Open Road Films is sticking it to the man through its new movie Dope, accepting Bitcoin currency for ticket sales.
The film company has decided to use the same method to buy and sell tickets by which the movie’s characters buy and sell drugs. The Wrap reported that Dope is the first movie to ever allow fans to use the digital currency to purchase tickets.
“I just read that money as we know it is dead. Soon the world is only going to buy and sell products using Bitcoins. It’s like a complicated math equation,” Dope‘s main character Malcolm said in the film.
MovieTickets.com will be using GoGoin to process digital payments, enabling customers to use the futuristic payment system, and eschewing a major banking system.
Bitcoin, according to its website, “uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network.”
“Bitcoin was designed so it could not be regulated easily,” hacker Alex McGeorge, who frequently works with cryptocurrencies, told The Wrap.
“I don’t know that I could convince my grandma to use Bitcoin. It seems mostly like a young person’s game and that’s who they are marketing to.”
