![]() While the basic idea is quite intuitive, the question how blockchains actually work on a technical level is a bit harder to understand. The promise of the blockchain to the crypto community is that it will disrupt entire industries by revolutionising trust in a way that we won't need any third parties like banks or lawyers anymore - we just need the power of cryptography. And to be fair, it does sound intriguing: A decentralised, incorruptible database of monetary transactions, contracts or whatever you like (for example, un-hackable voting machines). Everybody there seemed very excited about the potential of this new technology. I first got introduced to blockchains at a meeting of the BlockchainSociety at Oxford. The idea spread from this point and can be applied to many other areas now. In this paper the author by the name Satoshi Nakamoto (there is still a large debate over who Satoshi really is) introduces a new, revolutionary technology and idea: an decentralised electronic currency that runs on something called the blockchain. The story of Bitcoin started with a whitepaper called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2008. Much more interesting than whether there is a Bitcoin bubble or not is the question how this technology actually works and what it is capable of. ![]() This whole episode felt like just a knee-bender, and frankly, might be the black-eye in a pretty-well done and solid season so far.Everybody is talking about cryptocurrencies now - thanks to the hype about Bitcoin. It was full of all the things that Californication usually avoids. I know I’m being a little sarcastic in this recap, but, just, ugh. Whoa! Big surprise there! Then Hank does the noble thing and says that Ben doesn’t deserve Karen if he gives up on her. Regardless, Hank talks with Ben and they agree that Hank was an asshole and they both like Karen. I don’t know why maybe it’s because I hate the Queens of Dogtown so much, or maybe it’s because I don’t buy this whole Becca-in-an-unbelievably-awesome-band-at-age-17 thing. We ended with Hank meeting up with Ben and Karen at Becca’s band’s gig and, well, this just was dumb. If you did, you wouldn’t deserve her.” -Hank With “The Recused,” I felt like everything coming was predictable. These were things I did not see coming at all, and that’s why they worked. No, the end result was some dude accidentally killing himself as he masturbated. For example, earlier in this season, in “Monkey Business,” Hank found himself again involved in an absurd situation, but the end result wasn’t something that we saw coming from a mile away. Californication is usually a show that gives us great wild and crazy scenes, but what makes them great is that they are unexpected. So, of COURSE Hank provokes the senior partner into tackling him and of COURSE the end result is that Abby will be his lawyer, just without sex. While the three were at the golf course, of COURSE Hank isn’t good at golf and of COURSE the senior partner is really uptight about it. He usually has a motive for his antics or it’s at least entertaining. Now, I may slightly be a hypocrite right now because I love seeing Hank get wild and do ridiculous things, but usually, it’s not just for the sake of doing wild and ridiculous things. So she convinces Hank to come to the office to meet a senior partner of hers who would take over the reigns of the case.Ībby and Hank get invited to play golf with Abby’s senior partner who wants to get a feel of the case (and turns out, Abby) and even though it was pretty hilarious to see Hank golf, I’m pretty sure the whole point of this golf scene was to just show how Hank doesn’t fit in and give him an opportunity to do something stupid. She knows that she can’t be Hank’s lawyer, professionally, if they’re sleeping together on the side. But we quickly learned that this, smartly, is not the type of situation that Abby wants. Mainly because I think Abby is the exact kind of woman Hank needs - smart, sexy, strong, confident. Good for them! I’m a big fan of Abby and Hank as a couple. ![]() We closed last week with Hank and Abby, after episodes of sexual tension, finally hooking up. To me, it was a “knee-bender” episode, spoon feeding us plot twists and character development that we could have easily figured out ourselves. In “The Recused,” to be frank, nothing happened. The story line gets lost with random characters in random scenes that are extremely boring. S4E7: Sometimes, Californication gives us episodes, like “The Recused,” where things get a little messy.
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