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The Blockchain and Us
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The Blockchain and Us

2017 · 31 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Blockchain technology arrived through a paper published in 2008 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, promising money that moves without banks or governments, and economist-filmmaker Manuel Stagars spends this film asking what that promise actually means. He puts the question to nineteen people across five countries: Zug's mayor Dolfi Müller, whose Swiss town has become a magnet for crypto startups, ETH Zurich professor Roger Wattenhofer, Chamber of Digital Commerce founder Perianne Boring, and Alex Tapscott, co-author of Blockchain Revolution, among developers, cryptologists, and venture capitalists from the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. Stagars shoots these as straight conversations, letting each subject define the technology in their own terms rather than supplying a single tidy explanation. The film deliberately avoids functioning as a tutorial on how blockchain works, aiming instead at the harder argument underneath: what happens to finance, identity, and institutional power if intermediaries genuinely become optional. It closes with more open questions than settled claims, treating the technology's social consequences as still unwritten.