{"id":37792,"date":"2025-07-19T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37792"},"modified":"2025-07-19T17:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:46:37","slug":"ethereum-was-born-when-vitalik-buterin-cried-himself-to-sleep-over-this-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37792","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Was Born When Vitalik Buterin &#8216;Cried&#8217; Himself To Sleep Over This Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The price of cryptocurrency <strong>Ethereum <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46479649\/xrp-smashes-all-time-high-as-bitcoin-reclaims-119000-and-dogecoin-ethereum-continue-climb\">soared over 21%<\/a> in the last week and is now up over 40% in the past month. With a market capitalization of $430 billion, Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>What if I told you Ethereum almost didn&#8217;t exist? In fact, if not for a small change in a video game, we might not have Ethereum today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Many are familiar with the butterfly effect thanks to a movie by the same name. The butterfly effect is an idea that small events can have non-linear impacts on a complex level. A small change made in a popular video game led to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/gaming\/a-world-of-warcraft-nerf-lead-to-the-creation-of-cryptocurrency-ethereum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">creation\u00a0<\/a>of one of the most valuable and most popular cryptocurrencies of all time.<\/p>\n<p>A small change to a character in World of Warcraft, the popular game from\u00a0<strong>Activision Blizzard<\/strong>\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/ATVI#NASDAQ\">ATVI<\/a>), had a big impact &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/07\/46508837\/ethereum-was-born-when-vitalik-buterin-cried-himself-to-sleep-over-this-video-game\" alt=\"Ethereum\" was born when vitalik buterin himself to sleep over this video game>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of cryptocurrency Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) soared over 21% in the last week and is now up over 40% in the past month. With a market capitalization of $430 billion, Ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency. What if I told you Ethereum almost didn&#8217;t exist? In fact, if not for a small change in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-37792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}