Article 6S0JY Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery review – this frustrating documentary feels like a digital Agatha Christie tale

Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery review – this frustrating documentary feels like a digital Agatha Christie tale

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Lucy Mangan
from Technology | The Guardian on (#6S0JY)

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's impressively rigorous - but feels like a waste of time

By the end of Money Electric's 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.

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 computer shenanigans" and they do help - but only to the extent that I now feel the sense of the blockchain and its strings and keys and coins and what not.

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