Ethereum exists because a teenager loved one video-game spell.
When Blizzard stripped the damage from his World of Warcraft warlock’s Siphon Life spell in 2009, Vitalik Buterin cried himself to sleep. “On that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring,” he later wrote. He quit the game and went on to build Ethereum, now the second-biggest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin.
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