent price action and collaborations have cemented the legitimacy of the project.
At the beginning of 2014, he launched Decentral, an “innovation hub for disruptive and decentralized technologies.” The firm offers blockchain and financial technology consulting services and software development.
Di Iorio recently became chief digital officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Decentral has […]
