04 May Bitcoin snuck into the Billions season 5 premiere. Here’s how
Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s first and most successful cryptocurrency was just featured on the popular Showtime TV show Billions in its season five premiere.
Billions is a popular TV series about billionaire hedge fund kingpin Bobby Axelrod, or ‘Axe’ and his duel with the hard-hearted US Attorney Chuck Rhoades.
Bitcoin back in Billions
Bitcoin’s recent mention comes in the first episode of season five of the show, which airs each Sunday at 9 pm ET on Showtime.
Like most mentions of Bitcoin in mainstream media, the recent episode discussed Bitcoin in a negative tone—with attorney Rhoades remarking on the fact that it isn’t backed by any physical assets.
“[…] So your multitude of computers can solve abstract math equations resulting in the mining of Bitcoin, worth millions right now but backed by what? Nada, nix…zat,” said Rhoades during an interrogation.
The suspect fires back, “What’s the Dollar…