UNBANKED Documentary at Harlem International Film Festival 🍿🎬🎟️ — Tickets required, sold separately

​Our meetup this month will be on Friday September 19th for a screening of the new documentary UNBANKED, featuring the Harlem Bitcoin Community. 

​This is part of the Harlem International Film Festival at City College in Manhattan.

​Tickets will be available in advance or at the door.

​Afterward, there will be a Q&A and then we will go somewhere nearby for drinks and to discuss the movie.

🎟️ Ticket link 🎟️

​UNBANKED

​David Kuhn, Lauren Sieckmann, 2025, 86 min.

​Bitcoin has been controversial since its mysterious release by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Some say Bitcoin is only comprised of a small minority of anarchist computer nerds, or that it supports criminal activity as just another Ponzi scheme. Others herald the arrival of Bitcoin as financial freedom for the masses after years of abuse by a centralized banking cartel. Passionate views surround this ethereal yet hard-to-ignore beacon-or-bust proposition. Is Bitcoin a myth or a pathway to massmonetary self-determination?

​UNBANKED dispels the misinformation. We explore the history of currency, traditional monetary systems of control and what decentralization could mean for the lower classes. Is a peer-to-peer money system practical? Sustainable? We’ll follow the money, literally, [from Harlem], Argentina, London, Portugal, Central America, Nigeria and Ghana.

​We are living in a day and age where Bitcoin promises what more people claim they want: disintermediation, decentralization, freedom from transactional parasites, restoration of trust in peer-to-peer interaction and commerce, and a possible exit from the financial cartels who hold all the coins. There’s never been a viable alternative. Until now. Is Bitcoin a house of cards waiting to collapse? Or is it exactly what is needed as governments and central bankers siphon fees and funds from savers and debase fiat currency?