Billy Markus is currently a prolific Twitter user and an influencer known as Shibetoshi Nakamoto with 2.2 million followers. He co-founded the well-known joke cryptocurrency DOGE with Jackson Palmer back in 2013 and has since left the project.
He recently tweeted a screenshot from the brand-new Netflix TV show “Beef.”
DOGE founder likes new series about “crypto gambling”
This is a Korean filmmaker Lee Sung Jin-produced American dark comedy miniseries starring Korean-American performers.
Young Mazino’s character Paul Cho, one of the series’ characters, earns money through gaming and cryptocurrency investment, which are both referred to as “crypto gambling” in the Wikipedia description of the movie.
Billy Markus posted a screenshot of this persona enjoying some noodles while perusing a cryptocurrency chart on his phone. He was referred to by Markus as “a proper degen” (a “degenerate”). It is used to describe someone who starts engaging in high-risk activities with cryptocurrencies, such as trading or investing.
In one of the first episode’s sequences, Cho becomes agitated when he notices that the price of the cryptocurrency he had extensively invested in is falling, and he almost throws up at the sight of it turning a deep shade of red.
Markus, though, responds that he has thus far really enjoyed the episodes when questioned.
Crypto community’s reaction to “Beef” on Reddit
Bitcoin falls 90% within hours from the $20,000 mark in the first episode of the movie, according to a crypto enthusiast on Reddit, who thinks that this is greatly exaggerating the volatility of the currency.
The Redditor acknowledges that this was done for dramatic effect, but he thinks it may harm cryptocurrency’s reputation among TV viewers and “sway a lot of public opinion on cryptocurrency.” He stated:
He thinks the first episode of the “Beef” movie series on Netflix is a crypto-fud.
Some Redditors who read the comments agreed with him, saying that the movie should have included Netflix shares in this scene or inquiring as to whether Gary Gensler, the SEC chairman, produced the movie.
Others countered that depicting events in this manner is common in films, such as “stealing a car by rubbing two wires together.”
