Topic: Bitcoin mentioned on mainstream shows (Read 396 times)

Actually I remember watching an episode of The Blacklist a while back that mentioned Bitcoins.  I forgot what episode it was though....

The whole premise was that "Red" (One of the main characters) is a guy that is a criminal master mind that turns himself into the FBI to get back in touch with what seems to be his daughter (?), Elizabeth Keen, who works in the FBI.

What happened was Red was trying to figure out if someone in the FBI could do him a favor in order to see if he was the mole informant that was giving away information to other people who could use it against him (long story).  Anyways, in order to see if he was "loyal", he threatens this guy who's a computer geek/hacker for the FBI to steal money from this random bank account number and put it into his own account "anonymously"... So he does it as fast as possible (because he has a gun drawn on him) and completes the transaction.  Afterwards he describes how he did it, and one of the parts of explaining was that he took the money from account and put it into bitcoin and then transferred that to another exchange site or something which he then put the funds into his account.

It was a while ago since I saw that episode, so some of the details about the whole transaction stuff is pretty hazy, but that was the general just of it... The Blacklist is a great show regardless, so if you haven't seen it, you should... That episode was in the first season if I remember correctly.

no, I've never seen any show mentioned bitcoin, but that's interesting, the shows will make bitcoin become mainstream anyway. and people will ask what bitcoin is and try to learn it.

I just ever seen a newspaper talked about bitcoin, but in negative perspective. that's bad. and I think it's not a show.

This thread contains around 4 Bitcoin references on mainstream shows:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-mentioned-on-blacklist-1472087

Check it out.

I've seen a few different shows that mention Bitcoins recently so I thought I would start a list!

Krusty they Clown says he's lost money on the Bitcoin market in this Simpsons episode.

Criminal minds beyond borders had a recent episode where they were asking for ransoms to save their dying mother. They amazingly tracked them because they used the same bitcoin address for every single ransom demand. HAHAHA! That was pretty pathetic. Believe me, my wife heard all about how that made absolutely no sense. I'm quite sure she was thrilled to hear all about it while the episode continued in the background.

Criminal minds had an episode a while ago that mentioned the silk road but somehow not Bitcoins. Lol go figure.

Any other shows out there mentioning Bitcoins?