{"id":40643,"date":"2021-04-13T11:47:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40643"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:05:47","slug":"in-the-simpsons-bitcoin-price-soars-to-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/in-the-simpsons-bitcoin-price-soars-to-infinity\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Simpsons, Bitcoin price soars to infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creators of the cult animated series The Simpsons, in a new episode aired on April 11, predicted the price of the leading cryptocurrency to infinity. Reddit users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/mp6sv9\/bitcoin_priced_at_infinity_on_simpsons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drew attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the eighteenth episode of the thirty-second season, a scrolling ticker of financial assets appears on screen. The price of Bitcoin is marked with a green infinity symbol.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_131520\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131520\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131520\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5vrb2v4e7os61.jpeg\" alt=\"In The Simpsons, Bitcoin price soars to infinity\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5vrb2v4e7os61.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5vrb2v4e7os61-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5vrb2v4e7os61-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-131520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Reddit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The following are GameStop (GME) stock quotes. They rise by 1 trillion and immediately shed 2 trillion, a nod to the financial scandal the company was involved in in January 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XF54xih5Dh\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/robinhood-at-the-centre-of-the-gamestop-dogecoin-and-reddit-trader-scandal\">Robinhood found itself at the epicentre of the scandal surrounding GameStop shares, Dogecoin and Reddit traders<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"Robinhood found itself at the epicentre of the scandal surrounding GameStop shares, Dogecoin and Reddit traders \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/news\/robinhood-privlekla-vnimanie-kongressa-ssha-posle-zapreta-na-torgovlyu-aktsiyami-gamestop\/embed#?secret=WlHYZPGzzN#?secret=XF54xih5Dh\" data-secret=\"XF54xih5Dh\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the episode Burger Kings, Marge\u2019s stock-price speculation drives the plot as she attempts to buy Homer a new pair of trousers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in February 2020, the creators of The Simpsons released an episode titled Frinkcoin, devoted to cryptocurrencies and the principles of blockchain technology.<\/p>\n<p>They also mentioned Bitcoin in a crossover episode with Family Guy and in the mobile game The Simpsons: Tapped Out.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog on the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creators of The Simpsons, in a new episode, predicted the price of the leading cryptocurrency to infinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[480,1331,1718],"class_list":["post-40643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-culture-and-art","tag-fun"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"151","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40645,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40643\/revisions\/40645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}