‘God Bless Bitcoin’ Review: Why Crypto is called people’s money?
I watched "God Bless Bitcoin," a documentary, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. I only wanted to gain a better understanding of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. I’ve heard all the arguments about inflation, fiat money, and how crypto is the future, but this documentary outshines the way they describe the financial transformation, despite the bias.
The documentary was produced by Brian Estes, CIO of Off the Chain Capital, and Kelly Estes, founder of an education-focused non-profit. Together, they partnered with an Emmy-nominated filmmaker to create an educational film arguing for the moral and ethical case for a Bitcoin standard.
The film starts by painting a picture of what life feels like today, for the millennials and the Gen Zs, where inflation is quietly eating away, our savings, families are struggling to get by even with two incomes, and young people are losing hope of ever owning a home or starting a family. Honestly, it didn’t feel like a distant story; it felt like what I see around me every day.
The point that retirees are being forced back into the workforce because their money doesn’t stretch far enough really stuck with me. The documentary states clearly that, earlier, a man could retire with a savings of a min $50,000. But in today’s reality, that is only a dream. Fiat currency can cover up theft in the name of policymaking, and the common man can never predict what the bank has in mind for the future.
From there, the documentary takes a sharp turn into Bitcoin, where the famous Robert Kiyosaki frames Bitcoin as “people’s money”, and I couldn’t help but nod along. The idea that Bitcoin is built by the people, for the people, feels empowering, especially when compared to a financial system that seems rigged or maybe not in our favour. We live in democracies that preach choice, but how much real financial choice do we have?
Bitcoin and its blockchain technology, as the documentary argues, could actually restore that power.
What I found particularly fascinating was how Perianne Boring, Founder and CEO of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, described Bitcoin as a “digital bearer instrument”—if you hold it, you own it.
No middlemen, no banks, no credit card companies taking their cut. Why, because the idea inbuilt in our minds about the ownership of money and its value, is for sure expected to change if the future belongs to cryptocurrency. The comparison to gold was another eye-opener: Bitcoin is more divisible, portable, and verifiable. For the first time, I started to see it less as “just internet money” and more as something designed to actually solve problems.
Robert Kennedy Jr. and Tim Draper didn’t mince words—CBDCs aren’t about innovation, they’re about control. Hearing that they come with “programmability” gave me chills. The idea that governments could not only track but also decide how and when we spend our money feels dystopian.
CEO of the Draper Associates, a venture capitalist firm, opined that countries that are clinging to CBDC are trying to control their people.
The part of the documentary that hit me hardest is the part where they said, fiat currency has effectively failed the people in a war-stricken country. Yan Pritzker, CTO of Swan Bitcoin, used the case of Ukraine as an example, where fiat money couldn't help them in dire need, so the only way to get money in Ukraine was bitcoin, because that was the only currency that could cross borders outside of banking hours.
I’ll admit—the film is definitely pro-Bitcoin. It doesn’t really spend time on Bitcoin’s drawbacks, like volatility or energy debates. But I get it. It’s not trying to be a balanced news report; it’s trying to introduce beginners to why Bitcoin matters. CEO of the Draper Associates, a venture capitalist firm, says that countries that are clinging to CBDC are trying to control their people.
The video was created, aiming to catch the attention of the viewer at all times from the beginning to the end. Hence, they use very captivating animations to discuss complex and in-depth information.
The film also shows how fragile money can be when controlled by a system. Refugees leave with little more than what officials allow, and Michael Saylor notes even gold can’t cross borders freely. Nic Carter, Castle Island Ventures, says that the system is confiscating the savings of an entire nation while providing a centralised method of managing money.
Now, the big shots in the documentary are all entrepreneurs and big names in the industry. Hence, it makes it more convincing for the audience to choose crypto over CBDC. However, what it lacks is the research into the greys or the blacks. Everything is not unicorns and rainbows. The unspoken tales of scams, wrong financial advice, and rug pulls are the scary negatives of ‘God blessed Bitcoin!’.
The narration had a way to get people to sit down and actually make an anti-crypto guy change their opinion. By the end, I realized Bitcoin isn't just about getting rich. It’s a broader conversation about freedom, fairness, and curiosity about a new system. It made me, a once-skeptical viewer, stop and seriously reconsider, or even shift the financial system altogether, in the future.
So if someone asked me to explain crypto, I’d tell them, “Well, ‘god bless bitcoin’ is a good place to start.”