The animated science fiction series Futurama, which was created long before Bitcoin (BTC) was even a gleam in Satoshi Nakamoto’s eye, poked fun at cryptocurrency miners in the third episode of its most recent iteration.
In the episode “How the West Was 1010001,” which was released on Hulu on Aug. 6, the main characters find themselves in debt to the Robot Mafia and are forced to journey west to “Crypto Country” — a parody on mining the materials needed to create Bitcoin in the literal Wild West. According to Futurama, not only is the price of BTC still volatile in the year 3023, but people travel in search of “cheap, filthy electricity” to continue to mine blocks.