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Are you a fan of HBO’s hit comedy show Silicon Valley? Do you mine bitcoin? Did you find Gilfoyle’s use of death metal to alert himself to bitcoin rises and drops hilarious?
Well, you’re in luck.
Viska Offers Real Death Metal Bitcoin Alert
That’s right—now you can get your own obnoxious bitcoin alert just like Gilfoyle’s. Icelandic website design agency Viska has just created a web version of Gilfoyle’s loud and jarring alert.
According to Viska representative Sindri Guðmundsson, he and others from the Viska team watch Silicon Valleyevery week during each season’s airing. Guðmundsson said the team decided to make the Gilfoyle-inspired alert system “just for fun.”
Gilfoyle’s bitcoin alert sound bite is a 1.36 second clip from the song “You Suffer” by Napalm Death.
How Did Viska Make the Alert?
Guðmundsson described that the Viska team wrote a simple Javascript plugin that follows the price of bitcoin from Coincap.io. Then they built their site off of WordPress—in three hours, no less.
Now, any user who wants Gilfoyle’s alert system can connect it to their home mining rig, so they can toggle off and on remotely.
Guðmundsson also said in an email to The Verge—a tech news site—“We actually follow the bitcoin price quite a lot and playing beautiful music each time it passes a certain amount makes the day better.”
While Guðmundsson may believe “You Suffer” is beautiful music, it’s an equal guess that he was joking since they created the bitcoin alert for a laugh. The joke in Silicon Valleywas most certainly because the alert was loud and sudden, startling everyone in the office each time it went off (which was a lot).
So, if you want to annoy your office-mates or just make yourself laugh as you follow the rise and fall of bitcoin, you can now be just like Gilfoyle thanks to Viska.
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