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Litecoin founder Charlie Lee is appearing in an upcoming German TV documentary about Bitcoin, blockchains and the future of the internet.

The crowd-funded film, “Cryptopia”, features leading blockchain developers and insiders. In a preview of the interview, Lee outlines Litecoin’s advantages over Bitcoin and defines the word “shitcoin”.

“I think it’s just a derogatory term people use on coins that they don’t like. People have different definitions for it. I think for Bitcoin maximilists, people who only care about Bitcoin, everything else is a shitcoin.

In my point of view, I think a coin that is kind of a scam is a shitcoin. So people create coins just to get rich from it, print a lot of tokens out of thin air, trying to pump the price up, make a lot of money from it. And that’s not really providing a lot of value to the world.”

“Cryptopia” is directed by German filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann who made his directorial debut in 2015 with the release of “Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It”, which generated approximately 500,000 downloads via BitTorrent, Vimeo on Demand, Amazon Prime and iTunes.

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Kickstarter donations for the latest round of funding for “Cryptopia” wrapped today to overwhelming success as the project raised roughly 200% of its goal of $16,156.

Screen Australia, the country’s film commission, is covering 40% of the film’s budget. It’s slated for release in 2019.