Hip hop comedy drama Dope hits theaters tomorrow and for the first time ever, people will be able to buy their tickets with digital currency BitCoin. The film, which stars A$AP Rocky and Zoë Kravitz, and has a soundtrack by Pharrell, is a story about a group of old school hip hop geeks at high school who get tied up in a drugs deal and have to get rids of a stash quick. Accepting BitCoin as payment, main character Malcolm states, “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.”
Alex Winter, the director of documentary Deep Web, which tells the story of underground online marketplace Silk Road, told The Wrap, “The movie itself is using Bitcoin for drugs… That’s actually pretty accurate. There would have been no Bitcoin without the Silk Road. These disruptive technologies often come into the mainstream via contraband or criminality.” More than 900 of the 2000 US cinema showing the film will accept BitCoin for ticket purchases.