Eugene Jarecki Knew Streamers ‘Were Never Going to Touch’ His Julian Assange Documentary. So He’s Releasing It Through Bitcoin With the Help of Jack Dorsey

By Nick Vivarelli

Nick Vivarelli

International Correspondent

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Eugene Jarecki has teamed with former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to launch his documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, using what he calls a “pre-theatrical digital release” model that will bring the film straight to the global Bitcoin community and the general public. It’s an effort to bypass U.S. studios and streamers that, he says, “were never going to touch this.”

The Emmy-winning American director and Dorsey, who now heads digital Bitcoin payments company Block, were in Tuscany, Italy, over the weekend, where they attended Rick Rubin’s under-the-radar music event Festival of the Sun. There, Dorsey held a conversation with Edward Snowden on digital freedom and the future of the web, marking a rare public interview for the former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and now lives in Russia.

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