Game of Thrones jokes reign as cryptocurrency crashes

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…

When Game of Thrones met the crypto crash

Take a look at some of the GoT gags making the rounds below:

Here’s one that throws dragons in into the mix:

This crypto enthusiast thinks that, like actual winter, the crypto winter will eventually end:

But this one’s not so sure:

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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