Topic: [Collection Thread] Series and films in which Bitcoin (or Altcoins) appear (Read 25740 times)

I have seen but a few of this interesting mind bursting series
Cold Wallet
This happen to be a Bitcoin movie with that gives good insight on the complexity that revolves around digital assets and cold storage approach. Here a big crypto exchange TPX as called had millions of clients assets  frozen and then tension came in which lead to plots centered around theft of a cold storage
YouTube documentary: Cold Wallet


Electric Money
This premier explained the inception of Bitcoin, all the challenges it ever faced which includes the conflict it had amongst crypto communities and some regulatory scrutiny
YouTube documentary: Electric Money

Both series are educative and interesting. While Electric money is a good start for Bitcoin enthusiast who will love to have some oral explanation about Bitcoin and its surrounding experience so far, Cold Money will teach caution about dealing with exchanges and how cold wallet storage works where we securely save our coin offline.

A French film titled Nouveaux riches AKA All-Time High

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27921620/


Fair enough if you don't want to include documentaries but I definitely wouldn't say this is just a cheap youtuber feature. There are countless of those and I wouldn't even suggest posting them, but I was actually quite surprised by both the cast and quality of at least the interviews, even though I do agree that the poster is cheap and isn't very good.

not really a movie or tv series by any proper studio. just another youtube vid by some low budget videographer

heck even their image is low budget,
EG just a black curve on earth to signify a money slot, they couldnt even do shadows or edit in the earths crust or magma to make it look like a real hole in the earth..
EG the coin is standard image, they couldnt even get the shading/shine to match the earth/space scene of directions of sun, nor even earths reflection on the coin

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i say this because this topic i feel was meant to highlight the big budget popular tv/movie studio recognition of bitcoin content, not the thousands of self made crap-docu that appear on youtube

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i think we should concentrate on the bitcoin recognition by studios and entertainment stream service(netflix,amazon) not bother with those little self made youtube stuff
analogy:
its like having a topic where mainstream elites/celebs quote mentioning bitcoin.. but then it gets degraded into a topic where every tweet by any rando that mentions bitcoin is quoted

There's a new documentary out: God Bless Bitcoin



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32881100/


I haven't watched it yet but has quite a few big names in it: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Michael Saylor, Mark Cuban, Cathie Wood, Tony Hawk amongst others.

Edit: The whole thing is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oksraL7wN6Q

There is a scene about bitcoin mining in the last episode of Futurama:

https://x.com/DocumentingBTC/status/1877726809048895819

Hotel Bitcoin

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31308426/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFmTepl8aGg&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE


I haven't seen it yet but I think it's safe to assume it mentions bitcoin  .

Bitcoin is mentioned in a Netflix Christmas movie with Lindsay Lohan, Our Little Secret, at 00:19:36

You also have, also on Netflix, the documentary about the Bitfinex hack, Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein, the Biggest Heist Ever

Yeah.. I looked at the trailer link that you provided, and there was another point at about 1:20 into the trailer that the girl was pointing a gun at her phone, and so who knows if that particular rage was aimed at anything related to finances or if it was just some rage that merely came from some meaningless aspects of our social media interactions, which many of us could probably relate to those kind of rages in regards to information (communications) we might sometimes get through our phones. 

I cannot really tell why the seemingly main characters seem to be having such difficulties with each other and if money (or bitcoin or crypto) have anything to do with their difficulties to relate to one another or if there just might be some pent up inability to establish a relationship based on other random and/or not explained reasons.. so maybe the trailer served a purpose of creating curiosity in regards to what and/or why is there so much entertaining drama in regards to why they are having troubles "getting" or perhaps "staying" together.

Has anyone watched the series BEEF on Netflix? There is a shot on a bitcoin wallet app at 10s in the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-GX-2-AKcs
It must play at least a little part in the plot.

For those who have seen the series, is it any good?
They just announced a 2nd season with an impressive cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny...

(Is this collection thread still active? It seems that the first post has not been updated for a while now)

'Crypto' is mentioned in The Instigators, a Doug Liman movie for Apple with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, at around 8:05:

"Miccelli's old school. Cash bar. Hundred a drink. No Venmo. No PayPal. No fucking crypto, Google bullshit. Cash."

'Crypto' is mentioned in Ghostbusters, Frozen Empire, at 57'45:

"Come with me to the library.
- Are we not in the library?
- Upstairs is just for show. Gilded research rooms where struggling actors can Twitch-stream and buy crypto. The old library is below."

2024 movie "lift" staring kevin hart
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14371878/


no mention of bitcoin but NFT mentioned a dozen times in first 20 minutes (art+NFT auction related scene)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15314262/

I'm not sure if they mentioned Bitcoin directly (I might have missed it) but in the new David Ayer "The Beekeeper" movie starring Jason Statham they mention cryptocurrencies a few times along with one mention of NFTs and blockchains.

https://www.polygon.com/24035803/beekeeper-david-ayer-interview-jason-statham


They might have done a deal with Craig on this for his life story or for his input on it but that doesn't mean other people can't make one about him. If someone wrote a book about him then anyone could buy the rights to that. People have made films based on articles before and the Andrew O'Hagan one was pretty good titled The Satoshi Affair: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n13/andrew-o-hagan/the-satoshi-affair

He also released a book called The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age but it was only part about Craig and featured two other works: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/11/secret-life-three-true-stories-andrew-ohagan-julian-assange-review

According to that article it seems they were trying to get Andrew to write an autobiography on Craig but it probably soured/backfired. Similarly, the same thing happened to Julian Assange but that ended up being released as an "unauthorized" biography instead.

Personally I just hope he gets arrested soon so there's a nail in the coffin on the story. Maybe we should try write a crowd-sourced script and then try get it crowdfunded. As I said before, I think the whole Craig debacle would make a great thriller, especially the bit where he gets raided by the ATO and flees Australia. Give a read/listen to the Satoshi affair article and the relevant episodes on the Dr Bitcoin podcast and you'll see what I mean.

I know, I've watched it as soon as I got off work, I knew I had to and yes it got mentioned a lot of times and it actually helps the story and the audience being engaged because the antagonists or the bad guys aren't dumb or isn't using any unfamiliar word or stuff as a means of ransom. So refreshing to watch an action film that's not explosive at the end or a bad ending or a cliffhanger, just a generic good ending for the good guys and talking about the things they want to do and what they've done throughout the film plus Aaron Eckhart is a really great actor, loved his Two-Face in the Dark Knight Trilogy.

big movie producers dont buy geek movies about inventors
they buy movies about fraud, deceit, con-artists, scammers, psychopaths,

think about it
real satoshi story: guy patches ideas together of monetary system makes white paper, releases code, others edit code. someone buys pizza to monetise units created. ........ doesnt fit any action,thriller,drama category.. so no engagement with big producers

csw story: con man scams millions of people for $millions. fakes inventing things, takes people to court and loses.... sounds more like a thriller, drama to me.. so more engaging with big producers

I just hope they are not naive enough to go with any movies/books etc, because guess what? We have all of his post history lies and deceptions archived to have a laugh at when the time comes. This idea could work before dig, but now that dig is here, fraud and deception will not be tolerated. 😉

CSW's investors(mainly macgregor and ayres) own the licencing to do book/movie deals. and have never been interested in investment ROI from "satoshi stash" due to them deep down knowing he isnt satoshi. they have however kept up the rouse to keep the drama alive as it has potential money making use of story telling of conference tours, books, movies and even court cases

so yes there will be many books and movies.. but right now the investors of CSW dont want to low ball their story versions to some cheap documentarian. they are hoping for big movie production phone calls asking to buy the story

ayres has since 2020 been video documenting scenes hoping to pitch to movie producers..
https://cryptopotato.com/calvin-ayre-to-film-a-movie-proving-craig-wright-is-satoshi-nakamoto/
still not happening yet, he hasnt got any big budget movie deals yet, but would sue anyone else who tries without their permission
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even later sequels that then turn the story from supposed inventor to fraudster (admitting the rouse and con games) and then showing the frauds of ATO and other things.. its all revenue generation in CSW's investors eyes.. so good or bad they win

Be careful what you wish for. We probably won't get a biopic about the true Satoshi as nobody really knows much about him for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if Faketoshi tries to get a film made about himself. I saw there's a biography about him coming out later this year: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hero-Villain-Satoshi-Built-Bitcoin/dp/B0CM281JKM


That could certainly get optioned for a movie, though I'm hoping a movie about Craig's fradulence will come out before that. The Dr Bitcoin podcast also have their own book coming out this year called Faketoshi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngS6_EHFrf4

I've always thought the debacle with Craig when he left Australia as he was raided by the ATO would make qood film. It certainly read like a thriller.

i wasnt paying attention to the movie, another person was watching it in another room and i only over heard the part i mentioned and it perked my ears up to ask them to tell me timestamp of scene.

i normally pay attention when the words "bitcoin" are mentioned and less so when "crypto" or "wallet" are mentioned.
however i might edit my post to include all subtitle inclusions of bitcoin from the movie

Bitcoin is actually mentioned several times in the film, and even a hardware wallet (Ledger type) appears. The bad guys demand $100 million in BTC not to reveal some secrets, and when our bricklayer connects the HW to the computer, a transaction is initiated that transfers BTC from the device.