TIL Vitalik Buterin created Ethereum as a result of Blizzard changing a spell on the game World of Warcraft. Vitalik himself said: "I cried myself to sleep, and on that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring"

I wish I could use the comedy flair but this is very much real.

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Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, has said that he was inspired to create the decentralized platform after his beloved World of Warcraft character was weakened by the game’s developers. According to his about.me page, he played World of Warcraft from 2007 to 2010 but decided to quit after game maker Blizzard nerfed his "beloved warlock’s Siphon Life spell" on Patch 3.1.0. He wrote on his bio page "I cried myself to sleep, and on that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring".

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Vitalik on how to cope with a character nerf

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This experience led him to become interested in decentralized systems and eventually led to the creation of Ethereum. Funny how this could easily become a movie. A butterfly flaps it's wings in Mars and Vitalik cures cancer.