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The former is one of Voorheerss so many allegations in defense of a technology that was born as a response to the banking crisis of and that today is seen as an monetary revolution. The difficult relationship between Wall Street and Bitcoin covers a large part of the documentary.
It is here that the regulations imposed by Benjamin Lawski - a kind of nemesis of John Turturro acting as an antagonists in a financial thriller - the principal superintendent of financial services of New York, bitcoin doc as the great threat to the precepts of the founders of the Bitcoin's liberal ideology. Standing side by side with films like "The Big Short" or "The Forecaster" Watch it on Guidedocpieces that try to explain the recent financial crises, "Banking on Bitcoin" is one of those essential documentaries to understand an economic bitcoin doc that could, sooner bitcoin doc than later, change the bitcoin doc we sell and buy everything we consume.
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