

The only take away I had, was when a guy said that it's better to be in for just 1% of your total wealth and lose out, than not be in at all. Much of it has already been covered many times. These include Warren Buffett, who famously doesn't have a clue about tech, and Nouriel Roubini, who - besides being an expert on macro economic trends, accurately describing the Great Recession earlier this century when most didn't know it was developing - does have a clue about tech but is famously pessimistic. It provides 'balance' by quoting distinguished but archaic and establishment figureheads. As much as I love progress, I find it extremely difficult to accept their visions as being anything but wishful proposals they want others to bank. This doc has a lot of fluff from promoters asserting bold, ephemeral ideas and plans as though they are true and the 'next step' in shopping, social media, distribution networks, and money. I still see little in crypto, except a way for people to somehow profit from promoting themselves and their hustles. Can we trust them to build a trustless new cyber utopia or are their projects as unfairly distributed, and easily manipulated as our current systems? Some of the hackers, hipsters and hustlers that Torsten interviewed 5 years ago are now creating a new decentralised web, while others have broken their promises.

Robert Kahn, Wences Casares, Samson Mow, Roger Ver, and many more. Jemma Green, Charlie Lee, Vitalik Buterin, Preethi Kasireddy, Dr. This Screen Australia supported and crowdfunded feature documentary introduces the 'big brains and big egos' of this new industry including Andreas Antonopoulos, Laura Shin, Dr. Join filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann (Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It) on his journey to better understand this decentralised technology and the promise of web3.0. Moreover, much of the media coverage is often misinformed or misleading and the general public is still confused about the technology and its larger implications. Despite this potential, Bitcoin is undergoing severe price volatility and the community is facing a bitter internal 'civil war'. Some say that its "blockchain" could provide a blueprint for a better and fairer Internet - challenging the dominating technology giants.

Bitcoin has been called one of the most disruptive technologies of our times, threatening banks by building an alternative and decentralized currency system.
