New Simpsons Episode Options Jim Parsons Giving a Crypto Explainer for the Lots

The newest episode of The Simpsons has delved into the advanced world of cryptocurrencies, and managed to interrupt the topic down so in all probability anybody can perceive it.

Titled “Frinkcoin,” the present listed on Fox on Feb. 24 options “TV’s most beloved scientist” and “The Large Bang Principle” star Jim Parsons as he seems on-screen to speak about “the actually cool topic of distributed consensus-based cryptocurrency.”

“For cryptocurrencies to work, we want a file of each transaction that happens. These are recorded in what’s referred to as a distributed ledger,” Parsons (who’s undoubtedly “not a nerd”) says.

Enter an animated ledger e-book, that sings, in a sluggish blues type, portion of the tutorial:

“I am a consensus of shared and synchronized digital knowledge
unfold throughout a number of platforms from Shanghai to Grenada.
Every day I am nearer to being money of the longer term.
Not in your pockets, I am in your laptop.”

“Whenever you use the forex, the transaction is recorded within the ledger,” Parsons continues, “and when one ledger e-book will get crammed up, we add to a series of earlier books – that is the blockchain.”

In keeping with a press release, Parsons voiced himself for the episode, which options Professor Frink as the topic of a Lisa Simpson college essay, creating his personal “Frinkcoin” cryptocurrency. In the end, he surpasses Mr. Burns as richest man in Springfield.

The snippet additionally takes a dig on the crypto house with a concluding textual content that raises the environmental value of cryptocurrency manufacturing and ends with an announcement referring to the mysterious inventor of bitcoin: “Additionally, we all know who Satoshi is, however we’re not telling.”