Steve Dakh was listed as a developer on the original Ethereum announcement, through his role at KryptoKit. He was one of the earliest people involved in the project.
Satoshi Circle
Episode 16 adds substantial detail about Dakh's pre-Ethereum work with Anthony Di Iorio. According to Di Iorio, Dakh posted on Reddit in late 2012 looking for someone with Bitcoin business ideas. Di Iorio replied, flew to New Jersey two days later, and the two quickly partnered on a provably fair gambling product called Satoshi Circle.
Di Iorio later bought Dakh out and sold the business for thousands of bitcoin. He says the proceeds from that sale became the earliest bootstrap funding for Ethereum.
KryptoKit and Early Ethereum
After Satoshi Circle, Dakh and Di Iorio moved into wallet infrastructure with Rush Wallet and then KryptoKit. This helps explain why Dakh appeared in Ethereum's earliest public materials: he was part of the Toronto cluster of wallet builders, meetup organizers, and Bitcoin Decentral collaborators around Di Iorio and Vitalik.
Original BitcoinTalk Announcement
Steve was mentioned in the original BitcoinTalk post in January 2014, although his role there was later written out of history, along with many others:
"Steve Dakh - Developer (KryptoKit)"
KryptoKit was a Bitcoin wallet browser extension co-founded by Anthony Di Iorio. Steve's inclusion in the original announcement reflects the close ties between Ethereum's founding team and the KryptoKit/Bitcoin Decentral community in Toronto, where much of the early organizational work for Ethereum took place.
Miami House
Dakh also appears in the well-known Miami house photo from January 2014, placing him physically inside Ethereum's earliest pre-launch circle.
Primary Sources
Back-links
Other pages that reference this:
- Taylor Gerring Photos (Articles, January 25, 2014)
- The Great Deletion (Articles, August 19, 2014)
- Early Days of Ethereum - Episode 4 - Taylor Gerring (Videos, August 08, 2025)
- Museum of Ethereum walkthrough (Videos, March 13, 2026)
- Early Days of Ethereum - Episode 16 - Anthony Di Iorio (Videos, May 16, 2026)
- Anthony Di Iorio (People)
- Taylor Gerring (People)