‘Super Size Me’ Director Explores Life on Bitcoin in New CNN Special

‘This whole thing is so bananas.”
So says American documentary maker Morgan Spurlock in an early scene from an upcoming episode of CNN’s Inside Man that focuses on bitcoin. During the show, Spurlock buys bitcoin at the New York City Bitcoin Center, helps set up new machines at a bitcoin mine and visits now-defunct Silk Road 2.0 black marketplace to purchase a fake Rolex.
The episode debuts on 19th February at 21:00 ET/PT, and like his controversial, Oscar-nominated 2004 documentary Super Size Me, the show centers on the concept of Spurlock surviving on one particular thing – in this case, he lives on bitcoin instead of the dollar.
Over the course of the episode, Spurlock helps mine bitcoin with New York-based CoinMiner, earning a day’s wage by assembling new ASIC racks. During a search for coffee shops that accept bitcoin, Spurlock convinces one store to download a wallet and accept bitcoin.

This post was published at Coin Desk on February 18, 2015.