{"id":73475,"date":"2026-02-22T19:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73475"},"modified":"2026-02-22T19:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:16:32","slug":"vitalik-buterin-decided-to-leave-university-for-good-but-confirmation-that-it-was-a-good-idea-only-came-when-he-experienced-this-social-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73475","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin Decided To &#8216;Leave University For Good,&#8217; But Confirmation That It Was A Good Idea Only Came When He Experienced This &#8216;Social Proof&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ethereum <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) co-founder\u00a0<strong>Vitalik Buterin<\/strong>\u00a0once revealed that his decision to leave college wasn\u2019t a planned move driven by conviction, but a reaction to realities he faced at the time.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Visa Snag To Ethereum<\/h2>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/vitalik.eth.limo\/general\/2024\/01\/31\/end.html\">essay <\/a>titled \u201cThe End of My Childhood\u201d from 2024,\u00a0Buterin reminisced about his early days in the cryptocurrency world and how he was drawn to leadership roles.<\/p>\n<p>Buterin said he intended\u00a0to pursue a paid internship at blockchain company <strong>Ripple<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) in 2013. At the time, he was enrolled in the\u00a0University of Waterloo in Canada.\u00a0However, due to complications with his U.S. visa, he found himself working on<strong> Bitcoin Magazine<\/strong>, a print publication he had co-founded earlier.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of August that year, Buterin chose to extend his vacation by a year to \u201cspend more time &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50771007\/vitalik-buterin-decided-to-leave-university-for-good-but-confirmation-that-it-was-a-good-id?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Vitalik\" buterin decided to university for good but confirmation that it was a idea only came when he experienced this proof>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) co-founder\u00a0Vitalik Buterin\u00a0once revealed that his decision to leave college wasn\u2019t a planned move driven by conviction, but a reaction to realities he faced at the time. From Visa Snag To Ethereum In an essay titled \u201cThe End of My Childhood\u201d from 2024,\u00a0Buterin reminisced about his early days in the cryptocurrency world and [&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-73475","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\/73475","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=73475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}