World of Warcraft updates 15-year-old internet addicted teenager who cried in anger, now creating a $500 billion blockchain empire ‍♂️ In the encrypted world, the birth story of Ethereum has long become the most rebellious and legendary geek epic. A blockchain behemoth with a peak market value of over $500 billion today, whose origin was only due to a 15-year-old boy crying and falling asleep one night because of a game update. In 2010, Blizzard mercilessly weakened the key spells of Vitalik's favorite Warlock in a version update of World of Warcraft. Years later, Vitalik himself recalled, "I cried and fell asleep that day, and it was only on that day that I truly realized how terrible and ruthless the consequences of centralized services and a single controller could be. Out of anger, he immediately uninstalled the game. One year later, in 2011, his father introduced him to the newly born Bitcoin. Vitalik, who had just started working with cryptocurrency, was only 17 years old. At that time, he neither had high-end mining machines to mine nor could he afford to buy more Bitcoin. In order to earn Bitcoin, he started writing technical articles for an early cryptocurrency blog, and the compensation at that time was 5 Bitcoin per article, which was only worth about $3.50 in the market price at that time! This insignificant 5 BTC at the time was already worth up to $335000 in today's cryptocurrency market! An article was exchanged for a house. When the Ethereum network was finally successfully born, Vitalik Buterin was only 21 years old, and the peak market value of this chain eventually crossed the majestic $500 billion mark. Now, Ethereum is taking big strides towards a new "lean era" roadmap under Vitalik's leadership.