New Simpsons Episode Features Jim Parsons Giving a Crypto Explainer for the Masses

The newest episode of The Simpsons has delved into the complicated world of cryptocurrencies, and managed to interrupt the topic down so most likely anybody can perceive it.

Titled “Frinkcoin,” the present listed on Fox on Feb. 24 options “TV’s most beloved scientist” and “The Big Bang Theory” 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’d like a document of each transaction that happens. These are recorded in what’s known as a distributed ledger,” Parsons (who’s undoubtedly “not a nerd”) says.

Enter an animated ledger ebook, that sings, in a gradual blues type, a good portion of the tutorial:

“I’m a consensus of shared and synchronized digital information
unfold throughout a number of platforms from Shanghai to Grenada.
Each day I’m nearer to being the money of the future.
Not in your pockets, I’m in your laptop.”

“When you employ the forex, the transaction is recorded in the ledger,” Parsons continues, “and when one ledger ebook will get crammed up, we add to a chain of earlier books – that is the blockchain.”

According to a press launch, Parsons voiced himself for the episode, which options Professor Frink as the topic of a Lisa Simpson faculty essay, creating his personal “Frinkcoin” cryptocurrency. Ultimately, he surpasses Mr. Burns as richest man in Springfield.

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