Whether you're a bitcoin enthusiast or simply bit-curious, the movie "Banking on Bitcoin" may well be one of your weekend's activities.
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Bitcoin Movie Sneaks into the Mainstream... Movie Theater
On January 6, 2017, "Banking on Bitcoin" a feature film on bitcoin, its history and future hits the big screen. The film, produced by Gravitas Ventures, gives in-depth insights from the bitcoin's early pioneers.
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In which, the pioneers-cum-casts featured in the film share their revolutionary cryptocurrency technology ideas.
To add, the film also tackles the ideological disagreements between the fringe utopians and mainstream capitalists.
"Banking on Bitcoin’s" Trailer Unfolds
The trailer talks about the time when Wall Street fell, and bitcoin began to surface. It sets you thinking with this teaser,
"For hundreds of years, we've government-issued money... In 2008, I [the narrator] became somewhat obsessed with why was it that our money was controlled by central bank..."
The film touches on how groups of coders, libertarians, counterculture people, VCs, and a mix of everyone else come together to create the largest social economic experiment never seen before. Bitcoin gives freedom for any use- the good and the bad.
Movie goers can expect to re-live notable events such as the Mt. Gox's bankruptcy and the Darknet's Silk Road. As well as topics about how some forward thinker-cum-entrepreneur like Shrem who got jailed for involvement in money laundering.
What the Producer has to Say
David Guy Levy, said that:
“Our production has excelled in more ways than we could ever have anticipated [...] With the material we’ve managed to produce, and the interviews we’ve procured, we hope that the audience will find the final piece as engaging and thought-provoking as we do.”
Since the initial development, bitcoin has managed to gain an increasing amount of traction- from notorious cyber-criminals, the general public, 'hostages' of financial crisis, to regulators looking to allow bitcoin's invention to grow in a 'safe' environment.
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Time and time again, bitcoin proved to be resilient to its many 'deaths' and emerged stronger- in value and in fame.
Despite the many 'death,' bitcoin has now made it to the theater, determine to spread the goodness and future further and fiercer. Ready to let the movie wow you?
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Knowing that no one pleases everyone and there is a flip side to every coin, including Bitcoin. Whether you agree, agree to disagree, or the opposite, do not just take my words for it, be sure to look it up.
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