Tyler Bird (7hunderbird)
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2:16 · 5.9M views · Nov 15, 2013
A Monty Python sketch about the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.
Cited as a joke whenever something is stacked or oddly named.
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>"The historic approval paves the way for the first regulated exchange-traded product in the U.S. to give investors direct exposure to the price of Bitcoin without requiring them to buy it or worry about self-custody. Investors will buy shares in ETFs holding Bitcoin as its underlying asset ." Interesting! Looks like we've paved the way for yet another abstracted financial instrument -- which sits on top of yet another abstracted financial instrument ... My only question, at this point in time, were I to have one, would be something like the following: What's the maximum levels of financial abstraction -- that can be stacked on top of one another? ? ??? Related: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] this video
The name reminds me of the Monty Python sketch - The Royal Society of Putting Things on Top of Other Things! this video
I think these folks must share a building with The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things. this video
> putting things inside of things Were you thinking of this Monty Python skit when you wrote that? this video