Bitcoin emerges in 2009 out of the wreckage of the previous year's financial crisis, designed by a pseudonymous creator known only as Satoshi Nakamoto to move money worldwide without banks, borders, or transaction fees. Director Hans Busstra follows the currency from cypherpunk blueprint to global phenomenon through the people who staked everything on it, chief among them Roger Ver, nicknamed 'Bitcoin Jesus,' who bought in when coins traded for pennies and watched the exchange rate climb past a thousand dollars in 2013. Interviews with early adopters, skeptics, and monetary theorists lay out the case for a currency answerable to no state or institution, and the case against: anonymity that shields criminal transactions, volatility that scares off ordinary users, and a nagging resemblance to the very financial elitism Bitcoin was built to dismantle. Nakamoto's identity remains unconfirmed throughout. The film, produced for VPRO's Backlight series, keeps both possibilities alive: a genuine escape from banking as we know it, or an elaborate new hierarchy wearing decentralization as a disguise.