As a founder building a Bitcoin product, COIN was very good regardless of how you feel about coinbase. It spends more time telling the story of Armstrong building coinbase, which started as a custodial Bitcoin wallet, and Bitcoin generally than it does on altcoins, Web3, or anything else.
It's mostly
  1. a portrait of a founder building a product and massive company in a new tech space
  2. an exploration of the tech leap that Bitcoin represents
There are things to disagree with obviously, like the parts where the freedom-first nature of Bitcoin is falsely attributed to everything in the altcoin space. Or, where defi engineers claim building another wall street is changing the world. But it's a minority of the content measured by either time or intent.
Again, I wish it would've spent more time exploring Bitcoin and what it does for the world, and less time abusing Bitcoin's halo, but for builders in the space it's worth watching.
4/5 would recommend to bitcoin builders
I am going to check it out this week!
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I've been looking forward to watching it, but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be available in the UK yet.
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So this Armstrong character can see the value of ₿, creates a company around it, and then when he tells his story, charges dirty fiat for admission. So weird what success does to some people.
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Will definitely check it out, thanks dude.
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