Cryptomania | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Cryptocurrency has been on the rise for years. Now, it's a hot financial product touted as the currency of the future. B | dG1fa1pNOWxmdVRSSUk

Transcript

00:00The hype about cryptocurrency is everywhere, promising to liberate us from big banks and

00:12big tech, daring us to invest and take control.

00:18Fortune favours the brain.

00:23It is the ultimate chasing the dream.

00:26It is the ultimate embracing of celebrity.

00:28What do you think?

00:30Are you in?

00:31You know what?

00:32You're in.

00:33It's the ultimate embracing of ego, all wrapped up in financial product.

00:37And financial product in quotes.

00:40That is powerful.

00:43Despite wild booms and crashes, proponents are adamant that cryptocurrency and the tech

00:49it's built on are the wave of the future.

00:53With these technologies, we don't need to rely on large corporations.

00:58We have exponential innovation and development.

01:04From payments to gaming to financial infrastructure to lending, the sky's the limit.

01:10To critics, it's a form of gambling that exploits the naive and vulnerable.

01:16Cryptocurrency has no real value aside from the shared delusion that it's worth something.

01:24I believe it's one big Ponzi scheme.

01:26Cryptomania.

01:27Is it a fad, a fraud or the future?

01:30Digital currencies and the tech they're built on are being hailed as a revolution that will

01:35transform the internet and society.

01:38But amid the hype, there's been an explosion in crime and fresh proof that cryptocurrencies

01:43are highly volatile investments.

01:46We talk to true believers and a critic sounding a clarion call.

01:51Warning, if we don't deal with the dangers now, it'll be too late.

02:11Available now on Video On Demand.