The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin [ENG] [2014] - Full movie

kosaxd (44)in #bitcoin • 7 years ago (edited)

A computer programmer becomes fascinated with the digital currency Bitcoin, and through his involvement in the Bitcoin community, we learn about the impending global impact of this amazing new technology.

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin is a movie that does a great job of explaining exactly what its title suggests - why Bitcoin is where it is today. It proposes that Bitcoin’s journey has just begun, and that the fundamental building blocks of Bitcoin will be far more disruptive in their component form for a long time to come.

Charlie Shrem’s BitInstant is one of the Bitcoin startups featured in the documentary

At its core though, the documentary is framed as a human story. We see the incredible growth of Charlie Shrem’s BitInstant, one of the very first US-based Bitcoin trading businesses, as they take on new staff, office space and see volumes triple in a day. Then we see new US regulations which suddenly put Charlie’s business in a grey-area legally and find him arrested returning from overseas on technical breaches of Anti Money Laundering rules. The last image we have of Charlie is him wearing a government-issued ankle monitor enforcing a house arrest order (Shrem has since had those restrictions lifted.)

The Rise & Rise of Bitcoin Full movie