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!