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Cryptocurrency — e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum and more — has been on a lot of peoples’ minds these past few years, as more folk look for ways to get rich in a society where the divide between the haves and the have-nots grows increasingly wide. Cryptocurrency hasn’t proved a good solution to that, though. Basically, it’s digital money untethered to any regulatory authority, which might sound good until you realize that regulatory authorities keep normal currency from swinging wildly one way or the other in value, which is what’s been happening to cryptocurrency over the past few months.
Basically, the value of cryptocurrency is in free-fall, and a lot of people who invested in this stuff are getting hot under the collar. But there’s no bad situation that the internet can’t better with some well-timed memes.
As it happens, crypto folk have turned to Game of Thrones to describe this current crash, which many have dubbed the “crypto winter.” And you know what the Starks say about winter…
Take a look at some of the GoT gags making the rounds below:
Crypto-Winter is Coming. https://t.co/BfMmJqFXP7
— John Reed Stark (@JohnReedStark) June 21, 2022
Who knew Game of Thrones was talking about crypto when they said winter is coming?
— Thomas Goldkamp (@ThomasGoldkamp) June 14, 2022
The Crypto Winter Has Begun, Say Insiders
Since the beginning of the year, #crypto industry insiders have been chanting “crypto winter is coming” like Game of Thrones characters.
Take a deeper dive here: https://t.co/XM8A0OfVE8
— 🥷 Gokhshtein Media (@gokhshteinmedia) June 15, 2022
Here’s one that throws dragons in into the mix:
BTC folk watch Game of Thrones and get false hopes that the bastard child can win in the end.
Crypto winter is coming and the dragons are hungry. #Dracarys pic.twitter.com/E2WHLw8Djx
— Roy Murphy 🇺🇦 (@murphsicles) July 22, 2021
This crypto enthusiast thinks that, like actual winter, the crypto winter will eventually end:
Just a Thought:
This Crypto winter is going to be like the Game of Thrones winter (which is around 3 years). More importantly, tribes will fall, factions will restructure, and there will be a lot of bloodshed. pic.twitter.com/nqUBIorkhl
— Fan Yang (@CoinPowR) November 28, 2018
But this one’s not so sure:
Think of "crypto winter" in terms of a Game of Thrones capital-W Winter. https://t.co/jEs6I9U1Yt
— Paul Barker (@pbarker_dev) June 24, 2022
And there’s lots more where that came from; you can check out a sampling on Wiki of Thrones.
It’s hard to know whether the crypto market will ever have a change in fortune. As for Game of Thrones, there’s a Targaryen-themed prequel series called House of the Dragon coming in August. I look forward to seeing how the internet memes “fire and blood.”
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