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    Bitcoin promises filmmakers and writers tales of get-rich fever and cyber intrigue

    by Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times Feb 13, 2018 5 minutes

    Nearly 10 years after bitcoin was invented, a cryptocurrency craze is sweeping the planet with the ferocity of a Trump tweet, inspiring songs, creating millionaires, unnerving banks and giving writers and filmmakers potent narratives of Gold Rush fever and dark web intrigue.

    Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have stitched new jargon into our vocabularies and offered an egalitarian rethinking of the financial order. They have spurred an infectious fervor to buy in big, which, as any screenwriter knows, presents endless scenarios for ruin and redemption. Recent surges and tumbles in value along with our deepening fascination with the virtual world have given cryptocurrencies a cultural moment at a time when headlines are taunting, "Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You're Not."

    "Bitcoin is the amorphous thing that everybody knows a little bit about but nobody is really sure what it

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