Since discovering Bitcoin in 2011, Pittsburgh-based programmer Dan Mross has been enchanted by the promise of the controversial open-source digital currency. As the film’s title indicates,“The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” is the Mross brothers’ love letter to bitcoin and its potential to transform the global economy.
The documentary provides unprecedented insight into the peculiar but growing bitcoin subculture and introduces us to some entrepreneurs who have risked their livelihood and freedom to make bitcoin more accessible to the general public.
