Vitalik Buterin says he created ethereum after his beloved World of Warcraft character was hobbled by the developers, awakening him to the ‘horrors centralized services can bring’ | Currency News | Financial and Business News

• Vitalik Buterin created ethereum after developers weakened his “beloved” World of Warcraft character.
• “On that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring,” Buterin wrote on his bio page.
• He eventually launched ethereum at just 21 years old in 2015.
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Vitalik Buterin created ethereum, the technology behind the cryptocurrency ether,…