Animated Series Futurama Takes Characters to ‘Doge City,’ Mocks Crypto Miners

The episode, which aired on Hulu on August 7, tells the story of a professor that informs his crew that he had borrowed money from the Robot Mafia, an organized crime syndicate, to invest in bitcoin (BTC), which later crashed and led the crew to go bankrupt. In the episode – set in 3023 – people are still mining bitcoin, which remains volatile even in the future.