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Citadel Dispatch
CD202: EUGENE JARECKI - ASSANGE AND WIKILEAKS - THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN FILM
ODELL • Investing, Business, Technology
ODELL • Investing, Business, Technology

Episode Summary

Eugene Jarecki joins to discuss his new Julian Assange documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man, filmed over seven years across 15 countries under high security conditions. We get into WikiLeaks as a breakthrough for whistleblowers, Bitcoin’s early role in keeping WikiLeaks alive after Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal cut it off, and why Assange’s story remains central to freedom of information. Then we go deep on the broken state of film distribution, why legacy media and streamers will not touch the film, Jack Dorsey’s idea to release it through Bitcoiners first, and the experiment to make Bitcoin supporters official producers of the film before a wider release.The Six Billion Dollar Man: https://thesixbilliondollarman.comEugene on Nostr: https://primal.net/eugeneEPISODE: 202BLOCK: 949106PRICE: 1249 sats per dollarmore info on the show: https://citadeldispatch.comlearn more about me: https://odell.xyzmonitor the situation: https://citadelwire.comten31: https://ten31.xyzopensats: https://opensats.org
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Transcript

Chapters

  • Eugene Jarecki and his film
  • Seven years documenting Assange and the rise of WikiLeaks
  • WikiLeaks, Bitcoin, and early debanking lesson
  • Awards won vs. distribution roadblocks
  • The economics of the film and secure production challenges
  • Jack Dorsey’s idea: Bitcoiners as producers
  • Pricing the experiment: 0.01 BTC producer model
  • Perks for Bitcoin producers and explosive materials
  • Using Bitcoin to bypass gatekeepers and educate the public
  • How distribution used to work—and how it broke
  • Past films, shrinking media bandwidth, and recent examples
  • Community release vs. influencer gatekeepers
  • Why controversial topics need community-backed releases
  • Bringing non-Bitcoiners in and creating FOMO
  • Hollywood consolidation and the case for a new model
  • Opaque streamer deals and fear-based censorship
  • Putting the system on trial—film’s civic mission
  • Assange, Snowden, and the price of truth
  • The $6,000,000,000 bounty through IMF and World Bank pressure
  • Correa, Moreno, and the embassy-to-Belmarsh saga
  • Beyond the smears: extradition was the goal
  • Announcing the Bitcoin-only private watch party
  • Bitcoin’s role in Assange’s flight and what comes next
  • If this works: a template for future truth-telling films
  • Closing notes and upcoming episode teaser

    • Clips

    • The movie was filmed in 15 countries over about six years under highly securitized conditions. We filmed with Edward Snowden in…