A glossy looking documentary series centered on the history of money and cryptocurrency premiere on August 19th at 7:00 am UTC, and features interviews from a long listing of top crypto figures.

The 12 episode video series is somewhat confusingly called "Coins Podcast" and the start 2 episodes  drop on YouTube today. The show is hosted by Patrick Mclain of blockchain accelerator Mousebelt, and narrated by histrion Robert Davi, who has played roles in Die Hard, James Bond: License to Impale and Predator two.

The docu-serial features interviews with crypto proponents and cardinal figures in the sector such equally FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, ShapeShift CEO Erik Vorhees, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, founder/CEO of Global Macro Investor Raoul Pal, and Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky to proper noun a few.

The bulk of the Coins Podcast was shot at the Old San Francisco Mint, which is a historical landmark and a branch of the United States Mint, a Treasury agency responsible for producing coinage in the U.S.

The series will explore primal points in the history of money such every bit President Richard Nixon'due south removal of the gold standard in 1971 that saw fiat currency untethered to anything tangible, and the significant bear upon crypto and blockchain tech accept had on the global fiscal system since 2009.

Key crypto narratives will too be explored such every bit scams, hacks, illicit activity, billionaires and the bankrupt.

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Speaking in an Aug.17 promo for the series, OG Bitcoin proponent Erik Voorhees stated that:

"Information technology's a skillful reminder to people that money is a story that has inverse throughout human history [...] and Bitcoin is clearly like this next evolution of how money and value tin can piece of work."

"And part of understanding information technology is to understand the history of monies that came before," he added.