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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#651: Bitcoin-Backed Independent Film Funding with Forager

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Ali Webb and Carlos Flores from Forager to discuss how they're using Bitcoin-backed funding to enable independent filmmakers to create original content without traditional studio interference or investor pressure.

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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.3

Carlos and Ali, welcome to the show.

0:39.0

Thanks for having us.

0:40.7

This is, I'm happy to be speaking with you guys because it's a budding theme on this show,

0:46.6

a very small theme, but a budding one.

0:48.5

And one that excites me because I think it's a signal that Bitcoin is breaking out of the bubbles, the community

0:57.2

bubbles that have existed in my 12 years following.

1:01.3

It seems that what you guys are doing, a forger really validates Bitcoin being used as a tool

1:08.6

by anybody, not just cipherpks or people that care about sound money,

1:13.3

but what you guys are doing to Forger in the world of entertainment.

1:18.9

And Carlos, we were just talking before we hit record that you heard my discussion with Johnny Vance

1:25.2

from Total Twins in Angel Studio and reached out.

1:29.3

And as I was also telling you, I have a friend, a very, very close friend.

1:33.3

And we've been talking about this idea quite a bit, the intersection of Bitcoin in entertainment,

1:39.3

an attempt to get better art into the world and let smaller artists, content creators, whatever you want to define them as

1:48.6

get their work into the world and actually give them a chance to

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