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I know nothing about this show..  but sounds cool!

http://www.spoilertv.com/2011/11/good-wife-episode-313-finding-mr.html

Seriously?
This is awesome if it's real!

Yeah.. I'm not sure if it's real.  I don't know how that site works, it could be a post by a random fan for all I know.
I'm hoping someone can shed some light.

This guy seems to be real; he's posted tons of other "casting calls"
http://twitter.com/#!/b3rt4
edit: 13 million viewers... airs January 8th, unless I'm mistaken.

Interesting, if it's true it will be like epic

Can't wait to see what Satoshi's lair will look like...also can I suggest that some where in the show it says "No! It's in the blockchain!!"

Thats awesome. Because of the anonymous nature there will definitely be more of these.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442462/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLN6Dp1Gi-8

UP UP UP

The Good Wife is pretty big. My... *cough* erm... sister... watches it. No seriously.

If this is a real episode, that's huge!

I just don't want them to show it during the superbowl. BTW Bruce W. could play the role of Dylan!

This could be the "You've got mail" moment for Bitcoin. Its hard to believe that email was once novel enough to be the plot driver of a romantic comedy.

Don't go to the source site http://www.actorshelper.com/#!casting-calls (http://www.actorshelper.com/#!casting-calls) unless you want to be stuck in a 1999 geocities myspace flash hell.

If you want to know the stereotype of a Satoshi:

[BAO] 26 to 35, a Chinese, male individual, brilliant but painfully shy, easily embarrassed, and quick to develop crushes, he's an econophysicist from Nankai University who may or may not be the true inventor of Bitcoin...GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ASIAN ETHNICITIES

It's pretty clear that Satoshi is not Asian culture-wise. Bitcoin was never offered directly in an Asian language. Whatever. TV has never been canonically correct to reality.

  Aye, but it better fits what the stereotypical American views as the face of someone that his insanely smart with math..


  Never heard of the show either, though to be fair i don't watch much t.v.  I will definetly tune in for an episode about Bitcoin however!  Did they have a plot drawn out for the episode?  And, anyone here thinking about casting for the parts? =)


  Cheers

This surely has the potential to be worse (or better) than the CSI furry episode...

My wife watches this show and so, consequently, I've seen a few episodes. It's not bad, per se, just not my cup of tea. It will probably be as effective at turning people onto bitcoin as a commercial on the Lifetime channel.

I watched most of the first season while on a 14 hour international flight. It's a pretty decent show. Nice!

OH GOD, it's really going to be on a CBS drama series that some people watch?!?!


PEOPLE WILL TAKE US SERIOUSLY!


Boys and girl, our time has come. We will be kings of the new world order.

Do you think we could get Bitcoin mentioned on 30 rock now too I really like that show.

This is HILARIOUS.  Someone please tape it!!

Well if anything, maybe more actors will look into bitcoin in order to get into their roles...

[conspiracy]
They are trying many ways to get him out :o
[/conspiracy]

Holly #@#$
Is this true ?

This show is popular in China,
just like Prison Break.

I see that the Bitcoin community is buying up the price, now it is about 45 % over its low if you look at the couple of months back. My target of 2-3 dollars that I had when Bitcoin was at 6 dollars is now fulfilled.

So what will happen now? Two things I think, first it will get back to lower levels after this buying optimism is gone, it will happen within 1-2 weeks. After that, let see it this show will get some new interest in, the up side is still pretty small, the main reason is the high level of inflation that still is in the system. At today's rates the inflation level in USD is around 20 000 USD/day, a pretty big sum with the Bitcoin community that have around 400 active users (top number for this month) on its biggest forum.

That would be 400+ online *at one time*  - not the total active for the month.

Ok, lets say 800, or even 1000. 1000 active members, that is still not that of a big number if you think about the inflation numbers, it is 7500 USD/person for a year ((7200 x 2,86 x 365) / 1000). I don't think that the average user will put that type of USD in to the Bitcoin Economy per year. As an example this thread have 600 users looking at it for the last two days.

Page views don't indicate how many people have looked at a thread, just how many times it's been loaded.  I've loaded it at least five times today to read the latest responses and I'm sure that others have too.

A lot of message-board software uses the number of members who've logged on in the last 30 days as the figure for "active users".

That means that the 1000 number probably is a bit lower. But even it you calculate with the higher number of 1000, 7500 USD /person is still a hugh number. My guess is that the average investor maybe puts in more like 1000-2000 USD /year.

As a conclusion, the interest have to pick up again, if not it will trade at 2 dollars within 1-3 months. The chance of that is very high as I see it. Sustained prices at 4 dollars is very unlikely as I see it for the nearest months.

I agree in general with your sentiment that there are a lot of new coins available for a relatively small number of people - but I suspect your idea of 'active members' is on the low side.

There were over 1900 new members this month - plus I would guess a fair few thousand existing members who check in at least a few times during the month.

There have been over 200K page views per day for many days this month.
You can't look at the 'average page views per day' figure in the general statistics - as it presumably calculates for the entire period the forum has been running - and many of the older values are zeroed.

Anyway - I don't know what the real figure for how many 'active users' there are of the forum - but I strongly suspect it's more like 10K or more.  
1K sounds way too low based on the available forum stats.

10 000 is to high, maybe 1000 is to low, but as I see it at this high inflation environment Bitcoin needs at least 3000-4000 active users to sustain the price at this levels.

It would be interesting if someone could show that number, total active users the last month.

Looks like at least 5Million page views in November -   take 5M / 1K people - you'd get an average of 5500 page views per person.  Now sure - some people do a lot of clicking around in a forum - but I don't think an average of 5500 per person is anywhere near reasonable.   10K people and 550 page views per person on average?  Well I'm still guessing wildly - but it passes my sniff test a bit better.

(and I guess there would be a number of hits from non forum members of course)

I think at least 3000-4000 active users is *easily* what we have now.



Agreed.. I hope someone has a better estimate.

Your point of view is probably right, 1000 active users are to low, but still, what number is it, is it 2000-3000, or is it double of that.

Well back to the topic..  even if this show does hit millions of eyeballs, I'm not expecting that to translate to sudden Bitcoin interest.

Judging by the casting notes - it looks like Bitcoin will be covered as some sort of shady,risky,illegal thing.
Is there an uptick in cocaine use when a major TV crime show features cops and lawyers chasing users?
I'm guessing not, and similarly - I don't expect this to bring the hordes to bitcoin.

It might get a few people intrigued, or at least make them more likely to read when they later come across the word bitcoin online, so in a way it's still a good bit of publicity (I hope!)

If it airs to 13 million people, and if Bitcoin is mentioned many times in the episode it will bring some interest, the problem is that it can be a short term thing. The positive part is that it is at a time when the Bitcoin Economy is shrinking and desperately needs something like that. It can give it a boost, no question about it, but how long time that will endure is a hard question to answer. As a risk/reward point of view, 3 dollars looks to be a to high price for the moment and it reflects the short term optimism.

If .0001% knew about cocaine a show about it would probably increase use by 10x.

Probably many will think it's a made up for the show thing. Later they'll be like "wait what, that's real what am I missing?"

Yeah.. well honestly I don't know what to expect.  Perhaps cocaine was a bad example - maybe better would be some new designer drug X that nobody has heard of. I don't think it'd make people suddenly hunt for that, except for a few people already into drugs. So maybe this show will just push a few more of the IT savvy people towards bitcoin.
I recently encountered a young bloke studying IT at university who'd never heard of it - so the awareness is still pretty patchy despite all the coverage. What really pushes people towards something is if your peers are using it.

  i did, and don't hurt yourself. ;p


  Season 2 had 23 episodes. Season 3, Episode 12 does not even have a name yet and has not aired for season 3. So it is quite plausible that episodes 13+ just arn't on those lists you are looking at yet....

http://www.tv.com/shows/the-good-wife/season-3/

Ok, I'm ready...

http://i42.tinypic.com/j8egzc.jpg

But I wonder if there's a better way.

CBS is currently casting season 3 episodes of ‘The Good Wife’ which  stars  Julianna Margulies. The an hourlong drama for CBS is about the wife of a politician who returns to her law practice after her husband goes to jail.

Filming of season 3 will be on going until about early April 2012. Casting directors are seeking men and women, any ethnicity, ages 18+ for principal roles and background extras. AFTRA preferred but not required.

If you are interested in working on this show please forward your headshot and resume to: Mark Saks, 270 Lafayette St., Suite 200, NYC 10012.

Background extras should forward color photo snapshot or/headshot and contact info to: Comer Casting, 336 W. 37th St., Suite 315, NYC 10018 or email comercasting@gmail.com.  Please put ‘The Good Wife Background Extras’ in the

http://www.leadcastingcall.com/cbscasting-season-3-episodes-of-the-good-wife/

  While, it is certainly possible the Bitcoin thing was made up, I see no reason to believe CBS only ordered 12 episodes this season. Unless you have a link to info stating such, I have to belive otherwise.
  

 waiting sucks. Hopefully by the time they get the Dec.4 episode out the next few will be announced.

This is the best I could do on short notice:

http://www.businesspundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/betamax1.jpg

Looking at that machine, no wonder VHS beat Betamax.

Yep!

http://www.mediadump.com/post/hottest-gadgets/VHS-player-1985.jpg

I'm looking forward to viewing the Bitcoin episode.

CBS will go from 13,000,000 viewers to 13,000,100!

This is great news for Bitcoin.

and CBS!

Now advertisers will see a new, untapped market of viewers with $0 in real money, but literally millions in spergdollars and will this start advertising services in Bitcoin!

This may actually be Bitcoin's moment, brb finally buying in.

My favorite "I Like You" videos, bar none (you won't be disappointed): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDZy_uyZe4c

New promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwzF7nhq48

Hmm.. looks that sweetener is not being paid in bitcoins - damn.

Maybe I've been watching too much Max Keiser but it struck me that perhaps this The Good Wife episode could be Hollywood's gift to the US government for SOPA.

Me too.

I'm wondering how many times the word "Bitcoin" will be heard at the episode. My guess is: one.

i will be taking a shot of rum evertime the i heard the word bitcoin

i can only hope i don't die b4 the end of the show!

Oh yeah I'm in for the rum ;)
Not that I were a big fan of g+ hangouts but for the lack of bitcoin-fan-denisty somehow I guess it would be fun to watch it with a hangout at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBou4h0t5-A

Seems that Bruce Wagner of the Bitcoin Show got a good get. 2 1 of the actors from the episode and an extra the dude behind www.Praxgirl.com.

This is pretty terrible.

Wow, bruce is dropping the ball.

Actor: What is the advantage of bitcoin over gold in a libertarian society?

Bruce: Well the representation of value....


Right answer: It is easier to store and transfer.

Be careful you two! Last month (06-12 or 07-12) every time the price passed 3 I had a beer. The manipulator beat me.


But, nevertheless, I'm in too, I'll not let my fellows drink alone.

Gentlemen, I also will be taking a shot for each mention of bitcoin. Let's go on line here during the show and post our drunkenness reports.

Was this show supposed to be on tonight? Did anyone see it?

As far as I got it it was Sunday. I actually watched another episode and checked the figures and my conclusion is this is really a well done, fast paced series with, according to wikipedia, 13,000,000 watchers. The interview Bruce did with some of the actors sounded absolutely not like the minds behind the script were up for a plot against bitcoin itself, so I expect it to be really a mayor boost in popularity.

Its sundays 9/8c. So: 8pm, Jan 15th, US central time on CBS.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/photos/80780/season-3-episode-13

*rjk mines and hoards furiously* Let me know when we hit $100, mmkay?

It will be on Sunday night.

http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/the-good-wife-bitcoin-for-dummies/EP011583840061

The Good Wife : Bitcoin for Dummies
NEW

S03, E13 (First Aired: January 15, 2012)

Alicia defends a lawyer (Jason Biggs) who was arrested for not revealing the name of a client who illegally invented a new online currency.
TV-14 (L)

*sick*

After the successful airing, there'll be a spin off show starring William Shatner entitled "Shit my Father Hashes in the Basement".

Yes, really, how can something even be 'illegally invented'?

Whhhhaaaa???!!!!??!?

 :o

One day left.

this... looking forward  ;D

Hope its not posted, new preview for the good wife I have not seen before: http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php/cbs/378-the-good-wife/13837-the-good-wife-bitcoin-for-dummies (http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php/cbs/378-the-good-wife/13837-the-good-wife-bitcoin-for-dummies)

GUEST CAST:

....

Brendan Titley     (Crypto Barker #1)
Jeremy Beiler     (Crypto Barker #2)
John Patrick Doherty    (Crypto Barker #3)

LOL! I guess we all will be surprised.

good one, m8.

and pretty cool to see Jason Biggs in there.


cheers

I actually watch this series regularly.  Personally I'm looking forward to the episode, but I think the hype is ridiculous and I don't think it will have any real impact on Bitcoin growth aside from speculators with high hopes.  Publicity is good, but nobody is going to see this episode and go "ZOMG what is that bitcoin thing, it's real, wow!  Let's dump lots of money into it without having a clue about what it actually is!"

It usually takes a few hours to sufficiently explain bitcoin in enough depth to tech/econ savvy people, and even then most exhibit a healthy skepticism before bothering to look into it any further.  Expecting some kind of massive boost from an inaccurate fictional portrayal in a TV drama is silly.  I think the segment that appeared on Fox News "Freedom Watch" with Napolitano was much more important.  They actually explained what it was to an audience of folks that would have genuine interest in it.

All that said, greed doesn't necessarily follow logic, so I could easily be wrong.  Place your bets.  :) 

It will not make people jump into trading bitcoins - but it will be the first exposure to many and it can also lead to more media in a snowball effect.  But I agree that this will play out in a much longer time frame than most speculator expect it now.

Jim Cramer (Himself)

Great, now we're going to be associated with some type of weird crazy market loon. Just what bitcoin needs...

If this article ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/the-good-wife-graham-phillips_n_1200021.html ) is anything to go by, it looks like regular watchers of the show will be more engrossed by the ongoing soap-opera story arcs and ignore the 'bitcoin' stuff as mere filler.

soooo... how long should i wait before searching for a torrent?

(i'll make a donation to CBS once they start accepting bitcoins)

ah, no leaks? :D

No livestreams?

I'm doing a shot every time they say the word bitcoin.

The.Good.Wife.S03E13.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi

here you go guys download at any one of these hosts:  http://www.multiupload.com/OWLNUYHHTJ (http://www.multiupload.com/OWLNUYHHTJ)

Torrents are up as well, please seed after you've finished downloading, so we can all start watching sooner :)
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6958542/The.Good.Wife.S03E13.HDTV.XviD-LOL.%5BVTV%5D.avi

I'm switching to beer.  jeez they are mentioning Bitcoin left and right!

Umm... *hic* yep  ;D

haha, love how weaselly the judege makes Bernanke out to be. ;p


and hmm, the charge for 'creating a currency' is 10-30? weird stuff.


Guess I will hold anything else in case you have not watched it yet and find some suspense in this tv junk...

cheers

the little commercial on bitcoins she was watching was pretty neat. Does that exists some place or did they whip something up for the episode?

It's funny how people in this forum were hoping this soap opera will make Bitcoin more prominent/valuable, whereas so far only obvious effect is that more people will be watching the TV show.

Out of beer
Out of beers.  :-\

All I have left is Baileys, yuck! Whatever..

That was a joke, yes?

Ms Bitcoin? Can Satoshi be a girl's name?

actually no... ;p  They seemed to have scraped a LOT of the ideas for the episode from 'real' things online. So, it is a real quesiton. ya never know.  I have a neaky feeling they got the self representing client/lawyer thing from michael piscuzzy...

Kudos to the writers. I think they covered the subject matter pretty reasonably.

The parody of the weusecoins video was a riot. Can we get a copy of that?

Is there a way to track the number of searches on Google after the show? Or a way to compare before, during and after the show, the search results for 'Bitcoin'?

wow!  Surprisingly well done.

66, better call an ambulance....

Amazon accepts Bitcoin. How cool is that!

Well it was fun to watch anyway. :)

"I went out and bought a Bitcoin"
Run tell dat!

I was amazing. Better than I imagine it would be.

Not too bad…my favorite line… "real is gonna change"   ;D

+1

I wonder if the value is going to go up now :P

Wow.. the part about bitcoin being 'incorporated' was a bit weird, but it was entertaining and way better than I thought it would be!

Yep!

do we have Robert Taylor to thank for this?  he was impressive the other day.

so far nutting on the Release front... but soonnn ;)
 RALLLY ;)

I'm impressed.  The writers did a great job and the episode was very entertaining.   I loved the parody of the weusecoins video too.

I got calls and txt messages from friends the whole time it was on... I guess I talk about bitcoin too much.  :D

PURE PWNAGE

GREAT JOB CBS!

Someone posted that scene already! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SohEf5dF45g

Mr. bitcoin is hot!

Sam

Yes she is!

"real's gonna change"

Fixed!

+1.

So it wasn't too negative on BTC?   I haven't seen it yet (not in a huge rush), but I wasn't expecting too much.   Do you think it'll help at all, or will people still just assume it's all fiction?

Biggest thing to happen to Bitcoin since the July rally...

Sweet :D

i really enjoyed the show.  i liked how they ended it too.

We have more users than that show has viewers I bet  :D     A really great episode, definitely a file to throw on a usb stick and pass around to people.   Enjoyed the show enough too, not my style, but respect for the nighttime drama show that involves something like Bitcoin, and in such a specific and real way

1/3 of Mr. Bitcoin:

http://gravina.x10.mx/jennifer_ferrin.jpg

It's actually quite popular.  Everyone go here and rate it a 10 - http://www.tv.com/shows/the-good-wife/bitcoin-for-dummies-1741481/

Probably won't help, but it can't hurt right? :D

Really we have 10 million users?

Average US viewership is around 10 million.  There are viewers outside the US.  With only 8 million BTC, do you really think the average user has less than 1?

Damn, just how many times was the name bitcoin heard today during the episode? Its like BITCOIN BITCOIN BITCOIN. I feel bullish

"The Good Wife" Executive Producers:

Ridley Scott (Bladerunner)
Tony Scott (Top Gun)

It'll be interesting to watch the Google Trends over the next few days.

Ridley Scotts best movie was Gladiator IMO.

THIS IS AMAZING.

just in case if you were confused about the ending at first...  it made sense once i looked up Round Robin

I present to you Mr. Bitcoin:

http://gravina.x10.mx/jason-biggs.jpg + http://gravina.x10.mx/jennifer_ferrin.jpg +http://gravina.x10.mx/Rob_Yang.jpg

I loved the episode.

I especially like how they redid the "What is Bitcoin ?" video, it was quite funny to see a "rip-off" for the purposes of dramatization.

Reminds me of the old TV show the Mod squad except the black dude is now Chinese.

Sam

Sexy lol.

Satoshi prob is multiple people you guys... I have always contemplated this, glad that the show went with this theory.

Well, coincidence or otherwise, the price is rising a bit :)   Won't be new people buying BTC this early, more likely existing holders being bullish.   Either way... yay :)

Sa*  To* Shi***
Sam Tom Shiala

Who knows?

Just like my tag line says... ALL PUMP NO DUMP. That was HOT SEX. RELEASE THE BULLS!

Ahhh, the write-up did seem to have a womens touch now that I think about it :D.

Twitter's abuzz with #TheGoodWife and #Bitcoin, albeit most not in the same tweets.

Did you also know it hasn't hit the West Coast yet? The tweeps there are waiting for it.

It starts in ~50 minutes here.. but, already downloaded it and watched it myself. Two more timezones of the masses have yet to see it though.

it took exactly 23 minutes after the show ended for a merchant sign up for Bit-Pay after doing a google search after the show.  Once he is up and running, I will tell you who it is :)

Sweet! I have some bitcoin's to test with! :)

Review of the Good Wife episode for those who want the rundown :)

http://bitcoinmedia.com/good-wife-episode-review/

Amazing post.

Keep us updated.  You should start your own thread for this if more join up in the coming days.

Keep in mind, it could have also been due to your appearance at CES.

This is very good news. One has to wonder if a deluge of other companies will follow. Amazon and newegg would be great.

Excellent

This looks like a boring series that I will probably never watch again, though I liked their Bitcoin coverage. My favorite part was the implication that Bitcoin is something that all young people are familiar with. Like it's an integral part of Internet culture. Not really true yet, but I like the idea.

The real Satoshi story is way more interesting than the story in the show, though.

I wonder what the real Satoshi thinks of this episode. 

He definitely watched it.  ;)

Well, this particular merchant, on his application, specifically said he heard about Bitcoin on the Good Wife and googled it :)

G. Zeus.

i wasn't expecting that to happen... let's hope it's mcdonalds or coke/amatil.

Haha unfortunately I'm sure McDonald's and Coke have heard of Bitcoin long before this episode.  That's why they're business experts.

And we have the smoking gun. Please keep us posted in the short term of merchants who apply due to good wife.

Let's hope they don't trace his IP address from one of the encoded blocks!

I actually like the show, my girlfriend got me hooked on it a couple of seasons ago. There's some good drama, and it is a story from an interesting perspective, that of the wife of a cheating, dirty politician.

yeah, it's probably something more like Shoelaces 'r' Us.

Which is terrible when Velcro is clearly more efficient.

Great show! Amazed at how much they addressed many of the issues -  ie., "digital commodity vs. currency". Although I think most of the Occupy Wall Street are clueless to bitcoin (contrary to what was said in the episode), but many of them will now know about it. And then there was Kramer...shocking that an establishment insider like him called it a "commodity" vs. a "currency" (of course this is only an acting role). Perhaps the banksters don't fear bitcoin and I'm not sure if that's good. ???

I bet Kramer invested in it at $30.

Retracted for stupidity.

:D

Just heard about it and checked out about half of it.  Interesting discussion in the courtroom about how to treat the concept of Bitcoin.  Never been into drama shows though and don't watch much TV but I thought it was pretty interesting.

I thought the episode was excellent.

BUT from my perspective, this show, and every other mass market publicity for bitcoin is a double-edged sword.  On one hand, it will cause thousands of people to Google bitcoin and learn more about it, thus helping the economy grow.  On the other hand, some of those people will find these forums when they Google, and see what a load of pedantic aspergians we have around here, and it will frighten them away.  Speaking of, does Atlas still post?

Aspergians make for good businessmen.

Retracted for stupidity. 

Watched the episode today--twice--and it was fantastic!  Even my 65ish year old parents, which had previously been totally uneducated with bitcoin, were fascinated and learned a lot.  It's a lot more interesting when people on TV are talking about something, I suppose.

That was pretty great!

lol DecodeaCon

satoshi is assange

The crowning moment of writer stupidity was when they actually said an IP address that was incoherent.

Otherwise, not terrible. They seemed to imply that bitcoin is incorporated, closed source and somehow subject to identity verifying code injection. Hopefully they talk about it more with that newly formed love interest. I was stunned at how many times they actually said the word. Looking forward to that montage on youtube soon.

That is usually done on purpose, especially with phone numbers.

And now for the impact this is having on google searches... drumroll...

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=bitcoin&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0

So far, none.

how about this:
https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

:)

They used 127, the 555 of IP addresses.  They didn't need to make it 5 octets long.

I haven't watched the episode yet so I have no idea what they actually used. In that case it is a bit absurd :) Usually it's using numbers larger than 256.

I missed it.  :(  Anywhere to watch it online that doesn't involve breaking the law?

~29:40 on my copy.  "127 zero nine zero one"

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/video/2186658794/the-good-wife-bitcoin-for-dummies

If CBS doesn't hate you/your country.

thank you for the link!

Anyone pm me please with an hint where do DL an HD version ! thx

There are others around page 4 or 5

Share ratio: 5.90 ;D

of course ! habe 50mbits upload :)  but first thing i will forward it to the usenetz!

Spoilers:

-Bitcoin is still an illegal currency,
-It is too much of a hassle,
-It was created by a lawyer who needs a lawyer,
-Super-cryptologists can embed secret messages in the bitcoin "code" using other people's computers remotely, and the IP addresses used are easily traceable for anyone who wants to look,
-In a world where you have a moderate stack of cash to plunk down, you can get a whole law firm's undivided attention and a one-day trial in a well decorated courtroom with a jovial judge and no jury when charged with a crime by the federal government.
-Software coders are fidgety asian dweebs who would proclaim they love a snoopy lawyer they just met.

and
- when you are accused of giving a bribe, you get ineptly questioned by a pretty investigator at whatever location you specify, instead of being woken up at 3am by g-men with guns.

This page is updated every several days. Need to wait for new data.

+1

This one is updated quickly:
http://we.lovebitco.in/images/20120116034548_googletrends_bitcoin.jpg

Wonder what Napoleon Dynamite doing on hot trends.

Vote for Pedro!

New cartoon

Ah thx, dint knew that.

What, are you shorting or something?

Spoilers:
-They explain Bitcoin by having the actors watch a clone of the weusecoins video.
-One of the witnesses later explains "Bitcoin has no central bank to regulate it, it's digital, and functions completely peer-to-peer."
-They mention bitcoin being $3 now, and being $33 earlier "because people were hoarding".
-All the hip young people in the series know about bitcoin.
-Bitcoin is on the protagonist side, painted with hip techy people, in contrast to the antagonistic federal reserve treasurer, an old grumpy man.

-The best quote, at the end of the episode, I won't tell here. Just watch it already.

also, it turns out he's luke's father, and leo dies in the end.

..and (apparently thanks to gmaxwell), the message 'embedded' in the blockchain as shown in the show - is really there!

use something like: 'strings -n 20 blk0001.dat' to see it.

Also this:
"FFS Luke-Jr leave the blockchain alone!"

Well yeah..  the Len Sassaman tribute and the Good Wife addition are awesome.. 
pity about Luke-Jr's superstitious vomit in the middle, but in a way even that is a testament(no pun intended) to the freedom granted by decentralization.

This show had the same problem that most any other movie or TV show has.  It presents a universe where space and time bend to the whims of the story.

Really, the guy hires a lawyer, get 2 working full time, goes to trial, gets arrested, has a bail hearing, goes to trial again, gets acquitted, goes to the bank and spends 20 minutes getting a cashiers check, and returns to the law office all in 72 hour period.  72 hours because the lawyers kid sees his girl friend three times.

Meanwhile the clever lawyer changes from one sexy outfit to another dozens of times, perhaps indicating the passage of time but more correlated with the change of scene.  She meets twice with another sexy investigator to conduct business in a bar, never really consuming a drink or paying for one.

One thing I really liked about Star Trek was it's vision of a future in which women didn't age, had great bodies, perfect makeup and whore skin tight outfits with short skirts.  This lawyer world shares that same vision.

In the original Star Trek women caused most of the problems yet in the end did what they were told, all the while providing an interesting romantic relationship to the main guy.  I could see a little of that in this lawyer world.

Sam

Just checked:


That is cool.

I just saw the show.
I dont remember who it was, who promised to drink one shot of rum (was it?) for every time the word bitcoin was used. Do we have the address of the hospital he is in to send him flowers :D.

As a bitcoin "commercial", I guess it was much better than I had hoped for. At the same time, I dont think it will do much. I dont think Id get the urge to google bitcoin after seeing it. If you had never heard of it, youd probably still think it was purely fictional. The only way for this to have an impact, is when its combined with some actual bitcoin news, so people understand it really exists. Then people may remember the term from the show and look in to it, but if you only heard of it by watching this show, slim chance I think.

Well, a lot of people did. Apparently search word "bit coin" spiked to 6th in the hot trends list. Currently it's not in the top 20 anymore but it was there for a good while.

The following review of the show will contain SPOILERS.

Personally I was REALLY FUCKING IMPRESSED by the show. Well, the episode itself was quite boring and I think a lot of regular viewers didn't like the episode too much, but simply the fact that the word "bitcoin" was said so many times makes it awesome.

And I don't think that there is any doubt that Bitcoin is a real thing. It could've been a bit shady if not for the ending where the *main character of the show stated that she actually bought a bitcoin online* !!!. That and the comment Biggs' character made afterwards. It's highly unlikely that after that viewers thought that it's all just made up.

Of course there were a lot of issues with the technicalities but that's entirely irrelevant. The beginning was awesome where the main character's kid and his girlfriend basically explained the thing to the main character and then the ending was gold as well. Also the actual mystery of "who is Mr. Bitcoin" was solved in an interesting way, it's possible that the show is close to the truth regarding the real life Mr. Bitcoin.

Er, the premise of the show is that creating private currencies is illegal, except that's not true. I wasn't able to see it (not in the US), but that doesn't sound really that great to me.

Just watch the episode, you'll see they did a great job!

 Could someone please identify the block which contains this so those of us who don't have a full copy of the blockchain can verify it online?

Here's the weusecoins inspired section:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetGyk_fkMI

The guy who is trying to stop SolidCoin and kill 'other' coins has his dad involved too?  What a soap opera

Can you ridiculous autistics stop complaining about the ip address being wrong?  That's the kind of shit that causes SA to create a 600 page thread about you.  

If only you could see the irony in what is implied by people making a 600 page thread to complain about someone elses 'obsession'.....


but, I agree. and no one has said much of it after it was pointed out that it was a similar use as the 555 phone numbers....

It's kinda funny, I saw the complaints about that before I saw the show, so I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. But after he says the IP address, which admittedly is something weird like 187.32.4 she just stares at him (rewatching it, she's looking over his shoulder) so I was half expecting her to berate him for a bunk IP.  But she just said "Oh I know that IP!"

Edit:
Oh found it on youtube (clip of IP address part)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QObtw7uAb4I

1270901 so, 127, as in the private class A? os is it 1.27.09.01? 12.70.90.1?

I was under the impression it was 127.0.90.1  ;)


ahh, imagine that. listed as a Japanese addy here; http://iplocation.pythonclub.org/127.0.90.1.html


edit; before you get all autisticy on me. I know the 127 block is reserved for loop-back.....  still weird that entry is there with a recent date of jan. 4th 2012 apparently on that site, all 127.*.*.* are in Japan. =)

Which of course, it the slightly more fundamental problem, the idea people would recognize IPs and be able to match them to individuals.  Then again, this wasnt a show about TCP-IP, so who cares.

Wait what? Oh stupid me, I thought 127.0.0.1 was in a /8, I guess it is not.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/14358031?show_adv=yes

It's in the CoinBase.

Awesome!  I'm guessing all the pools we're racing to get that one in.

I would brag about 79.8 if I were such an unlawful criminal that did file sharing ...

Amateurs. Over 400 ratio on an 11GB file, beat that.

What does she say in the end? "I feel so ... dated"? outdated? sedated? I'm no native speaker. Could somebody please tell me :)

She says dated, as in 'old'.

+1

thanx :)

It seems to have had the desired effect.

From the article:


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/01/the-good-wife-recap-alicia-versus-the-internet.html (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/01/the-good-wife-recap-alicia-versus-the-internet.html)

"I wonder why the writers didn’t bother to come up with a fake name for “Bitcoin,” the way they’ve done with “FaceBranch”and “FactSwim” in the past."

maybe one of the writers has 1000 bitcoins.....

Lol are you kidding me?

Thanks.  It wasn't on there when I looked, but I got sleepy and went to bed instead of continuing to look for a place to watch.  I'll check it out this evening though!


Probably because Facebook and whatever the equivalent of FactSwim is are trademarked, and can't be used without corporate authorization and all that BS.  No one owns a trademark on "Bitcoin", and let's hope it stays that way!

Amen to that.

I did wonder why they bothered to change the logo on the bitcoins for the spoof commercial they had though. Likely just to avoid any 'potential' issues in case there ever were to be any? Which at this point, there are not.

Anyone know which pool got the legendary "stack is innocent" block?

it was signed via Eligius

edit; CoinBase
456c6967697573 4a20 fabe6d6d42bc45eb873fa0ca75350b8278fd082b011a02958f04a40fd2a52f3fd398cbd10800000 000000000 574b775176302f2f2f2f2f537461636b20697320696e6e6f63656e742f2f2f2f2f4b615a4d6c383 2
(decoded) EligiusJ ,�mmB�E�?��u5 �x�+
���ҥ/?Ә��(WKwQv0/////Stack is innocent/////KaZMl82


edit2; If I am reading right the IP to first relay it was Deepbit's.


edit3; It appears to have been 'found' by Deep's IP as well. So Luke signed the transaction but deep found and relayed it? really not sure here.

+1

in the same vein they use the word of the actual "internet" and not something like "interweb" or "worldnet".

Because technically, the person who first posted that image can lay claim to copyright in court if they want, unless they specified an open license type.  But without a license specified on release, and without anyone having applied for a copyright license, it can be argued that the first person to publish the image is the copyright holder.  More than likely, they thought it would be easier to just make their own logo than to find any license/copyright information on the existing one.  But IIRC, the current orange logo was released under an open license for anyone to use however they like.

TV shows make quite a lucrative target for people to sue over, so they definitely take every precaution they can in protecting themselves from using IP they aren't entitled to use.

did we ever figure out who is Robert Taylor who gave that interview to Bruce Wagner last week?  he never actually said he was an actor did he?

I've read his name I think about three times from you, I now believe you are Robert trying to promote yourself  :D   jk, I checked the episode of the Bitcoin Show earlier when you had posted and I did not immediately recognize that guy either, but I will be rewatching The Good Wife tonight.  I didn't hear the whole interview, so I didn't catch his relation to the show or cast or anything, I just figured he might be one of the writers friends and does walk on parts or something.

Apparently the US is hated. It is no longer available.

I just tried it, and it started just fine for me...

Must be the other option... they hate you :P.

Watching in another window right now from that link, try again.    I am not sure if I am surprised or not that a full tv show, not just clips, is put online on their own website after the show airs that quickly, but maybe that is a commonplace now in days?   Smart of CBS to do it on their own site rather than cough up money to Hulu I guess.

One of my co-workers came up to me today and said "Bitcoin went mainstream! I saw it on TV last night."

I was all like "mainstream? Then it's soooooooo over."

Now I need to learn how to use Open Transactions in order to remain hip.

All the major networks do (except Discovery, and I rue them for it).  I often watch shows I am interested in on the web now, instead of on their timetable.  I think the last major network show that I didn't find hosted at their own website was American Idol, and for good reason (no voting allowed after 2 hours after the show ends, IIRC).  Not that I watch American Idol or anything.... *ahem*

Amazingly, even though the download link was ready for The Good Wife right before air, I went ahead and watched it on TV.  So weird, as I'm like you, I've switched to online watching only, with my laptop ready to be docked to my tv and sound system for big viewing of anything on the laptop in the living room.  It was neat to have breaks in between the show, these things called 'commercials' I forgot about lol, it allowed me to check Bitcointalk before hearing the show was back on in the other room. 

I still prefer just having shows running non stop on a laptop next to me and I just work and do things around that then it be the focus, but it was very retro to watch a tv show with commercials again.   I feel a shift in the way media is distributed is going to be forced sooner than later, I have already got two friends to purchase TB external hard drives to watch shows off of.  It isn't hard to convince them of commercial free, when you want, just plug it in your PS3 or 360.   

Lots of times companies are reluctant to "casualy" use even open licensed artwork because verifying the license can be difficult and tracing back the work history can be next to impossible.

For example say I make Bitcoin logo and license it creative commons for for non-commercial use only (or offer no license).  Someone copies my work (unknown to me) makes a small change to it and releases it public domain, or creative commons, etc.  Now the TV company uses that license. They even do some do diligence and "verify" the image & license is valid.  The show hits the air and I go "WTF that is my artwork?".   The show thought they were using a lawfully licensed original creation but my copyright is still valid.  If I convince a judge that the derivative work is similar enough to my own well I might end up with a million dollar pay day.  

Just the chance of that happening and the difficulty in verifying work product makes companies very reluctant to use work which could be unlawful derivitive work.   Unless the artwork is essential to the story companies don't even want to take the chance.  Given 99.999% of the audience hadn't heard of Bitcoin uses an alternate created in-house artwork bypasses the whole legal issue and has no real effect on the story.

i hope someone at CBS releases the original full copy of that parody video, not just as filmed on a laptop screen... you can tell by the episode that not all of what was created was shown, like when the laptop screen is hidden from view but you can still hear the video playing.

I just saw the episode and it is absolutely INCREDIBLE !

I mean, of course it had a lot of usual stupidities and simplifications so average american is not bored (like "Mr. Bitcoin is such an awesome haXX that only he can change the bitcoin code and embed something in the blockchain" - LOL), but overall, the episode was much much better than I thought.

What i mean to say is I expected it to be far more foolish and inaccurate. They actually got about 90% of the important details **right**, except for that creating currency is not illegal in the US. They even included the currency vs commodity dispute which is often brought up on the forums.

I am also impressed by the number of times they actually used the word "Bitcoin" in it. It was like they were really trying to advertise it !

I may consider actually watching "The Good Wife" after this, even though i don't like the "law-drama" genre very much.

And I forgot to mention, also executive producers:

David Zucker - Airplane! and Top Secret! (Thanks ZAZ,  :D :D :D )

Charles McDougall - The Office

I am currently watching this right now.  First episode of this show I've seen.  I got a little angry when the stupid old fuddy-duddy judge got impatient and ruled BTC is a currency.  Me more watch now...

I love it how they also kept using the word 'bit' as well, just in everyday conversation.  Also, when they used the word 'difficulty' a few times there made me feel like they custom tailored the episode just for us! :)

I know, right??  Everything you said!

I also liked the episode. This is the only episode of this series I've watched, and I don't expect to be watching any other. But the "bitcoin aspect" of this one was done better than I expected.

Also, interesting to note how much the writer of this story was inspired by that New Yorker article of Joshua Davis. That was really a good article.

Do the writers or the producers have a bitcoin donation address?

You know, I was thinking about that. Maybe we could whip together a little 'care package' from Bitbrew to their office.  I believe Edd was working on some Bitcoin coffee mugs for a package we are sending out to the folks at Archive.org.  I'd give a coin or 2 for that, if there is interest.

I'd add some too, those people have been great. I'd want it to reach the person/people responsible though, which I guess is one of the writers, but for all I know the janitor could be a bitcoin whiz with enough charisma to convince everyone.

I'll donate something toward this package as well. We just need someone to organize it.

Someone doing this should make sure it's for "displaying Bitcoin in a technically accurate way", and not for "blatant promotion of Bitcoin". The latter might look awkward ::)

I would contribute to a similar gift to Joshua Davis as well. I'm pretty sure it was his article that inspired the producers of Good Wife to make this episode. It was a good piece that he wrote.

I'm more than happy to put together another package for the producers at The Good Wife. Do you think they have a seperate office just for that show?

We'll have to do a little research to find out. Were you able to have some coffee mugs made already?  And if you'd like to start us an addy for The Good Wife, that'd be awesome.

You're like the messiah of coffee. Just say your name and Bitbrew in one sentence. And Poof!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=59908 could be related... ?

~20k hits in just the past day or so? That's insane. highly probable, that it's related?


Good Wife info;  According to Wiki, Robert King and his wife, Michelle King are the creators of the series. Not sure if they would be the writers of each episode though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Wife_(TV_series)
http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/


You know who would likely know how to contact them? The casting agent, whose info is all over the net from the last episode... *hunting*

I've left a comment on their Google+ page. Their facebook page is spammed by hundreds of comments daily, but the Google+ one is very silent. I'm hoping the PR person monitoring that can give me some information on who to contact.

You can also try to send a short DM (not a tweet) via twitter.

Sounds good. I called up CBS and was sent over to the 'publicity' department where I left a message for Steve. There is one other number for 'Audience Services' I am going to try. I found it here; http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/info_faq_personalities.shtml
Strangely The Good Wife is not listed, which leads me to think it may be handled directly through Scott Free Productions(Ridley Scott). Will keep hunting until I can say for sure.

edit; 10AM office time. I want to work in that office. ;p

cheers

I don't have twitter. Maybe someone else could try this? Don't know how many DMs they get on twitter though.

I found some very interesting info here; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/21/robert-and-michelle-king-inside-the-good-wife-writers-room.html

"The Good Wife—this season moving to a new night and time (Sundays at 9 p.m.)—is hard-hitting drama at its best. So it’s all the more surprising that the writers’ room appears almost serene, even as the clock ticks away. This is not your typical writers’ room, a litter-strewn battlefield where exhausted scribes butt heads, argue, and quaff vast quantities of coffee. Here, on a quiet studio lot in Culver City, supervising producer Corinne Brinkerhoff—who runs the @GoodWifeWriters Twitter feed with Meredith Averill—stands at a whiteboard"   8)


From the best I can gather it all appears to be overseen by the King's in an office in CA..  Might want to DM to the twitter feed listed there, @GoodWifeWriters

I will see if I can track down company info on that studio.

edit; nice list of writers names here in the listing for the WGA award they are nominated for this year; http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2901688/awards

I haven't had the mugs made, yet. Been busy and haven't really found a something I'm enthusiastic about putting my name on. I'm going to try a local guy today and see how soon I can get that package to archive.org out.

My co worker just had a very excited conversation with me about the Good Wife and he is thrilled that BTC is a real thing.  If I tried to talk to my co workers about BTC before they thought I was crazy.  Now its real to them.

I believe I've narrowed it down a bit. Atleast, I am fairly certain the office the writers are located at is some place inside Culver Studios, in Culver City CA. It is like 6AM there so later this afternoon I will see if I can get some better details on which office is theirs and hopefully find a public number for them.  Anyone with an IMDB acct may be able to pull the proper contact info.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2148561/fullcredits#writers

FWIW..

After the show, several friends of mine on facebook contacted me about bitcoin, as I post bitcoin related stuff from time to time.
All of them what to know everything about it, how to get it, how to mine it, where to use it, and so forth.

These friends of mine all heard the word "bitcoin" before, but only took action to find more about it AFTER the show..

Like someone posted earlier, Its now "real" to them...

Food for thought.. :)

You know, instead of trying to hunt these guys down, you can just ask Bruce...

Bruce who ?  ::)

What leads you to believe he would have connections to the writers in California? I know he had access to some of the cast members in NY, but was not aware of anything else...

+1 I will throw in a coin.  This episode could have been very bad for Bitcoin.  I am glad they stayed "neutral" and presented it facutally (granted in a fictional setting).

I was going to take a shot of whiskey every time they say Bitcoin. I watched it at a friends house and just before the show I remembered I had my CC weapon on me, so no drinking.  :-\

So fucking true.

Rock on, that makes what, 6~ of us then, so far?

 Just as soon as I can get a concrete delivery address for them I will either start up a pool for us or see if Edd will.  I've got some work here at the office but will try to sit at the phone to call a few more places this afternoon and get back with some info.

cheers,
  Derek

p.s. Did someone say 'abstraction money?'
http://www.colourbox.com/preview/2637373-453632-abstraction-money-circle.jpg

+1 I'll throw in a couple also.  D&T states it eloquently - the more positive/neutral exposure BTC gets, the less digging out from under FUD we have to manage in the future (and it will come commensurate with the rise in popularity/success)

Much agreed, and thanks. =)

Stalker Update; UGGG, I would make one horrible stalker. Culver Studios informed me that the King's office did not have an extension and they were unable to give out any other contact information. :/
 midEdit;  I was able to track down their home address and a phone number. I feel creepy calling them and would be happy to have someone else do it. ;p  I will not post the info here so PM me if you are interested...

cheers,
  Derek

Mr Bitcoin created a block with signature from IP address 127.0.90.1


$ ping 127.0.90.1
PING 127.0.90.1 (127.0.90.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.90.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.096 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.90.1: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.068 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.90.1: icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.073 ms

OMFG - he is online!

... or it is a localhost address ))

hmm any news on this merchant?

I'm sure we'll eventually find an office to send some coffee to, so I'm going to post an address now to take advantage of this momentum: 1DBn9P7cUbJL3RAstEw5sG7skeJgHg1Xg6

I'll send some high end coffee, some decaf, tea, and a mug or two with a tactful card saying thank you and that these products were bought using bitcoins.

2 BTC is yours...please take care of these good folks

saw the show. I dont like tv but liked this one.
bitcoin getting popular and rumors are that its soon going to be an available payment option at amazon.

This will stay as a rumor. It was only a clueless support person, they are not really planning on adding Bitcoin as a payment option.

I sent a coin to support this.

Interestingly, in the Good Wife episode, it was testified in court that Amazon accepts Bitcoin. Amazon Execs should watch it :)

So many of the usual Good Wife fans and reviewers didn't seem all that enthused about the bitcoin subject,
but judging by the 3 articles I linked to sequentially here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1958.msg701747#msg701747
it might be that the show gave bitcoin a fair bit of exposure to various legal professionals.
That's a pretty good outcome in itself I reckon.

Just a thought for cascasius maybe... how about a batch of coins with the phrase Verus Mutator, which in English means: Real has Changed :-)

CBS News: Are you targeting the wrong audience? (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-48540837/are-you-targeting-the-wrong-audience)

For the regular viewers interested in the soap-opera storylines of the show, there wasn't much drama for them.

For the legal enthusiasts and techies, it was great!

Is there anything new on this merchant?  :)

retrettably, no.  I just sent another email to them to follow up and see if they have any questions. 

Can someone please make a meme with the dialog at the end starting with the "I bought a bitcoin" line? TIA
If not, I'll do it tomorrow when I have time.

When you add that last line everyone will just wait for you to make it ;)

I didn't understand what you meant, and I'm horrible at making funny memes, so I made one anyway.

http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2012/1/27/f131ec82-fd91-49dd-9053-a09a3b8b2838.jpg

Here's the source image:

https://i.imgur.com/Nic3z.jpg

rotfl, excellent  ;D

LOL

Made it for you.

http://memegenerator.net/Goodwife

nicee, i really liked what they did

edit: stitched into one pic

I didn't take any pictures, and there were no real dolls involved. I was telling a friend I hadn't seen in a while about my poker site and bitcoin, and another guy overheard us and said "Bitcoin?! That's real?". Lol. He'd seen it on The Good Wife.

This is what I'm talking about. People gunna hear over and over till it's in their minds.

We will see the EP13 on 24 september in Italy.
They changed the title from "Bitcoin for Dummies" to "Girotondo".
Girotondo in italy means the "Ring Around the Rosie" game. It's a totally meaningless title.

thats stupid. you know english and italian? tell us what they change about the episode

LOL

where the hell were you guys when this aired?

It was HUGE then.

Jim Cramer from MadMoney was even on the show "testifying" about Bitcoin

no kidding, considering it was all over the forum.

What's LOLsworthy here?  I created this thread well before it aired and it looks to me like this thread was reasonably necro'd because the ep is only now being televised in Italy with a different title.

I find it peculiar that the Italian TV execs chopped 'Bitcoin' from the title - as the episode seems to be known in English by 2 titles, both containing the word Bitcoin.
'Bitcoin for Dummies' and 'Finding Mr Bitcoin'

looks like cablepair forgot to check the date :)

I'm a frequent thread neco'er