A 255 BILLION dollar blockchain exists today because a video game company removed a spell and made a teenager cry. Back in 2010, a 16-year-old Vitalik Buterin logged into World of Warcraft and discovered his favorite Warlock skill had been quietly patched out by the developers. Years later, he wrote about it. His exact words: I cried myself to sleep, and that day I realized the horrors that centralized services can bring. He quit the game. Never went back. A year later, his dad told him about Bitcoin. He couldn't afford to buy it, couldn't mine it either. So he started writing about crypto for a blog. Payment was 5 BTC per article. Back then, that was 3.50 dollars. Today, each of those 5 BTC is worth roughly 385,000 dollars. At 17, he co-founded Bitcoin Magazine. At 18, he applied to Ripple. They accepted him but couldn't sponsor his visa. At 19, he proposed major upgrades to Bitcoin. The community said no. So he wrote his own whitepaper. Called it Ethereum. Thirty developers reached out within weeks. He dropped out of college, took a 100k Thiel Fellowship, sold ETH at 0.31 dollars in the ICO, and raised 18 MILLION dollars. One person spent 310k to buy 1 million ETH in that sale. At ETH's peak, that bag was worth 4.8 BILLION dollars. Another investor put in just 263 dollars and got 850 ETH. Today, that's worth over 1.7 MILLION dollars. Ethereum launched when Vitalik was 21. Today, it's valued at roughly 255 billion dollars. A game dev removed a spell from a character class. A teenager cried. And then he built the second-largest blockchain in history.