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Good news, everyone: accumulation acceptance is aloof about the corner. Kevin Connolly, bigger accepted as Eric Murphy in HBO’s Entourage, has appear the development of a new TV appearance about the apple of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Titled “Cryptos,” the new affairs is accepted to accessible the agenda balance to a prime-time audience.
Connolly appear the new actualization during a abruptness actualization at the North American Bitcoin Conference, which was hosted in Miami aftermost week. During a consecutive account with Breaker, Connolly – who joins the actualization as an actor-director- said that the new crypto actualization is still in aboriginal development.
Details are still sparse, but a blurb on the Cryptos’ website describes “a comedic drama” afterward a aggregation of adolescent filmmakers who “discover how blockchain technology can be acclimated to advice accounts their blur and TV projects alfresco of the acceptable arrangement system.” The apriorism is compared to added fabulous industry explorations, like Silicon Valley, Entourage and Ballers.
But there’s additionally a faculty in which the new appearance may be at atomic partially autobiographical, at atomic as relates to producers Jason King and Erik Sords. Breaker describes the two producers as “true believers” in blockchain technology: King founded the “Academy School of Blockchain,” a token-funded convention to alternation crypto developers.
Sords created Dionysia, a “decentralized all-around studio” that uses blockchain technology to “[connect] artists and agreeable creators anon to their admirers and financing.”
By amazing coincidence, Dionysia is additionally the name of the fabulous decentralized cine flat in the new show, through which the blue adolescent filmmaker heroes adjudge to “[go] to war aural the Hollywood system.”
In added words: don’t apprehend any bedfellow appearances by Nouriel Roubini.
Producers told Breaker that they achievement to acquisition a home for Cryptos on Amazon or Netflix, and the website predicts that it will be “broadcasted on a above calm network.” But there’s still a continued alley afore the Cryptos can hodl a atom on your TV queue. In the meantime, we note, auditions are open.
This isn’t the aboriginal time blockchain cures accept been assigned for Hollywood’s ailments. Crypto Briefing has ahead appear on Waiting for the Barbarians, a actual ball adjourned through the TaTaTu blockchain platform. We’ve additionally covered Alpha Networks and SingularDTV, which administer decentralized allotment models to entertainment.
“Cryptos” is still in aboriginal development, so it’s too aboriginal to acquaint if the protagonists will appear arrive in their war on Hollywood, or end up in the wastepaper bassinet like so abounding white papers. The Twittersphere is already abuzz, with some pointing out the rather bank across of what Connolly has declared as “More of a abstraction teaser.”
We’re not afraid that bodies are accepting excited, alike if the alone affair to go on is a one-page website and a bivouac abounding of Lambos. That’s a absolute allegory for crypto appropriate there.
An email to the producers of the appearance was not alternate at the time of writing.
The columnist is invested in agenda assets, but none mentioned in this article.
