"Banking manipulated, we believe more in overnight Ponzi schemes" Southern Four Bandits: The future is Bitcoin

"This is the future - we all think centralized banks are manipulated, so we believe more in overnight Ponzi schemes." said the hotel clerk who accepts Bitcoin payments in "The Southern Four Jerks".

The animated television series "South Park" premiered in 1997 and has aired 24 seasons to date. In the "Post COVID" episode of the 24th season, which aired on Thursday, it suggests that Bitcoin will soon be considered a mainstream payment method.

In this episode, Stan Marsh uses Bitcoin to pay for a stay at the budget motel "Super 12 Motel Plus" approximately 40 years in the future. The motel only accepts Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for payment. Stan uses a card with the BTC symbol and a QR code.

"South Park" has been critical of the response of the U.S. government and banks following the 2008 financial crisis. Stan Marsh loses money immediately after depositing it in the bank.

In addition to predicting Bitcoin as the future, other future concepts such as self-driving cars, fully digital assistants, and woke comedy actors are portrayed as his own hallucinations in the show.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain are now gradually gaining attention from mainstream media. The first TV show to feature Bitcoin was "The Good Wife" in January 2012. This year, James Spader's character in "The Blacklist" claims to know the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, while "The Simpsons" show Bitcoin prices rising to infinity in an animated stock ticker.

Previously, a Morgan Stanley executive likened the character of Ani in "South Park" to Bitcoin, possessing an antifragile quality that can "die and come back."

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