CNN’s Inside Man Will Do An Episode On Bitcoin
Morgan Spurlock is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, best known for his documentary, Super Size Me. The film explored the health effects of fast food by going on a 30-day diet of exclusively McDonalds. The film captured the entire process, including the severe deterioration of Spurlock’s health. The film did very well in the box office, as it explored the one of the key causes for the epidemic of obesity in the United States. Since then, Spurlock has made other successful documentaries, including “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?”, “POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie....
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"This whole thing is so bananas." So says American documentary maker Morgan Spurlock in an early scene from an upcoming episode of CNN's Inside Man that focuses on bitcoin. During the show, Spurlock buys bitcoin at the New York City Bitcoin Center, helps set up new machines at a bitcoin mine and visits now-defunct Silk Road 2.0 black marketplace to purchase a fake Rolex. The episode debuts on 19th February at 21:00 ET/PT, and like his controversial, Oscar-nominated 2004 documentary Super Size Me, the show centers on the concept of Spurlock surviving on one particular thing - in this case,....
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On Tuesday, Bitcoin finally exceeded the $7.22 high that the price reached in January, briefly touching $7.25 in the (North American) afternoon before temporarily sliding back down to $7.10-$7.20 for the rest of the day. The January high was set in anticipation of an episode of the TV show The Good Wife) airing an episode featuring Bitcoin, bringing the price from a medium-paced recovery after its November low of $1.994 suddenly up to $6.5-$7 for about two weeks. When the episode aired, immediately came a large spike in online attention on Bitcoin as some portion of the show's 12 million....
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