Sony has a new show coming out on September 6 called StartUp, and it's about cryptocurrency (sort of). A young woman in Miami has created her own new currency that her software completely controls, called GenCoin.
Her digital money is closed source. It doesn't seem to run on a distributed ledger. She calls bitcoin a "cute idea" in the first episode. This thing is going to be eviscerated by the bitcoin/ethereum/steem crowd.
*Have a taste of the awfulness to come...
