5 of the Best Bitcoin YouTube documentaries

By The Very Confused Martin Babalor | My journey to 1 Bitcoin | 1 Sep 2020

I'm truly passionate about documentaries and visual storytelling, almost as much as i am for cryptos, so I recently spent some times looking for documentaries about Cryptos and Blockchain.
Here's the best stories I could find: some of them are purely educational, some of them show the impact that blockchain could have all around the world

Inside The Cryptocurrency Revolution

VICE's Michael Moynihan traveled to Russia with Vitalik Buterin, inventor of the ethereum blockchain, to get a front-row seat to the geopolitical tug of war over Internet 3.0.
Two things you'll know watching this: Buterin is a genius and he cannot eat salad.

I Survived on Bitcoin for 14 Days | Cointelegraph Documentary

Have you ever tryed to ask, everytime you buy something, if they accept Bitcoin? This guy did it for 14 days, exploring the real usage of Crypto in everyday's life.

Bitcoin: Beyond The Bubble - Full Documentary

This one is pretty famous. It's the perfect documentary for your parents, or anyone who really needs to understand cryptos from the beginning.

How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg

This one is not really a documentary, it's a TED talk. In thisexplainer of the complex technology, Bettina Warburg describes how the blockchain will eliminate the need for centralized institutions like banks or governments to facilitate trade, evolving age-old models of commerce and finance into something far more interesting: a distributed, transparent, autonomous system for exchanging value.

Banking On Africa - The Bitcoin Revolution (full documentary) - True Story

This documentary is maybe my favourite one: it shows the ability of a techonologies to impact the life of communities in developing countries. I found similar stories around the world, where inflaction made life almost unbearable(Argentina, Uguanda, Venezuela). This is Youtube abstract of the documentary:

As the world races to lead the way in blockchain technology, could Africa have an advantage? This documentary follows the journeys of two African Bitcoin pioneers, Alakanani Itireleng (Founder of the Satoshi Centre, Botswana) and Lorien Gamaroff (Founder of Usizo). Exploring their hopes for this technology and how it could be used to improve the lives of millions of people, experts in finance, economics and technology weigh in with a mix of industry research, opinions and passion for what the future global economy could hold. And, with much of the developed world’s banking system becoming increasingly unstable, this documentary starts a conversation about cryptocurrency and Africa leapfrogging problems to live in a better global financial system.