World of warcraft is Satoshi Nakamoto.
World of warcraft gold is not decentralised or permissionless. You should learn about pre history of Bitcoin. There were many tries to make something like Bitcoin, but it failed at some point. What Satoshi did was to incorporate best technologies from all previous fails. And it worked.
That's right. For a better understanding of how Bitcoin was created, you can read the infographics of "
Bitcoin Prehistory". In addition to informative infographics, there are many useful links to this topic.