Futurama’s newest reboot takes purpose at Bitcoin miners

The animated science fiction collection Futurama, which was created lengthy earlier than (BTC) was even a gleam in Satoshi Nakamoto’s eye, poked enjoyable at cryptocurrency miners within the third episode of its most up-to-date iteration.

Within the episode “How the West Was 1010001,” which was launched on Hulu on Aug. 6, the primary characters discover themselves in debt to the Robotic Mafia and are pressured to journey west to “Crypto Nation” — a parody on mining the supplies wanted to create Bitcoin within the literal Wild West. In keeping with Futurama, not solely is the worth of BTC nonetheless risky within the yr 3023, however folks journey seeking “low-cost, filthy electrical energy” to proceed to mine blocks.

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