{"id":561463,"date":"2020-05-18T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=561463"},"modified":"2020-05-27T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:54:12","slug":"j-k-rowling-moves-on-from-bitcoin-jokes-about-owning-ethereum-eth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/j-k-rowling-moves-on-from-bitcoin-jokes-about-owning-ethereum-eth\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K Rowling Moves on From Bitcoin, Jokes About Owning Ethereum (ETH)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Crypto Twitter is still attempting to explain Bitcoin to J.K Rowling.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The critically acclaimed author says she will not join the Bitcoin community and jokes about owning Ethereum.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The whole incident might just prove that J.K Rowlings understands crypto more than she is willing to admit or crypto twitter failed at explaining BTC to her.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new week has started off with Crypto Twitter once again attempting to explain Bitcoin to J.K Rowling in the hopes she will join the community by buying her first few Satoshis of BTC. In a tweet earlier today, the critically acclaimed author made it clear that she would not be joining the Bitcoin community.<\/p>\n<h2>J.K Rowlings Moves on from BTC and Jokes About Owning Ethereum<\/h2>\n<p>Additionally, she joked that she was actually trolling Bitcoin to boost her significant holdings of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/a-golden-cross-on-the-daily-chart-could-push-ethereum-eth-above-228\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethereum (ETH)<\/a>.\u00a0 Ms. Rowlings was responding to a tweet by the team at BeInCrypto who asked her about her thoughts on joining the Bitcoin community to which she responded as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is getting silly. I\u2019m not joining the Bitcoin community. It should be perfectly obvious by now that I\u2019ve been trolling Bitcoin in the hope of boosting my significant Ethereum holdings. *<\/p>\n<p>* This is also a joke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tweets by Ms. Rowling can be found below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">* This is also a joke.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1262333224178593792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Has Crypto Twitter Failed? Or Does She Really Get Cryptocurrencies<\/h2>\n<p>Further dissecting the tweets by Ms. Rowlings, there is some evidence that she understands cryptocurrencies to the point of making a joke about pumping her Ethereum bags. The fact that she admits she has been trolling Bitcoin, is a clear indication that she is aware of the dedication of the BTC and crypto community when it comes to onboarding new investors. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1262300609371353093\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In one of her tweets on the subject<\/a>, she explained that she is now fully educated on the subject.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>my mentions are still full of people trying to get me to buy Bitcoin or to explain it to me. It\u2019s very kind of you, but I swear, I now feel fully educated on the subject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From another perspective, this whole incident might just prove that crypto adoption has a long way to go if<a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/crypto-twitter-tries-fails-at-explaining-bitcoin-btc-to-j-k-rowling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Crypto twitter was unable to convince her<\/a> into joining the Bitcoin community. If this is the case, what many of us consider as clear black and white explanations, might just as well sound like &#8216;blah blah blah&#8217; as Ms. Rowling herself admitted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blah-blah-J.K-Rowling.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-561467\" src=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blah-blah-J.K-Rowling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blah-blah-J.K-Rowling.jpg 565w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blah-blah-J.K-Rowling-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blah-blah-J.K-Rowling-240x102.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Feature image courtesy of Pixabay.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief: Crypto Twitter is still attempting to explain Bitcoin to J.K Rowling. The critically acclaimed author says she will not join the Bitcoin community and jokes about owning Ethereum. The whole incident might just prove that J.K Rowlings understands crypto more than she is willing to admit or crypto twitter failed at explaining BTC to her.\u00a0 The new week has started off with Crypto Twitter once again attempting to explain Bitcoin to J.K Rowling in the hopes she will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":561466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[800,823],"tags":[1233,83,108030,108029],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}