Hi Steemit community, may I introduce myself?
I am an entrepreneur, writer and film producer, specialised in Bitcoin and Blockchain technology. My company Bitfilm creates short commercial films for clients, most of them Bitcoin and Blockchain start-ups.
I have been promoting Bitcoin and Blockchain technology since June 2011 by writing about it and by organising events and meetups. I have also been a speaker and panelist at numerous conferences. My book A Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin and Austrian Economics is available in English and German, Rick Falkvinge wrote the preface for the English edition.
If you upvote and share this post and let me know you did, I will send you a digital copy of my book. It's an easily understandable and entertaining introduction into Bitcoin, especially for complete newbies, non-geeks and non-economists.
I first heard about Bitcoin in spring 2011. At that time I was working on a film project about money for which I read a lot of books and interviewed many experts on the monetary system and Austrian economics. At first I was skeptical about Bitcoin, but the more I learned about decentralised, stateless money, the more it fascinated me.
In 2012 we produced our first animated film for a Bitcoin client, the German marketplace Bitcoin.de. It was a great way to learn how to explain Bitcoin in easy words and funny pictures. I spoke ze German professor viz ze heavy German akzent myself.
From then on we produced many videos for Bitcoin and Blockchain companies and projects, such as Mycelium, Colored Coins, LaBitConf, KnC Miner, Bitbond, Omni, Genesis Mining, Tauchain and many more. Here is an interview about our work with Cointelegraph.
Since the year 2000 we have been organising the Bitfilm Festival, which showcases films that use digital technology in a creative way. In 2014 we reinvented the festival to become the world's first film festival about Bitcoin. We didn't even have to change the name!
All we had to do was to curate a film programme and to organise an event in Berlin, then the local Bitcoin communities organised their own events decentrally. So in 2014 and 2015 there were Bitfilm events in Seoul, Budapest, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Saigon and Ubud/Bali.
I was thrilled by the amount of idealism and work Bitcoin activists around the world put into this! You really meet a lot of smart and cool people in the crypto world and I am looking forward to meeting more of you guys here on Steemit!
Please feel free to contact me!
Hello and welcome to Steemit. I met u when u came to Kolkata in Feb, 2014.
For some time, I was thinking about how Steemit would be to release short film and documentaries. Films, which generally finds it difficult to make its way to the big screen. If those are released on Steemit and people upvote them according to how they like the film, then that might be beneficial from film producer's angle. What do u think about it to use Steemit as film release platform?
Hi Redstone,
that sounds like a good idea! I have to understand how Steemit works, as I am just starting to use it.
Let's keep in touch about this!
Best regards
Aaron
Great for film programme, I agree and support with u, about organisation events @aaronkoenig
Damnit! I just had this idea myself. :)
You beat me to the punch.
I basicly already have a complete concept for a series based on Mutant Chronicles. Problem is with how you could ever produce such a series. First of all you need funding for all the CGI, so you got to find someone (a jew preferbly) who can introduce you to the movers and shaker of Hollywood. So how would you ever get a project like that started? Who would pay if there where no guarantee for a pay-out?
Through Steemit, you could basicly do crowd-funding. Let's say that you release the manuscript 'for free' and let people upvote each episode, like a book. And once you got enough money to actually make the movie, you could then later release the episodes exclusivly on Steemit and thus create more money to fund the project.
I wanted to make a video on this and get upvotes for it, but now it kinda feels stale and last nights news...
Maybe it's synchronicity?
I can see that more and more smart people joining steemit. That is good sign for all of us.
Welcome
Exciting news, looking forward to a Steemit long feature now! ;) Namaste
Hi Eric,
I am eager to write something longer soon!
Cheers
Aaron
hi @aaronkoenig !
nice to meet you and welcome to the best community over the Internet! 8]
Thanks for joining the community, and for helping spur the crypto-currency revolution. I would be interested in your thoughts regarding my blog regarding using the Article 5 of the US Constitution to replace the Federal Reserve with crypto-currencies?
https://steemit.com/money/@titusfrost/how-to-end-the-federal-reserve-using-article-5-of-the-u-s-constitution-and-crypto-currencies
Nice post. I'm curious to read your book to "steem" my knowledge. I started my crypto-world journey several years back, more practical... even though I'm not into the technical things behind the cryptocurrency, I'm learning how to use it.
Of course it's not always as good as we thought, but the journey took me to a life-changing experience. Something that I've never imagined before that we are now in era of "In Time" movie. It's not exactly as we've seen 5 years ago, but the value behind it is somewhat similar with what we are in right now.
It looks like Steemians like your accent Aaron ;-)
Looking forward to watching your movies...after I'm done with the book ;-)
Welcome to steemit! Look forward to learning from your experience and reading your posts
Hi @aaronkoenig. I remember listening to your talk about Austrian economics at the Latin American Bitcoin Conference last year. That was a great event.
Welcome to Steemit!
I am new to Bitcoin in general so what better time to be introduced properly to it than through your content! Welcome to Steemit!
Moin & welcome on board :) - nice to see you joining - guess it shouldn't be a problem to collect enough material for a documentary about STEEM / steemit.com
Welcome and thanks for the offer. I'm new to cryptocurrency, so I would love to read plain-English explanations.
Thanks, please shoot me an email to aaron@bitfilm.com so I can send you the book (as a PDF).
Happily up voted at the 11th hour! I'm a novice at cryptocurrency and would be thrilled to read your book.
Seems to me that I need to make myself a comfy home here on Steemit.
Following you @aaronkoenig with great anticipation to learn all I can, as quickly as I can.
Welcome to Steemit!
Edited to include the fact that I shared your post on my poor dusty Twitter feed.
Thanks, please shoot me an email to aaron@bitfilm.com so I can send you the book (as a PDF).
@aaronkoenig Welcome to the Steemit community! You've written a mighty impressive introduction post regarding your accomplishments and it's good to have you aboard.
I wouldn't mind checking out your book and giving it a read. I love to stay informed about all the different global perspectives on Bitcoin. I've noticed opinions on crypocurrency seem to vary a little from one geographic region to another and would love to hear your views on the currency given your extensive knowledge and history with it.
Thanks, please shoot me an email to aaron@bitfilm.com so I can send you the book (as a PDF).
Done, my e-mail is of and away. :) TY again for letting me check out your book. I can't wait to read it. :-)
My friend just told me about Steemit today and Bitcoin and I'd like to learn more about it. It sounds fascinating and a good vehicle for a positive future. I'm also new to Steemit and am learning how it works. I'd love to read your book. In the meantime, I'll check out your videos.
Thanks, please shoot me an email to aaron@bitfilm.com so I can send you the book (as a PDF).
Upvoted and shared. Would love a copy of your book. I am based in Hungary...not far from you :-)
Thanks, please shoot me an email to aaron@bitfilm.com so I can send you the book (as a PDF).
Will do. Thank you.
I tried sharing this to my FB page but the share button is just inactive gray, noob here, what did I break?
WC to steemit! Goodluck & all the best with all your plans & endeavors ;)
Here is my first real post: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@aaronkoenig/why-the-money-monopoly-is-evil
Hey, willkommen Aaron! Schön Dich hier zu sehen!
Nice to see you onboard Aaron! Here´s Frank from Argentina.