Deadline reports "Netflix has ordered a series about Ilya 'Dutch' Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, who were arrested and face charged for conspiring to launder around $3.6B worth of Bitcoin. Morgan, a hipster rapper otherwise known as Razzlekhan and Forbes contributor, and her husband Lichtenstein were arrested earlier this week in New York after being accused of conspiring to launder nearly 120,000 Bitcoin tied to the 2016 hack of a virtual currency exchange." Chris Smith, director of Netflix’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened who executive produced Tiger King, will direct the docuseries. Nick Bilton, the Vanity Fair writer behind HBO’s The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, will also serve as an executive producer.
TOPICS: Netflix, Untitled Netflix Bitcoin Fraud Documentary, Chris Smith, Nick Bilton, crypto currency, Documentaries, In Development