Topic: Could we crowdfund a movie about Satoshi Nakamoto? - page 4. (Read 734 times)

It'd be closer to fiction in that case, and honestly, I'd rather watch a well-written fiction about his life rather than a forced story made from the info publicly available on the net(whether its true or not idrk though).  Heck, the story could even progress with Satoshi just being a blank person that speaks in the background without being revealed. Though in that case, it'd be closer to a story of how Bitcoin was developed instead of a movie about him, which imo is the only movie possible since again, we don't really know much about the person themselves.

That's right, making a film about someone you don't know about will only create a false story...
making a film about Finney or a veteran member who founded this forum for the first time will be much better and will definitely get a good rating.

Nah, this won't be a effected marketing since nobody knew Satoshi. Everything will be base on fiction, and we all know that Hollywoood doesn't give justice portraying real life personality because they are going to add a lot of things which didn't happen.

You can't compare it to Steve Jobs biopic obviously, Satoshi is unknown.

Yes franky1, it would have to start with the cypherpunks and their different efforts
to create a form of digital currency.

It of course would have to be massively dramatised, like a drama thriller.

! The cypherpunks, Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, Gavin Andeason and others working on various projects.

! Government agencies investigating their efforts

! The cypherpunks receiving a random email with the Bitcoin Whitepaper

! The cypherpunks pouring over it and discussing it, then them replying to the email

! at this point Satoshi appears on the screen, this shadowy person, we cannot make out
it is a he or a she (for the screen, it wont be a they)

! the government agencies are getting closer and switch their attention to Satoshi

! more interaction between Satoshi and others and how they along with the law are trying
to find out who Satoshi is, while helping with Bitcoin

! Government agencies getting closer, it looks like they are about to knock on Satoshi's door,
but then Satoshi is not there...

I wonder how the movie would be since we know very little about the creator and what kind of movie it would be.
When I read the title I just laugh and imagine the whole movie would revolve around a dark room and a PC with a person who we wouldn't see the face be sitting in front of the pc and typing codes or emails.

Crowdfunding has its limit and given your cast, director, writer and music score, I don't think that 12 million is going to be enough, not to mention that how can you make a movie about satoshi when no one knows a thing about satoshi, what do you want them to do? Make a fake back story which is likely to happen since Hollywood can do this kind of thing for dramatization purposes but that would mean that they wouldn't be faithful to the original but what can they do when they are in a paradox. I would say that we can crowdfund but the problem is will people are going to jump in the crowdfund mania?

So you wanna start a crowdfunding campaign and gather a few million dollars,in order to hire Steven Spielberg/Danny Boyle,William Defoe,Keanu Reeves and Hans Zimmer? Yeah,this is definitely going to work.
Any idea about the plot?Is this going to be the story about the most anonymous man in the world,who sits in some secret place and creates the Bitcoin code on his computer,while nobody knows nothing about him?Computer programming is so damn interesting,the viewers will be excited for sure.

a movie about satoshi should not involve Dave Kleiman..

DK and CSW had nothing to do with bitcoin during satoshi era

if you want a movie about DK and CSW.. then you should put it into the fiction category

if you still believe CSW/DK had something to do with satoshi. then you are definitely not the right person/expert on what the movie should contain/be about


now go do your research and realise CSW and DK only got involved in 2013 when CSW made a scam about owning lots of bitcoin.. a scam created by grabbing public addresses and pretending that public addresses is proof of ownership

CSW/DK had no involvement in 2008-2011
go research

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as for a true satoshi plot
have it as a over-the-shoulder(no face) view of a guy piecing together different cypherpunk idea's and then releasing his masterpiece.
maybe the scene is him doodling on a whiteboard piecing it together (beautiful mind style)
skip to the rease and then the week later where the first transaction is made. have 2 characters getting excited that the idea actually works.
move forward to the lazlo pizza
move forward to alpaca socks
maybe feature it as a farmer that is struggling to sell his alpaca socks so comes across bitcoin and implements it. and suddenly his business gets busier
then bitcoin cupcakes.
then wallstreet
and so on

..
ofcourse stretching it out for 90 minutes would mean many social scenes explaining how different events changed things for people in a dramatic way.
so it can play out how it follows the bitcoin alpaca guy over time. evolving the storyline. could involve hal finneys slow progression of his ALS

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but anyway the topic creator doesnt appear to know much about satoshi era facts. so i would not deem him worthy of being a project manager about satoshi era

If a movie is ever made I really think it should be about the early days of the history of bitcoin, for example it should include all of the people and the developments that led to the creation of bitcoin in the first place, then we will see all the people that collaborated with satoshi back in the day in order to improve bitcoin after its creation and obviously some part of the movie could be about the mystery of satoshi and may be even include some of the candidates for that name.

However I think it is a better idea to let traditional studios to make the movie instead of trying to raise the money for it, otherwise it is entirely possible that this could lead to many scams.

It's funny sometimes when I see what you guys consider cryptocurrency realm to be, a place to raise fund to make a movie about someone (Satoshi Nakamoto) that value his privacy and no one know the genuine story about his biography.
Wait are you trying to spread false information about him?
This is another scam strategy isn't it?

If you can make it, then crowdfunding for a movie is good. As most users mentioned, it is not a fair thing to produce/direct a movie about a person whose identity isn't known. Without perfect information about a person, taking a movie about him will surely cause some form of mistake and the same might bring negative impression over him.

At the moment Elon Musk is creating more and more positive support for the growth of cryptomarket. Maybe you can do a research and make a movie about him.

Yes.

Nobody's stopping you. Just start your crowfund, open a thread here (and maybe in reddit) and see how it goes. Reddit is a better place if you want to get more attention though. You might wanna ask the same question there too.

However, I dunno If bitcoin really needs a movie... hiring actors and stuff will be expensive too.

That bunch of emails and bitcoin talk posts is enough material for the movie... It could be a nice suspense movie where at the end just make the doubt bigger about who really is satoshi.

The hard part is to get all the information and put it together in a 2h movie. I would love to watch something like that.

Even the cypherpunk movement could be part of that movie, just think about it.

Of course Satoshi Nakamoto may be hard to show in the film because of the lack of information, but it may be a good idea to show even those that we have nowadays in different variants and left viewer with the unfinished final scene or with a mystery ending. May be someday someone will fulfil this idea you wrote about even despite nowadays it seems to be strange.

Yes it would not be the actual Satoshi -is there ever anyone by that as a real name- I think in every Bitcoin-er's head we all have this view of the whole thing, so if there is to be a movie it's shouldn't be about satoshi but rather about bitcoin, and satoshi won't be centered in the movie, so the movie can have an originality to core bitcoin lovers, there is going to be emphasis about an anonymous creator but that would just be it, I think a good production Company can see the big box office in this if it's done right, there is no point to crowd funding it.

It would be a fiction movie then, because we can only speculate about Satoshi and his daily routine developing bitcoin until his disappearence. Even the reason behind his disappearence is pure speculation.
For entertainment purposes it may be a good idea if well directed and played, but for history it wouldn't have any value.

But don't worry, sooner or later someone will come with a project like this asking for investments and promising returns later, from the movie's revenue.

I would be more interested in a documentary instead of a movie but not for the purpose of marketing.

Majority of the current breed of investors and the future buyers or users probably do not care who invented Bitcoin. Maybe they are just buying because Elon is into it. I'm sure there are also people who are interested to know his story but to use it as a marketing stunt would be a failure.

How can you make a movie about someone who nobody knows anything about?
All we have about are a bunch of emails,  bitcointalk posts  and so on.

Nobody know if he was an individual or a group of people.

I guess a movie could be about hal Finney or someone else who is known, and who interacted with him online.

Or a very talented writer could make something entirelydifferent

I think we should take bitcoin/crypto marketing to the next level and motivate all bitcoin and crypto friends to crowdfund a movie about Satoshi Nakamoto. For example, the movie biography about Steve Jobs cost about 12 million USD. So I think it's even affordable...

As main protagonists I would suggest Dave Kleiman (scott patterson) and Hal Finney (Willem Dafoe/ Sean Maguire), and a third person/satoshi (who is just unknown and whose identity is not clarified;Keanu Reeves).

Director: Danny Boyle or Steven Spielberg.
Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin
Music: Hans Zimmer.

We could do this as huge bitcoin community project and if every bitcoin/crypto friend contribute even a small amount, we would have the money tomorrow.

It would be even better if a crypto celebrity would start the call to increase the range!!