{"id":16463,"date":"2024-11-05T23:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T22:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/05\/money-electric-the-bitcoin-mystery-review-this-frustrating-documentary-feels-like-a-digital-agatha-christie-tale\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T23:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T22:37:39","slug":"money-electric-the-bitcoin-mystery-review-this-frustrating-documentary-feels-like-a-digital-agatha-christie-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/05\/money-electric-the-bitcoin-mystery-review-this-frustrating-documentary-feels-like-a-digital-agatha-christie-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery review \u2013 this frustrating documentary feels like a digital Agatha Christie tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many deep questions to tackle about the crypto-currency, yet this programme launches into a wild goose chase after its founder. It\u2019s impressively rigorous \u2013 but feels like a waste of time<\/p>\n<p>By the end of Money Electric\u2019s 100 minutes I understand fractionally more about bitcoin and the blockchain. This is no mean feat. I only downloaded my first app in 2021 and this is no word of a lie. You will, however, have to take my word about my increased knowledge of the digital currency because it is still nowhere near enough to put into words.<\/p>\n<p>Money Electric has plentiful graphics that try to make the abstract tangible enough for the non-cryptographically minded among us to grasp what I still want to call \u201ccomputer shenanigans\u201d and they do help \u2013 but only to the extent that I now <em>feel<\/em> the sense of the blockchain and its strings and keys and coins and what not.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2024\/nov\/05\/money-electric-the-bitcoin-mystery-review-this-frustrating-documentary-feels-like-a-digital-agatha-christie-tale\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/633fc0eda1474428848af7d9233872ef5b31b5d4\/122_0_3596_2160\/master\/3596.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d2fbec5f7ea442ac2cdaa3aaa1861f85\" title=\"Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery review \u2013 this frustrating documentary feels like a digital Agatha Christie tale\" \/>There are so many deep questions to tackle about the crypto-currency, yet this programme launches into a wild goose chase after its founder. It\u2019s impressively rigorous \u2013 but feels like a waste of time<br \/>\nBy the end of Money Electric\u2019s 100 minutes I understand fractionally more about bitcoin and the blockchain. This is no mean feat. I only downloaded my first app in 2021 and this is no word of a lie. You will, however, have to take my word about my increased knowledge of the digital currency because it is still nowhere near enough to put into words.<br \/>\nMoney Electric has plentiful graphics that try to make the abstract tangible enough for the non-cryptographically minded among us to grasp what I still want to call \u201ccomputer shenanigans\u201d and they do help \u2013 but only to the extent that I now feel the sense of the blockchain and its strings and keys and coins and what not. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many deep questions to tackle about the crypto-currency, yet this programme launches into a wild goose chase after its founder. It\u2019s impressively rigorous \u2013 but feels like a waste of time By the end of Money Electric\u2019s 100 minutes I understand fractionally more about bitcoin and the blockchain. This is no mean &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/05\/money-electric-the-bitcoin-mystery-review-this-frustrating-documentary-feels-like-a-digital-agatha-christie-tale\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery review \u2013 this frustrating documentary feels like a digital Agatha Christie tale<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}