Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain
- Directed by: Alex Winter
- Released: 2021 (educational)
- Year of Production: 2018
Hacktivist and Blockchain expert Lauri Love fights extradition in Trust Machine – His computer skills a threat to the U.S. government. Tech innovators strike a raw nerve as banks and network pundits rush to condemn volatile cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain technology. Why are banks terrified while UNICEF embraces it to help refugee children?
Award-winning filmmaker ALEX WINTER shows that proponents of Blockchain are already using the technology to change the world; fighting income inequality, the refugee crisis and world hunger.
NARRATED BY ROSARIO DAWSON
“Trust Machine has shown us how beautiful inventions can be twisted by entrenched powers. The film’s hope is that, if more people are paying attention this time around, blockchain might remain a tool for popular empowerment.” – Hollywood Reporter
“The film does a phenomenal job as setting up the optimal benefits that blockchain could lead to, but not without support and empowerment from activists for major corporations and governmental powers to accept the emerging technologies.” – The Knockturnal
Alex Winter is a director, writer and actor who has worked across film, television and theater. In 2019, Winter released two new documentary feature films; The Panama Papers and Trust Machine, about the rise of bitcoin and the blockchain, available at Breaker. Previous documentary work includes Deep Web, about the online black market Silk Road, and the trial of its creator Ross Ulbricht. Just completed is Zappa, the first all-access documentary on the life and times of Frank Zappa. The Kickstarter campaign for this project was the highest funded documentary in crowdfunding history.
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