[2013-12-17] Bitcoin in TV series ALMOST HUMAN

[dishwara]

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Bitcoin mentioned in a TV series, Almost Human.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3336036/ [Domain=www.imdb.com]

Almost human, Season 1, Episode 6 @ 30:40.
A girl forced to pay using bitcoins so that her illegally stolen artificial heart will function another 30 days, until next payment of 4,999$.

To those want to watch show, BIT torrent is an easy way.



SPOILER ALERT:

00:30:27,696 --> 00:30:30,197
It's another Vastrel Alpha.

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My mother used to hide money in her sock.

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Bit coin.

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Totally untraceable.

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How much has she got on there?

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4,999.

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She <i>was</i> going
to make her payment.

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They didn't care.

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We were right.

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They're shutting down.

[flix]

The clip:
http://youtu.be/k8LqlMzEe-I

[exstasie]

Nice!  That's pretty cool.  Good to know that the writers think that BTC will still be around in the future haha.

[Pente]

4,999 btc, enough value to run a heart for a month, their value must really drop in the future, maybe the standard is WorldCoin now, the new totally tracable cryptocurrency.

[bitcool]

4,999 btc, enough value to run a heart for a month, their value must really drop in the future, maybe the standard is WorldCoin now, the new totally tracable cryptocurrency.

That amount should be able to buy a small nation in the future.

[lorix]

It was probably 4999 Satoshis - is is set in 2048! 

[djalexr]

It was probably 4999 Satoshis - is is set in 2048!

+1 

[mindfulmojo]

Bitcoin was mentioned in yet another episode of Almost Human that aired tonight on FOX in the US.  A man had a bomb strapped to his neck and was forced to rob the bank where he either worked or was a customer.  The teller transfered bitcoin to a device, which was later recovered by police and said to hold over $400,000 worth of bitcoin.

What I found interesting about that is apparently the banks are using bitcoin. I'm not sure if that makes me or

At least it wasn't fractional reserve bitcoin...lol

[bitfreak!]

It was probably 4999 Satoshis - is is set in 2048! 

I think they actually meant dollars. In the latest episode they find another "bitcoin stick" and they talk about the value of the bitcoins in terms of dollars. It's possible they included another scene about bitcoin in the latest episode in order to clear that up.

[kjlimo]

I really need to start watching this show, haha

[Lethn]

lol I saw that episode finally, they talked about the darknet as well, it'd be awesome if anonymous came along and helped the main characters

[LiteCoinGuy]

here is another! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHOFR5yXKYk

[TheButterZone]

I facepalmed at the ham-fisted bitcoin and darknet references in the last episode.

Calling a device "bit coin", denominating it in dollars, and since when is TOR fast enough to handle live streaming? It took way too long just to load simple HTML, in my experience. Is everyone running a TOR exit node on terabyte ethernet in the future?

It's like they're just slapping buzzwords onto shit.