Justin Ehrenhofer had an idea, a bit of money, and a desire to have a box office smash during the pandemic while supporting closed theaters and promoting cryptocurrency. With community support and a movie that cost nothing to make, he did it. Sort of.

" Monero Means Money, a documentary that is really a repurposed 88-minute-long lecture espousing the virtues of the Monero cryptocurrency, cost nothing to make. And on the weekend of April 10, it was the #2 movie in America, according to box office tracker the-numbers.com.

Now, obviously, theatres are all closed down due to the coronavirus pandemic and movie releases have been put on hold. But that didn't stop Monero Means Money director and producer Justin Ehrenhofer from seeing an opportunity to create a film promoting Monero, a...

Justin Ehrenhofer had an idea, a bit of money, and a desire to have a box office smash during the pandemic while supporting closed theaters and promoting cryptocurrency. With community support and a movie that cost nothing to make, he did it. Sort of.

" Monero Means Money, a documentary that is really a repurposed 88-minute-long lecture espousing the virtues of the Monero cryptocurrency, cost nothing to make. And on the weekend of April 10, it was the #2 movie in America, according to box office tracker the-numbers.com.

Now, obviously, theatres are all closed down due to the coronavirus pandemic and movie releases have been put on hold. But that didn't stop Monero Means Money director and producer Justin Ehrenhofer from seeing an opportunity to create a film promoting Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, and get it to the top of the box office charts...