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Quote from: jwcastle on May 19, 2015, 05:18:38 PM

Well, CSI is a crime show after all. It wouldn't be too interesting if they just showed someone buying a pair of shoes with Bitcoins.
That's the way the media is. Any time there's something new that the world doesn't know about yet, they want to give it a bad spin. It's sensational news reporting and sensational entertainment. A journalism professor once told me: Good news is no news. Bad news is great news.

I think that's true.

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Quote from: jwcastle on May 19, 2015, 05:18:38 PM

Well, CSI is a crime show after all. It wouldn't be too interesting if they just showed someone buying a pair of shoes with Bitcoins.

A plot could be "massive credit card breach, millions of identities stolen, signed up for porn free trials". Someone showed buying a pair of shoes with BTC at the beginning of the episode, split-screen, the breach ocurring simultaneously in full cinematic "hacker style". Then later on in the episode, either one of the investigators says "well that BTC customer wasn't affected!" OR they put a CCTV still on the news of the BTC customer as a material witness, because they showed up on CCTV but there was no ID to be leaked, then publicly have to exonerate them at the end after the real perp is caught.

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Well, CSI is a crime show after all. It wouldn't be too interesting if they just showed someone buying a pair of shoes with Bitcoins.
That's the way the media is. Any time there's something new that the world doesn't know about yet, they want to give it a bad spin. It's sensational news reporting and sensational entertainment. A journalism professor once told me: Good news is no news. Bad news is great news.

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Quote from: RitzBitzz on May 19, 2015, 01:53:35 PM

I have never watched this before or heard of it but I will now!

Don't bother it is pure crap, they just took the same old incorrect information and made a little tidbit for their show to see techy and edge cutting when it was none of those.

Indeed, it was a huge disappointment, and I don't understand why it got a second season.

They failed to explain and understand simple concepts like 'dark web' and 'deep web', they just throw technical terms to make the show look techie, it doesn't make any sense the way the characters use technology.

I'm a big fan of technology shows, Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, Person of Interest, are all shows that use technology really well in their plots, even Almost Human used bitcoin a lot of times in the plot and was quite entertaining got canceled...

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I have never watched this before or heard of it but I will now!

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Quote from: Lauda on May 19, 2015, 01:41:47 AM

Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on May 18, 2015, 10:03:46 AM

yeah but in THIS clip they talk and explain bitcoin for 3 minutes - pretty cool Cheesy

Indeed, but they information isn't that correct. They should have at least gotten better information in regards to Bitcoin.

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I like how the site had no mention of a wallet but operated on private keys, I hope more true information about bitcoin gets out and not just this.

This just proves my point. They should have worked a bit to provide better information in those 3 minutes, but I guess it's better than nothing?

They at least tried to explain how bitcoin worked they just did it terribly, you would think that the writers would watch one video on youtube about it.

Misinformation in a large scale is definitely harmful to the development of bitcoin and the potential adoption rate from the masses. There are different info in there that are just plain wrong, like this one:

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"It's the preferred currency of the deep web. It's used to fund drug deals, hitmen, and human trafficking."

Well people are blindly accusing bitcoin as the more evil money compared to its fiat counterpart when in fact, fiat is traded heavily in regards with illegal crimes and transactions.

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Just watched the episode, it's crappy like all the others, this show is terrible, they failed to capture the way cyber crime happens, it's just another action cop show, technology is irrelevant to the plot, it can easily be substituted by some other thing.

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Quote from: Kprawn on May 19, 2015, 02:10:56 AM

What would be great, is if they could zoom in on a counter, where a "Bitcoin Accepted here" sticker is displayed. Grin

There's an initiative: get set dressers into BTC, so they stick a BTC logo next to the Visa/Mastercard/Amex ones at every single checkout stand/business door set in the post-genesis block era. Make it ubiquitous.

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It would be an eye opener to people who doesn't know BTC yet. Sometime soon, people will be interested in it and voila! BTC price gets spiky again.

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Not a lot of the things they use in movies and series are based on facts.... They use fiction to sell content, and the more elaborate it is, the more interesting it is for the viewer.

This is why Bitcoin is usually used for it's more controversial use... it's simply more exiting.

Would we enjoy, say "Jurrasic Park" if they used croc's and lions, instead of fictional dino's? Sure it would be more real, but it would be boring.

What would be great, is if they could zoom in on a counter, where a "Bitcoin Accepted here" sticker is displayed. Grin

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Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on May 18, 2015, 10:03:46 AM

yeah but in THIS clip they talk and explain bitcoin for 3 minutes - pretty cool Cheesy

Indeed, but they information isn't that correct. They should have at least gotten better information in regards to Bitcoin.

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I like how the site had no mention of a wallet but operated on private keys, I hope more true information about bitcoin gets out and not just this.

This just proves my point. They should have worked a bit to provide better information in those 3 minutes, but I guess it's better than nothing?

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That is true. I dodn't even know multisig wallets existed. (Until now!) Tongue

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Quote from: Lauda on May 17, 2015, 02:08:35 PM

Well this wouldn't be the first time that some show mentioned Bitcoin, although I only remember it being in some cartoon. I believe it was the Simpsons.
Could you provide more details?

Update:
Never mind someone posted the video while I refreshed.

yeah but in THIS clip they talk and explain bitcoin for 3 minutes - pretty cool Cheesy

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Quote from: Kprawn on May 18, 2015, 12:47:35 AM

I also saw a recent episode of one of the Pawn Shop reality shows, where a guy came in to sell his "Money maker" - A home built rig, with a combo of about 5 GPU cards, and he claims it mines Bitcoins.

I could not help to laugh, he asked $4000 for it, and told the guy, he wanted to sell it, because he wanted to upgrade to something bigger.

They brought in a expert, and he knew even less about Bitcoin.

The general notion about Bitcoin is... "It's something, where a lot of people lost BIG money"

This was not a good reflection on what Bitcoin should be and where it's going... Most of these movies and series only concentrate on the negative side. Angry

You can't blame people, since the MT GOX incident.
Bitcoin most of the time is used as a joke, there a tons of references out there, but the most important that is being accept more and more everywhere.

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Bitcoin will undoubtably recur often in this series since the theme supposedly revolves around the elusive "dark net" Shocked

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I think the “two passkeys” stuff is actually meant to be a multisig address. It's just that they didn't do their research.

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Bitcoin is just the victim here not the offender, because you can't blame something to but you should blame the people who uses it

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Quote from: Kprawn on May 18, 2015, 12:47:35 AM

I also saw a recent episode of one of the Pawn Shop reality shows, where a guy came in to sell his "Money maker" - A home built rig, with a combo of about 5 GPU cards, and he claims it mines Bitcoins.

I could not help to laugh, he asked $4000 for it, and told the guy, he wanted to sell it, because he wanted to upgrade to something bigger.

They brought in a expert, and he knew even less about Bitcoin.

The general notion about Bitcoin is... "It's something, where a lot of people lost BIG money"

This was not a good reflection on what Bitcoin should be and where it's going... Most of these movies and series only concentrate on the negative side. Angry

That's because they understand it that way.
Since most of them don't go to the trouble of proper research, they rely on what information they get from the news.

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Quote from: Kprawn on May 18, 2015, 12:47:35 AM

I also saw a recent episode of one of the Pawn Shop reality shows, where a guy came in to sell his "Money maker" - A home built rig, with a combo of about 5 GPU cards, and he claims it mines Bitcoins.

I could not help to laugh, he asked $4000 for it, and told the guy, he wanted to sell it, because he wanted to upgrade to something bigger.

They brought in a expert, and he knew even less about Bitcoin.

The general notion about Bitcoin is... "It's something, where a lot of people lost BIG money"

This was not a good reflection on what Bitcoin should be and where it's going... Most of these movies and series only concentrate on the negative side. Angry

Well that's a problem with them, i.e. the people. It is not the problem of the Bitcoin community that most people are very ignorant and have limited views.
Sure we can try explaining Bitcoin, but the individuals rarely understand it like the people that did on their own. I think that I remember seeing that episodes, it was horrible.
If they had called me in, I'd be better than that "expert" without any preparation at all.

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I also saw a recent episode of one of the Pawn Shop reality shows, where a guy came in to sell his "Money maker" - A home built rig, with a combo of about 5 GPU cards, and he claims it mines Bitcoins.

I could not help to laugh, he asked $4000 for it, and told the guy, he wanted to sell it, because he wanted to upgrade to something bigger.

They brought in a expert, and he knew even less about Bitcoin.

The general notion about Bitcoin is... "It's something, where a lot of people lost BIG money"

This was not a good reflection on what Bitcoin should be and where it's going... Most of these movies and series only concentrate on the negative side. Angry

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