But at the end of the day, it’s just really entertaining television.What springs to mind when you hear the words “crypto rave in Colombia”? Perhaps an image of sweaty programmers swaying out of sync to thumping house music, some boorishly shouting over it to discuss the latest crypto-token they are flogging, their enthusiasm amplified by illicit substances. Reviewers have pointed out that the show simplifies many of these topics and flattens naturally complex characters, and I think that’s true-we walk away with little understanding of John Paul as anything other than a caricature of misogyny, for example. The show weaves past and present story lines-the events leading up to John Paul’s death, and the fallout from the same-and guides us through stunning Irish landscapes, which, along with the show’s dark-but-smart humor, serve a sort of numbing function for the heavy topics embedded in the plot. We quickly learn that Eva, Becka, Bibi, and Ursula were trying to kill John Paul, who is presented as controlling, manipulative, and emotionally abusive (for starters … he eventually gets much worse). It follows the five Garvey sisters-Eva, Becka, Bibi, Ursula, and Grace-and begins by showing the body of John Paul, Grace’s husband, in a coffin.
The 10-episode first season premiered in August, and the show was recently renewed for a second season. Having found myself in a bit of a streaming rut last month, I finally heeded the recommendations to watch Bad Sisters on Apple TV+.
The wall in front of us held a neon sign that read Eat Sleep Crypto Repeat and a large chalkboard with an illustration of an alien ship, complete with the caption We’re going to the moon. Someone at the table next to me, I noticed, had a Sharpie rendering of the Bitcoin logo drawn on their thumbnail. A Brit who recently moved to Mexico tried to get me to open a Bitcoin wallet right then and there (I don’t own crypto), and a Mexican who worked at a crypto start-up asked what I, as a newcomer, thought were the biggest advantages and disadvantages of Bitcoin. That night’s conversation lasted about an hour and a half, during which the attendees collectively rolled their eyes at Sam Bankman-Fried for dirtying crypto’s reputation and used their iPhones to flip between Instagram, Twitter, and Bitcoin wallets. Salinas Pliego has a longstanding relationship with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and an attendee wanted to know whether he might be able to convert the president into a Bitcoiner. Salinas Pliego was a topic of conversation at the first meet-up I attended at Bitcoin Embassy Bar, which featured a lawyer, a consultant, and an economics professor debating whether Bitcoin could-and should-be regulated. In Latin America, she continued, “we have a deeply rooted tradition of making community … in person.” “All revolutions, all social movements, all of these kinds of systemic disruptions wouldn’t have been possible if a small minority hadn’t started to grow, grow, grow through community,” Ortiz told me. And among this community, gathering spaces and meet-ups are foundational.
adults have invested in, traded, or used a cryptocurrency. A recent Pew survey found that 16 percent of U.S. But while it’s important to acknowledge the more pernicious elements of this ecosystem, it’s also not necessarily fair to use the loudest, most problematic voices to generalize about such a large group of people. The crypto community is often hostile to outsiders or critics, and online crypto discourse is known for its toxicity-it’s hard to imagine “crypto bro” culture is a culture worth replicating. Of course, it’s worth remembering that the community that’s formed around said ideology includes many documented cases of misogyny, racism, harassment, extremism, antisemitism, conspiracy, and outright scams. This makes sense, because for its core believers, Bitcoin is “not an investment but an ideology,” Ortiz said. Bitcoin Embassy Bar isn’t the first business of its kind: There’s a coffee shop in Prague, a bar in Manhattan, and a burger joint in L.A.
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