BitBeat: The Bitcoin Documentaries Are Coming

– The bitcoin documentaries are coming. Daniel Mross, the star of ‘The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin,’ a documentary he made with his brother Nicholas in 2013, was in New York this week promoting the film’s release on Friday (iTunes, Vimeo, small number of theaters). It leads a field that is going to seem pretty crowded pretty soon, as a handful of film makers have realized the potential of bitcoin not as a currency but as a story.
‘Rise and Rise’ has had several screenings – it made its initial premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival – and Mr. Mross has been making the rounds. He was in Boston earlier this week, where the film was shown at the Sibos financial conference. The reactions have varied greatly, he noted. While the crowd at Tribeca was full of bitcoin enthusiasts, the bankers at Sibos watched with a far keener eye, he said. ‘They were watching it more as an information piece.’

This post was published at Wall Street Journal on Oct 1, 2014.