Harry Potter Writer J.Ok. Rowling Needs to Study About Bitcoin
On Friday (Could 15), J.K. Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy collection, requested Coindesk reporter Leigh Cuen to clarify Bitcoin to her.
It began when Cuen took to Twitter to say that the “most bullish sign” she had seen all week was {that a} feminine “mainstream novelist” had requested her about Bitcoin:
Probably the most bullish sign I’ve seen all week is a mainstream novelist (who I will not identify however she’s soooo good & not a scifi kind) pinged me (unsolicited!) to ask about bitcoin. I now think about this week a hit. 😁 pic.twitter.com/UlHzXAtkUt
— Leigh Cuen (@La__Cuen) May 15, 2020
Marvin Ammori, a marketing consultant for HBO present “Silicon Valeey” then replied to Cuen to say that his favourite creator was Rowling.
.@jk_rowling is my favourite!!
— Marvin Ammori (@ammori) May 15, 2020
Cuen then replied to Ammori joking telling him that she would “die” from happiness if she obtained pinged by Rowling:
If she ever pings me I’ll *die* from happiness. 😝😂
— Leigh Cuen (@La__Cuen) May 15, 2020
This promoted Rowling to answer to each Cuen and Ammori to say that she wished to find out about Bitcoin:
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I don’t perceive bitcoin. Please clarify it to me.
— J.Ok. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 15, 2020
Naturally, this tweet by Rowling introduced an enormous quantity of pleasure to the crypto neighborhood (with over 4,400 likes for Rowling’s tweet, as of 20:00 UTC on Could 15), a number of outstanding members of which took the time to answer to Rowling to clarify Bitcoin to her.
One of the crucial detailed explanations was by Vitalik Buterin, who’s the co-creator of Ethereum:
It is a digital forex. There’s ~18m models of it. It isn’t backed by something, it is simply worthwhile as a result of it’s, like collectibles.
There is a community of computer systems (which anybody can be part of) that maintains a decentralized international excel spreadsheet of what number of cash every individual has.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 15, 2020
Folks discover it attention-grabbing as a result of there isn’t any central authority that controls this community, so there is no single group of individuals that may simply go and subject extra models to their mates or manipulate its guidelines for political causes.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 15, 2020
Principally international digital funds, plus the shop of worth properties of gold, all with 21st century cryptographic tech to maintain the entire thing working safely.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 15, 2020
This was Cuen’s personal rationalization:
Hello! My DMs are open if you wish to chat w/out onlookers. The very quick model is: Bitcoin is cash fueled by a neighborhood of contributors. There is not any king or central financial institution in cost. There are numerous tales we will use to discover the ethics of a world w/international forex 🙂
— Leigh Cuen (@La__Cuen) May 15, 2020
