Question: Did Bitcoin appear in "The Good Wife" before any other TV show?
About the article "The Good Wife", section "Technology and the Internet".

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Wikileaks and other organizations began to accept bitcoins for donations.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation began, and then temporarily suspended, bitcoin acceptance, citing concerns about a lack of legal precedent about new currency systems, saying that they "generally don't endorse any type of product or service."
The EFF's decision was changed in 17 May 2013.
On 23 December 2011, Douglas Feigelson of BitBills filed a patent application for “Creating And Using Digital Currency” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an action which was contested based on prior art in June 2013.
In January 2012, Bitcoin was featured as the main subject within a fictionalized trial on the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife" in the third season episode "Bitcoin for Dummies".
The host of CNBC's "Mad Money", Jim Cramer, played himself in a courtroom scene where he testifies that he doesn't consider Bitcoin a true currency, saying "There's no central bank to regulate it; it's digital and functions completely peer to peer".
In October 2012, BitPay reported having over 1,000 merchants accepting Bitcoin under its payment processing service.
In February 2013 the Bitcoin-based payment processor Coinbase reported selling US$1 million worth of Bitcoins in a single month at over $22 per Bitcoin.
The Internet Archive announced that it was ready to accept donations as bitcoins and that it intends to give employees the option to receive portions of their salaries in Bitcoin currency.
In March the Bitcoin transaction log or "block chain" temporarily forked into two independent logs with differing rules on how transactions could be accepted.
The Mt.
Gox exchange briefly halted Bitcoin deposits and the exchange rate briefly dipped by 23% to $37 as the event occurred before recovering to previous level of approximately $48 in the following hours.
In the US, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) established regulatory guidelines for "decentralized virtual currencies" such as Bitcoin, classifying American "Bitcoin miners" who sell their generated bitcoins as Money Service Businesses (or MSBs), that may be subject to registration and other legal obligations.
In April, payment processors "BitInstant" and "Mt.
Gox" experienced processing delays due to insufficient capacity resulting in the bitcoin exchange rate dropping from $266 to $76 before returning to $160 within six hours.
Bitcoin gained greater recognition when services such as OkCupid and Foodler began accepting it for payment.
On 15 May 2013, the US authorities seized accounts associated with Mt.
Gox after discovering that it had not registered as a money transmitter with FinCEN in the US.
On 23 June 2013, it was reported that the US Drug Enforcement Administration listed 11.02 bitcoins as a seized asset in a United States Department of Justice seizure notice pursuant to 21 U.S.C.
§ 881.
It is the first time a government agency has claimed to have seized bitcoin.
In July 2013 a project began in Kenya linking Bitcoin with M-Pesa, a popular mobile payments system, in an experiment designed to spur innovative payments in Africa.
During the same month the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department in Thailand stated that Bitcoin lacks any legal framework and would therefore be illegal, which effectively banned trading on Bitcoin exchanges in the country.
According to Vitalik Buterin, a writer for Bitcoin Magazine, "Bitcoin's fate in Thailand may give the electronic currency more credibility in some circles", but he was concerned it didn't bode well for Bitcoin in China.
On 6 August 2013, Federal Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas of the Fifth Circuit ruled that bitcoins are "a currency or a form of money" (specifically securities as defined by Federal Securities Laws), and as such were subject to the court's jurisdiction, and Germany's Finance Ministry subsumed Bitcoins under the term "unit of account"—a financial instrument—though not as e-money or a functional currency, a classification nonetheless having legal and tax implications.
In October 2013, the FBI seized roughly 26,000 BTC from website Silk Road during the arrest of alleged owner William Ulbricht.
Two companies, Robocoin and Bitcoiniacs launched the world's first Bitcoin ATM on 29 October 2013 in Vancouver, BC, Canada, allowing clients to sell or purchase Bitcoin currency at a downtown coffee shop.
In November 2013, the University of Nicosia announced that it would be accepting Bitcoin as payment for tuition fees, with the university's chief financial officer calling it the "gold of tomorrow".
In December Overstock.com announced plans to accept Bitcoin in the second half of 2014.
In January 2014, Zynga announced it was testing Bitcoin for purchasing in-game assets in seven of its games.
That same month, The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino properties in downtown Las Vegas announced they would also begin accepting Bitcoin, according to an article by "USA Today".
The article also stated the currency would be accepted in five locations, including the front desk and certain restaurants. 
"The Good Wife" has been well received among technology enthusiasts, being described by Clive Thompson of Wired as "the most tech-savvy show on TV".
The show has explored the relationship between technology and the law, covering topics including Bitcoin, Anonymous, viral marketing in political campaigns, voice control software, virtual conferencing robots, and NSA surveillance.
For example, one of the firm's recurring clients is a fictional internet search company known as Chumhum, which among other issues has faced privacy lawsuits for selling users' personal data to the Chinese and Syrian government.
"The Good Wife" was the first TV show to feature Bitcoin, the virtual internet currency, with an episode featuring Bitcoin first broadcast in January 2012.
This led to it achieving a high level of fame amongst the Bitcoin community.
In the season 5 premiere, a Double Robotics robot was featured on the show which allowed a litigator to teleconference from home by controlling a tablet on wheels.
However, rather than glorifying the robot's features, "The Good Wife" turned it into a punchline with practical jokes and problems the robot could have such as it not being able to maneuver around an office and bumping into walls, doors and people and low Wi-Fi connectivity leading to buffering and loss of visual and voice communication of the person working at home.
In Episode 9 "Whack-a-Mole" "The Good Wife" featured a version of Reddit called "Scabbit" and how it affects the law and the downsides of having an "average joe" being an investigator trying to find a domestic terrorist.
It also deals with injunctions of taking down a defamatory web page on "Scabbit" but having another similar web page pop up soon after.
In Episode 11 "Goliath and David" the story is based around a TV Show 'Drama Camp' who stole an Indie band's cover of a rap song and deals with the legality of copyright infringement.
It was inspired by Jonathan Coulton who created a cover of 'Baby Got Back' and Glee, the TV series, which used an identical cover on the show.
The character 'Robyn Burdine' who's a private investigator for Florrick/Agos discovers that the show Drama Camp had to release the song on iTunes in Sweden before releasing it in the USA and that the engineers directly ripped the Indie band's track constituting actual theft.
Bitcoin enables payments of very small sums (for example less than $1) with negligible cost.
Bitcoin is operated without a centralized authority, and enables both large payments and micropayments.
One downside of Bitcoin is the unstable exchange rate of Bitcoin vs. traditional currencies.
In addition, several other similar cryptocurrencies exist. 
Bitcoin was first mentioned in a 2008 paper published under the name Satoshi Nakamoto.
In early 2009, the first open source client (or wallet software), called Bitcoin-Qt, was released and the first bitcoins were issued.
In 2009, a feature in the Bitcoin-Qt software was exploited and large numbers of bitcoins were created.
This was due, in large part, because Bitcoin-Qt was the only software that facilitated bitcoin transactions and mining.
This feature was later removed because specialized mining software turned out to be more efficient.
Since then , the bitcoin open-source software has been maintained and enhanced by a group of core developers and other contributors.
By May 2011, interest in Bitcoin was growing as were concerns.
The price of bitcoins has fluctuated wildly since its inception, going through various cycles of appreciation and depreciation, which have been referred to by some as bubbles and busts.
In 2011, the value of one bitcoin rapidly rose from about US$0.30 to US$32 before returning to US$2.
In the latter half of 2012 and during the 2012-2013 Cypriot Financial Crisis, the bitcoin price began to rise, reaching a peak of US$266 on 10 April 2013, before crashing to around US$50.
In March 2013, a technical glitch caused a fork in the block chain, with one half of the network adding blocks to one version of the chain and the other half adding to another.
For six hours two Bitcoin networks operated at the same time, each with its own version of the transaction history.
The core developers called for a temporary halt to transactions, sparking a sharp sell-off.
Normality was restored only when the majority of the network downgraded to version 0.7 of the Bitcoin software from the flawed version 0.8.
Mainstream services began accepting bitcoins as a form of payment as well as certain non-profit or advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The first law enforcement events occurred in May 2013: Assets belonging to the Mt.
Gox exchange were seized by Department of Homeland Security and the Silk Road drug market website was shut down by the FBI.
In October 2013, Chinese internet giant Baidu had allowed clients of website security services to pay with bitcoins.
During November 2013, the China-based bitcoin exchange BTC China overtook the Japan-based Mt.
Gox and the Europe-based Bitstamp to become the largest bitcoin trading exchange by trade volume.
On 19 November 2013, the value of a bitcoin on the Mt.
Gox exchange soared to a peak of US$900 after a United States Senate committee hearing was told that virtual currencies were a legitimate financial service.
On the same day, one bitcoin traded for over RMB¥6780 (US$1100) in China.
On 5 December 2013, the People's Bank of China prohibited Chinese financial institutions from using bitcoins.
After the announcement, the value of bitcoins dropped and Baidu no longer accepted bitcoins for certain services.
Buying real-world goods with any virtual currency had been illegal in China since at least 2009.
The first bitcoin ATM was installed in October 2013 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
With roughly 12 million existing bitcoins as of November 2013, the new price increased the market cap for Bitcoin to at least US$7.2 billion.
By 23 November 2013, the total market capitalization of Bitcoin exceeded US$10 billion for the first time.
Since US bitcoin exchanges are regulated as money services businesses, they are obligated to report activity suspicious of money laundering (see Legal status and regulation).
Two men were arrested in January 2014 on charges of money-laundering using bitcoins: Charlie Shrem, the head of defunct bitcoin exchange BitInstant and vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, and Robert Faiella.
Shrem allegedly allowed Faiella to purchase large quantities of bitcoins and to use them to buy illegal drugs on black-market websites.
In early February 2014, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges, Mt.
Gox, suspended withdrawals, citing technical issues related to "transaction malleability".
While the company worked on a fix, one week later the price of a bitcoin had come down from over US$800 on 1 February to US$400.
On 24 February 2014, Mt.
Gox's website was taken offline and all trading stopped, amid reports that 744,408 bitcoins (worth $350 million at the time the loss was discovered) had been stolen over several years because of flaws in its payment software.
A class action lawsuit has been filed based on the questionable activity.
In a more recent report (dating March 11, 2014) it was stated that the numbers in-fact were 850,000 Bitcoin, worth nearly $500 million at the time. 
In 2009 and 2010, Taaki made his living as a professional poker player.
His experience with online gambling attracted him to the Bitcoin project.
He founded a UK Bitcoin exchange called "Britcoin", which was succeeded in 2011 by a new British exchange called Intersango, in which he is a principal.
In April 2011, Taaki and Donald Norman established the Bitcoin Consultancy, a group focused on bitcoin project development.
Taaki created the first full reimplementation of the Bitcoin protocol named libbitcoin, worked on the Bitcoin client Electrum and created other command line utilities around Bitcoin and the network.
The Bitcoin standardisation procedure (Bitcoin.
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was started by Taaki.
In 2014, together with Cody Wilson, he launched the DarkWallet project after a crowdfunding run on IndieGoGo which raised over $50,000.
[http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitcoin-dark-wallet]