21: The cultural revolution of money

A feature documentary on how our relationship with money changed forever.

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Launching on Kickstarter on 6 October at 10:00 CEST

The book 21, with Pascal Boyart's mural on the cover: Liberty leading protesters in yellow vests under an orange bitcoin flag.

Nobody taught us what economic freedom could be. We learned from the people who went first — teenagers, evangelists, developers, fugitives, believers. Some freed people. Some robbed them. Most were trying to teach a lesson they hadn't finished learning themselves.

21 is what they taught us, and what it cost them.

Six chapters, from the whitepaper to today

Genesis 2008–2010

What did the people who built it for nothing think it would do to the rest of us — and knowing what it became, what would they do differently?

Crusaders 2011–2013

What did it mean to be part of this nascent war, and why were people willing to be arrested for it?

Schisms & Miracles 2014–2017

If code is not law, then what is — and who gets to decide?

Purgatory 2018–2020

Who was building the doors the institutions would walk through?

The Feast 2020–2022

What really lasted, and what really died?

The Revelation 2022–today

What did the rest of us keep from all this — and who is still paying for it?

Satoshi Nakamoto. No known photograph.

What backers get

The book
210 pages: the interviews at length, documents, court filings, photographs and the timeline. Edited, printed and delivered by Konsensus.
The film
A feature documentary in six chapters. Backers see it the day it's released.
The production diary
A private feed for backers, from the week the campaign closes.
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Were you there?

Meetup videos, conferences filmed in hotel function rooms, forum screenshots, photos, letters. This film is made from what people kept.

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Made by

Anthony “Chad” Papavassiliou
Author and director. Host of Radio Chad, a nightly French-language show on crypto and individual sovereignty.
Zee Zhang
Camera and sound.
Konsensus Network
Book editor and publisher.
Asri Bendacha
Advisor. Director of the Netflix documentary Follow Me and the Spotify documentary Live Free or Die.
Pascal Boyart
Cover: authorised adaptation of his mural La Liberté guidant le peuple 2019 (after Eugène Delacroix, 1830).