Photograph: HBO
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.
