Maisie Williams asked whether she should get into Bitcoin, and who should respond to the call but multi-billionaire Elon Musk?
Here’s something I bet you didn’t think you’d hear today: Maisie Williams, who played the stab-happy Arya Stark on Game of Thrones, asked her Twitter followers about the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, and should respond but…SpaceX CEO and multi-billionaire Elon Musk?
First of all, if you’re not familiar with Bitcoin, then I recommend you do some Googling because the odds of me effectively explaining it are low. Basically, it’s a digital, decentralized form of currency that, depending on who you ask, is either a genius idea that will forever change the way we think about money…or a Ponzi scheme with cult-like evangelists that uses so much computing power (to keep track of transactions) that it threatens the environment.
So opinions vary. For better or worse, Maisie Williams has it on the brain:
should i go long on bitcoin ?
— Maisie Williams (@Maisie_Williams) November 16, 2020
As you can see, most of her followers don’t think Bitcoin is a super-safe investment. In that, they’re in agreement with at least eight Nobel laureates who think it’s a speculative bubble destined to pop. (It does have a reputation for fluctuating wildly in value.) What does Elon Musk, who is worth nearly $100 billion at the time of this writing, have to add to the conversation?
🎶 Toss a bitcoin to ur Witcher 🎶
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2020
So…buy? Sell?
Should I be impressed that Elon Musk has the time to learn that bop of a song from The Witcher and joke about Bitcoin on Twitter on top of sending privately built rocketships into space? The jury’s out on that one.
This isn’t the first time he’s talked with celebrities about Bitcoin, though. Earlier this year, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling asked people on Twitter to explain Bitcoin to her, and Musk chimed in:
Pretty much, although massive currency issuance by govt central banks is making Bitcoin Internet 👻 money look solid by comparison
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 15, 2020
Musk’s real view on Bitcoin is kind of hard to pin down. In a podcast early this year, he said that he was “neither here nor there on Bitcoin,” focusing on its reputation for being used as currency in illegal transactions…which he doesn’t entirely thing is a bad thing. It’s nuanced.
“Toss a bitcoin to ur witcher”…maybe he means that Henry Cavill should get into Bitcoin.
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h/t CoinTelegraph