Tribe Vibe - The Movie Edition
☀️ Hello Tribe Vibers!
This week we take a look at newly released and upcoming Bitcoin films. We catch up with Dirty Coin director and producer, Alana Mediavilla who has just released a foundational documentary about Bitcoin Mining. Prepare to have your mind blown! 🤯
We challenge you to learn about Bitcoin in 37 minutes, and take a look at a new book to teach kids about bitcoin through games by Free Market Kids.
Enjoy! 🧡
Editorial Note
Welcome to another exciting week in Bitcoin! Coming up:
👩🎓 Bitcoin 101: Bitcoin Basics in 37 minutes!
🗞News: The latest Bitcoin News
👩💼Women in Business: Upcoming Bitcoin developer conferences
🐣Moms: Tips on how to teach your kids about Bitcoin
🎧 & 🎥Vibe of the Week: Our content recommendations
📈 Trending Topics in the New
1.Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev sentenced to 64 months
The Scoop🕵️♂️:
Alexey Pertsev, a developer for the crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, has been sentenced to 64 months in prison by a Dutch court for money laundering. The court determined that Tornado Cash facilitated money laundering activities without sufficient barriers, contributing to the illicit transfer of funds. Pertsev was first arrested in August 2022, following Tornado Cash's blacklisting by the U.S. Treasury due to its alleged use by the North Korean hacking group Lazarus in major crypto thefts. The outcome of this trial may influence future cases against other Tornado Cash developers.
Why you should care🚨: Governments are intensifying their efforts to crack down on privacy-preserving tools like Tornado Cash, which are seen as enablers of illegal activities. This crackdown represents a broader attempt to regulate and restrict the use of Bitcoin and similar technologies, which could impact their accessibility and the privacy of users. As authorities target these tools, it is worth considering why the creation of a privacy preserving tool is considered a crime, simply because that tool may have been used for criminal activities.
If you manufacture knives, are you responsible if one of those knives is used to stab someone? If you manufacture cars, are you responsible if someone drinks and drives? You can see where we are heading with this. 🔒🌐
Fines for actual crimes:
Meanwhile, here is a quick reminder of some of the fines the banking industry has received for failing to prevent/facilitating money laundering:2019: Standard Chartered fined $1.1 billion “violating anti-money laundering regulations”
2017: Deutsche Bank fined $630 million “for accepting over $10 billion from Russian customers, which regulators said was linked to money laundering activity”
2020: JP Morgan Chase fined $920 million “for trading misconduct and deceptive behavior”
2012: HSBC fined $1.9 billion “for violating anti-money laundering laws by facilitating money laundering and drug trafficking activities”
How many bankers went to jail over these crimes you ask? Not many. Something close to zero.
📚 Read the full hall of shame here: https://www.enzuzo.com/blog/biggest-aml-fines
🙏 God Bless Bitcoin
🎥 July 2024 sees the release of the hotly anticipated documentary “God Bless Bitcoin”.
Created by hedge fund manager Brian Estes and his wife Kelly, God Bless Bitcoin’s stated mission is:
”To Spread Truth, Understanding And Hope.
God Bless Bitcoin takes a deep dive into the transformative and moral aspects of Bitcoin and the impact that this technology can have on the world. The film also explores connections with ancient scriptures and the world’s oldest religions to show the moral case for Bitcoin.”
Watch the teaser here:
💼 Women in Business
Are you a developer looking to learn about bitcoin?
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👉 Find out more here: https://btcplusplus.dev/
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👩👧👦 Bitcoin for Kids
Free Market Kids have published a book to facilitate the study of bitcoin through games.
“Take self-custody of your education and start learning about Bitcoin. This guidebook based on the STEM certified game, HODL UP, helps the new and curious take their first steps through gameschooling. It’s exactly what the title says … 21 Bitcoin lessons.”
📚 Get your copy here.
🎧 & 🎥 Vibe of the Week - Dirty Coin
Must-Listen Podcast: 🎧 Eighteen months ago, we interviewed Alana Mediavilla, the Director and Producer of the award-winning documentary Dirty Coin. At that time, she was approximately six months into a project that would become not only one of the defining documentaries on Bitcoin mining, but also a film capturing an era that stretches from the creation of the internet to the advent of sound money.
Alana founded her production company ‘Filmkik’ over 10 years ago and has been producing videos for Silicon Valley companies throughout this time. She has had an interest in bitcoin since 2017, but increasingly she came to realise the importance of bitcoin in protecting individual and societal freedoms throughout the world.
Having observed some of the rhetoric around the environmental damage that bitcoin mining was allegedly causing, she decided to investigate further. The result is the documentary ‘Dirty Coin’ which held its premiere at the Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw, 20th April 2024, where it won the award for best movie.
The film explores bitcoin mining, one of its underlying technologies of bitcoin's ‘proof-of-work’, and grid financing. The film separates fact, from fiction and provides a window into what bitcoin mining is and its impact.
You can follow Alana’s work here:
https://twitter.com/dirtycoindoc
https://www.dirtycointhemovie.com/
https://twitter.com/AlanaMediavilla
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