The Simpsons talked about cryptocurrency and blockchain

The 13th episode of the 31st season of the animated series “The Simpsons” entitled “Frinkcoin” aired on FOX this Sunday. Howfollows from the description, the episode is dedicated to the topic of cryptocurrencies.

Homer and Marge argue over which one is Lisawill choose “The most interesting person I know” for the essay. Lisa chooses Professor Frink instead. While she works on her essay, Frink develops a cryptocurrency and takes away the title of Springfield's richest resident from Mr. Burns, reports Metacritic.

FOX uploaded shortly to their YouTube channela teaser in which Jim Parsons, known for the role of Sheldon Cooper in the CBS comedy series “The Big Bang Theory,” in accessible terms talks about the principles of the operation of the blockchain. The distributed registry appears in the passage in the form of a singing book of transaction accounting.

Parsons' reasoning is reminiscent of educational shows for children in the early 2000s. An animated book, songs, with the help of which it is described how a distributed registry works, went into business.

Gradually, the show turns into a scene in which Parsons wins the jackpot, and the slot machine gives him bitcoin. After that, he finds himself on the Caribbean island.

Further, Parsons continues to talk about the difference between a distributed registry and a blockchain:

«When you use a currency, the transaction is recorded in the ledger. When one ledger (or ledger) is full, we add them to the chain of previous ledgers. This is blockchain».

At one point, Parsons pulls the handle of the device,which is a hybrid of a slot machine and a server, from which coins with an image resembling a bitcoin symbol begin to pour in, but instead of the usual capital “B”, a lowercase is used.

On a separate slide, the authors took out what they did not put in the animated plot, mixing facts with observations of the life of the cryptocurrency community, for example, about the mechanisms of coin distribution:

"They can be generated by fiat, like traditional currencies, or randomly scattered, or they can all be given to LeBron."

FOX viewers will also learn from the new episode of The Simpsons that:

“We have large buildings with energy-efficient, air-conditioned computers that solve useless math problems.

In addition, we know the personality of Satoshi, but we will not reveal it to you. ”

This is not the first reference to cryptocurrencies inThe Simpsons. In 2014, the clown Krusty admitted that he went bankrupt because he was “unlucky in betting and even less fortunate in bitcoin markets.” A year later, one of the Springfield Elementary School bullies Jimbo Jones announced that he accepts bitcoins to pay for mocking peers.

In addition, cryptocurrencies have dedicated a separate quest line in the mobile game “The Simpsons: Tapped Out”.

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