Tomer ‘IamSatoshi’ Kantor: ‘I Still Look at Bitcoin as Political Activism’

Tomer ‘IamSatoshi’ Kantor: ‘I Still Look at Bitcoin as Political Activism’

Tomer Kantor is a London-based film producer who, for the past three years, has been documenting the Bitcoin phenomenon under his “IamSatoshi” label. Throughout that time, he released the short documentary Bitcoin in Kenya and over 100 interview snippets — a number of which have gone viral in the Bitcoin world. At the Bitcoin 2014 conference last year, Kantor also won the first ever Blockchain Award for “most creative video” with the trailer for his documentary project Ulterior States. Now, after many hours of researching, filming, interviewing and editing, Kantor is finally releasing the....


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The Political

Politics in today’s world no longer has anything political about it, and how Bitcoin revives The Political.