Below is an interview we did with ONN for our recent documentary "97% Owned".

ONN: It seems clear that with this documentary you felt the need to inform people about how our financial system works. What else could be done to make citizens aware of the dangers that this system could lead to?

Queuepolitely: For us it’s not about ‘dangers’ per se but truth and equality. Our present reality is one in which the financial system must provide an incentive framework to reward the few at the expense of the many. People tend to believe that the ideas surrounding money and the economy are real, but they are merely constructed to provide a framework for incentive and meaning. And once you understand the complexity of it, you realize that it is essentially a form of imperialism akin to International Empire and National slavery. It underlines and enforces the divisions that are at the heart of our societies.

We did our best to try to communicate what is essentially quite a complex topic in an accessible way, and to highlight the absurdity of it. We think better films with wider appeal can be made about this topic, but we decided to attempt the shock therapy approach, because the subject is so contrary to the common perception of reality, it’s a topic that many people simply can’t even begin to comprehend, because it breaks with so many of the taboos of what we perceive as real.

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Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency based on an open-source protocol that was designed and created by a pseudonymous developer named Satoshi Nakamoto.

Below are six talks from the London 2012 Bitcoin Conference, by Richard Stallman, Max Keiser, Juri Mattila, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Mike Hearn and James Mcarthy.

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