TECH NEWS – The World of Warcraft explanation is somewhat incredible, but it still put a smile on our faces.

Ethereum is a blockchain that is behind both Ether (a cryptocurrency) and the NFTs. Its creator is Vitalik Buterin, a programmer. His inspiration was realizing “what horrors centralized services can bring.” The catalyst comes from a game, namely World of Warcraft, and it nerfed the warlock in 2010. Yes: this move led to Ethereum and NFTs! Wow! Or… WoW?!

“I happily played World of Warcraft during 2007-2010, but one day Blizzard removed the damage component from my beloved warlock’s Siphon Life spell. I cried myself to sleep, and on that day, I realized what horrors centralized services could bring. I soon decided to quit,” Buterin wrote in his bio.

Then, Buterin got into Bitcoin and “started writing for a blog called Bitcoin Weekly initially at a meek wage of $1.5 per hour, and soon with Mihai Alise co-founded Bitcoin Magazine.” The crypto started taking over his life, which is why he dropped out of university. He came up with Ethereum’s idea in 2013, which means he’s responsible for NFTs, too. NFT, or non-fungible token for short is a digital certificate of authenticity (having the original image of something), which has its downside, being wildly energy-inefficient.

So think about it: a company (which is barely as positively rated as back in 2010) modifies one of its characters in its MMO, and its aftereffects show up a decade later in a more substantial format. Suppose Blizzard didn’t nerf the warlock spell a decade ago. In that case, Buterin might have never started working with crypto, and maybe even Elon Musk, one of the prominent supporters of cryptocurrencies, would not be as rich as he is.

Sometimes, you need just a more minor action or event to be the catalyst of something big.

Source: PCGamer