The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
| 03 October 2014 (USA)
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A documentary about the development and spread of the virtual currency called Bitcoin.

Reviews
Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Tulip Coins The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin achieves the opposite of what one would assume its goals are.Right from the start we're greeted with the Winklevoss twins. Two men best known for 'suing the Facebook guy'. After a moment is taken for them to share their attempts to enrich themselves further at the expense of others the movies narrator goes on to tell the audience he's recently spent a great many bitcoins on a Butterfly Labs bitcoin miner.Butterfly labs is one of the many now bankrupt or under investigation companies we're invited to take a look at.The Rise and Rise is documented proof that the bitcoin landscape is made up of thieves, lairs and bad actors. The few people who get involved 'out of interest' are sheep that get eaten alive by the wolves at the top of the pyramid scheme.Notable people interviewed: Charlie Shrem - now a convicted felon due to money laundering.Erik Voorhees - claims to have renounced his American citizenship and fled to Panama after selling an illegal gambling company.Gavin Andresen - employed by the notoriously corrupt 'Bitcoin Foundation' (of which many members have stepped down) to maintain the Bitcoin code.Mark Karpeles - Amazing visionary who unfortunately got caught up and had his name sullied by the vicious money hungry Bitcoin community.Roger Ver - Bitcoin Missionary.This documentary is well worth watching, it's comedy gold.
allbean This movie is nothing but a fluff piece to pump a pyramid scheme that is already collapsing. Basically it's just a bunch of greedy pigs spewing propaganda to try to make you a greater fool in their pyramid. They are really desperate right now, because bitcoin is down over 70% in just a few months, so they need to scam more people fast before the scheme crashes completely. They are all losing huge amounts of money, and want you to join them on their misery. Just ignore them, and let them hold the hot potato till it burns their hands for good ;) Happy I could help you stay away from yet another online scam. Since there's money involved, expect the peddlers to come out in droves to try to push this get-poor-quick scheme down your throat.
John Mann Unless you are the type of person that enjoys shoveling your money into a furnace, don't waste your time with this "movie". Its intent is clearly to function as an ad to get greater fools to buy into a pyramid that is already crumbling. You see, bitcoins are nothing but virtual tokens. Greed and ignorance led many people to start trading real money for these tokens (think beanie babies, only even more ridiculous because bitcoins are completely virtual). In order to sustain this scheme, bitcoin "investors" need greater fools to come in and buy their virtual tokens for more money than they paid. That's why you see such great ratings and reviews in this "movie", they are trying to legitimize the scheme. Since the price of bitcoins has been cut in half in just a few months, the people in the pyramid are getting increasingly rabid and desperate. The author of this "movie" is one of those investors. His bias is clear throughout this 96 minutes ad. A true bitcoin documentary would have to be a lot longer, in order to accommodate for all the scams, ponzis, and all the theft that makes up the cryptocurrency world.
Steve James This movie is a most-watch for everybody, since it will inevitably affect you in the coming years. This technology is here to stay and will prove to be even more transcendental than the internet itself, since will have many more applications and will bring decentralization and equality for billions of people living currently in poverty.Decentralized systems are the way to empower the people, the path to re-set the control from the few to the many, are the future for everything. The potential implications of the development of distributed consensus technologies is revolutionary. We have now an open source peer to peer decentralized digital currency. It is very safe, since is cryptographically secured by a distributed global mathematical algorithm and public decentralized open source ledger, a revolutionary disruptive technology called 'Blockchain'.This could be the future of money for everything, from donations, micro-payments, money transfers, online shopping and bill payments, etc. Empowering and welcoming to the game to billions of unbanked people. And the block-chain peer-to-peer open source decentralized secure technology will be used for many more applications, like escrow, contracts, voting, global ledger, etc.We shouldn't be like the ones that were dismissing the internet not long ago as a "den of pedophiles, drug dealers and terrorists". The block-chain is the biggest thing since the internet and will benefit also the billions of under and unbanked people.