"You cannot prevent something like cryptocurrencies, they will be everywhere, and the world will have to reset its conditions to adapt to it, the governments of the world will have to adapt to it."
(John McAfee, founder of McAfee Antivirus)
With the end of 2021 approaching, the price of Bitcoin is approaching $50,000.
Certainly, this number seems imaginary compared to its beginnings, when its value ranged between several cents in the years 2009 and 2010, and then it was considered that it had made a big leap in the year 2011 when it reached a value of one dollar.
Now, 10 years later, cryptocurrency has become a reality recognized by governments, states, and central banks, and one of the largest areas of investment around the world.
However, one of the biggest problems of cryptocurrencies remains that they are not understood by large sectors of people, which has necessarily made them questionable. The thing that you do not understand, you will often be hostile to, or consider as a bubble on the way to disappearing quickly, especially if This thing was already surrounded by major question marks in terms of its origin story, the way it was mined and traded, and the value it offered.
In this report, we review the simplest and fastest way to learn anything in an entertaining way, which is watching movies.
Here we have 8 films that fully shed light on the world of cryptocurrencies in general, and Bitcoin in particular, in a way that combines excitement and education;
What makes it an excellent entry to know the basics of this world and to understand its most important principles.
Bitcoin exchange.. A look at the beginnings
We start the list with one of the most famous documentaries that shed light on the world of digital currencies in general, and Bitcoin in particular.
The movie "Banking Of Bitcoin", released in 2016, directed by Christopher Kanukshiari, and its duration is about an hour and a half.
The advantage of this film is that its makers did not focus only on the emergence and rise of Bitcoin, but rather worked on linking it to global financial variables that began from 2008 to the year of the film’s production, the year that witnessed the value of Bitcoin reaching the ceiling of 900 dollars, and this was a huge number at the time that aroused interest in The whole world is about the emergence of the star of digital currencies, which has become an indisputable reality.
The film, which gained great fame, especially after it was shown for a while on the global Netflix platform, tracks the stages of the rise of the Bitcoin currency, the basics of its industry and mining, its founders, and ways of using it, highlighting the advantages of the currency on the one hand, and highlighting its fraudulent and criminal aspects on the other.
In short, if you want to access a visual material that gives you an overview of the Bitcoin development journey from 2008 to 2016, this movie is one of the best references that will undoubtedly help you.
Crypto..the dark world of cryptocurrency
Here we are talking about the Thriller Movie in every sense of the word.
The movie "Crypto" was released in 2019, and it is considered one of the most dramatic films whose plot is mainly related to the world of digital currencies, which has made its popularity steadily increasing since its release, with the increase in global interest in those currencies.
The film is directed by John Stalberg, and stars a group of actors, most notably Bo Knapp, Alexis Bledel and Luke Hemsworth, with an honorary presence for the veteran actor Kurt Russell.
The film tells the story of Martin Doran, an analyst in a major famous bank, whose primary role he was paid is to detect and prevent money laundering.
After being removed from his bank and transferred to another, the young man finds himself facing major financial scams worth millions of dollars orchestrated by Russian criminal gangs using cryptocurrency mining operations.
The film's main plot revolves entirely around the link between cryptocurrency mining and its widespread use in money laundering operations within banks, within an exciting police framework.
Although it did not receive a broadly positive critical review, the movie Crypto was considered one of the few dramatic films that sounded the alarm about the dark sides of the cryptocurrency world.
Cryptopia..the future of cryptocurrency
A very famous documentary, released in 2020, is considered one of the best documentaries that highlight digital currencies and their mining process, and anticipate their future scenarios.
The film is titled "Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Future of the Internet" and takes a deep look at blockchain technologies and how cryptocurrency is mined.
The film is made by Torsten Hoffman, who is known for producing a number of similar documentary projects in the past years, and although it focuses entirely on the world of cryptocurrency, its mining methods, and perceptions of its future as a financial and investment tool, it also contains information, data, numbers and ideas that can be used and benefited. Including in all kinds of other investments.
Unlike other films on this list that deal with talking about bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining in all its light and dark aspects together, you will notice that the movie “Cryptopia” tends to show the revolutionary side in the world of bitcoin, and shows a clear enthusiasm in presenting cryptocurrencies as a focus of many opportunities that the world will witness in the years coming.
It can be considered - then - to shed light on the positive and bright side of this world.
The rise and rise of Bitcoin..there is no room for decline
Everything in life goes up and down, except for bitcoin from the point of view of the makers of this movie, it goes up and it will continue to go up.
Here we are talking about one of the most exciting films about the world of Bitcoin, “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” released in 2014 at a time when the cryptocurrency was still relatively new and not widely spread, however, As you can see from the title of the movie, it is quite clear that the makers saw the success of Bitcoin as inevitable and indisputable.
The film revolves around the veteran 30-year-old computer programmer, "Daniel Murs," who accompanies us for an hour and a half to understand all the important details about Bitcoin and its development through his multiple interviews with programmers and developers obsessed with digital currency mining, who believed that they were about to make a huge revolution in the future of money, business and investment.
Certainly, time has proven the sincerity of their obsession.
Since discovering Bitcoin in 2011 - which was of very modest value at the time - Daniel decided to make a documentary for himself as he monitors the growth of Bitcoin through his journey around the world and his interviews with cryptocurrency geeks and early adopters of Blockchain technology;
What makes the documentary is a combination of an expedition and a focused educational course as well.
The film was nominated for the Best International Documentary Award at the 2014 Zurich Film Festival.
Bitcoin .. the end of the money we know
A 2015 Australian independent documentary film, written and directed by Torsten Hoffman, producer of the aforementioned "Cryptopia". This documentary is distinguished from many of the films mentioned in this list in that it integrates its analytical view of Bitcoin within a rapid roaming of the history of money, the principle of the emergence of coins and paper primarily, and the development of the concept of money in human societies since the ancient world until our modern world, and then it identifies with the emergence of digital currencies as The natural evolution that replaces traditional money.
The film came with a short and direct title as if it acknowledges an indisputable fact, "Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It", highlighting the patterns of technical innovations surrounding the emergence of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies, and providing answers It is clear and direct about the inevitability of Bitcoin replacing cash, while acknowledging the existence of dark sides of this currency, including its widespread exploitation in money laundering operations.
Of course, the film answers the most prominent question that was circulating at the time of its production, whether Bitcoin and digital currencies were just a bubble or an inescapable reality and that it represented the future of money.
Now everyone knows that Bitcoin has passed the stage of questioning whether it is a bubble or not, and has become a reality recognized by countries, governments and peoples, and has trading platforms licensed by central banks.
The film won three international awards in 2015, the Best International Documentary Award at the Amsterdam Film Festival, in addition to two awards at the Las Vegas Festival in the same year.
Life on Bitcoin
If all the previous films talk about the cryptocurrency industry, how to mine it, its future, speculation in its prices, and the problems related to it, all of these things do not answer the most important question that comes to the mind of the average person: Can I buy a burger, shop in a mall, travel, or book a hotel? With Bitcoin?
Can I hail a taxi and then pay the driver their fare in cryptocurrency?
In 2014, the documentary “Life on Bitcoin” appeared, starring a married couple who had only been married for two weeks and decided to travel for a long vacation in an American city, relying entirely on digital currencies in all their daily dealings. .
The couple refrained from taking cash or using credit cards to buy anything, and relied entirely on Bitcoin.
This was in 2014, it is true that the Bitcoin currency was achieving good growth, but it - definitely - was not in the current spread.
So, in the film we see a 100-day social experiment, filled with the couple trying to get stores to accept digital currency, sometimes having to go very far just to find a store, restaurant or place that accepts Bitcoin to buy basic necessities.
Certainly the situation is completely different now, and if the couple Austin and Becky reproduce the same movie in 2022, the last conceivable scene is to pay the digital currency that everyone seeks to own, especially in the United States, and face rejection!
I'm Satoshi.. who started all this?
Satoshi Nakamoto, it sounds like a purely Japanese name to someone, but it's actually a pseudonym that has nothing to do with any real person.
This name became widely used among the anonymous people who developed the initial versions of Bitcoin and created its original reference software.
The name Satoshi first appeared in a research paper in 2008, and then disappeared by 2010, and this as yet unknown Satoshi Nakamoto is believed to own close to a million bitcoins, which is a colossal fortune by today's standards.
With the absence of this person, his identity became questionable, with questions about whether this name symbolizes a male or a female, or belongs to several people or one person. This absence caused many to come out to the media saying they were Satoshi, including a Japanese man and an Australian technical expert. Some journalists accused businessman Elon Musk of being Satoshi, but Musk denied this completely in 2017, and the matter turned into a public joke when former US President Trump denied that he was Satoshi Nakamoto in one of his sarcastic tweets.
The documentary "I'm Satoshi), which was produced in 2014, attempts to shed light on the identity of the person or people who began launching this currency, and how it developed from nothing to exceed a thousand dollars in 2014, reaching the edge of fifty. A thousand dollars at the end of 2021. During a full hour, which is the duration of the film, the documentary sheds light on some basic information about Satoshi and the beginning of Bitcoin, and holds a lot of interviews with the early developers of the currency, trying to get a sense of the identity of this person.
Magical Money: The Bitcoin Revolution
When the documentary “Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution” was released in 2017, it proceeded from the seemingly surprising fact that - for the first time in human history - money was no longer under the control of central banks, governments and states, but rather under Direct people control. The rules of the game have completely changed, and the minting of currency, determining its price, value, and ways of sending and receiving it is no longer a governmental matter, but has become a matter circulating in the hands of people, based on digital mining standards that are completely different from the mining of natural resources.
The film has the same rhythm as most of the films on this list, a documentary based on interviewing experts, currency developers, analysts and investors in the stock markets, and asking them the questions you want to know the answers to: What is cryptocurrency? And where did it come from? How does it work? And what is its future? Is it a reality or just a digital bubble that will disappear one day? The film also highlights some of the details of the mysterious emergence of the Bitcoin currency, then focuses on the future of the currency, showing its positive aspects, and what it can change in the near and far future.
In the end, cryptocurrency, like anything else, has its advantages and disadvantages.
It is true that it has passed the stage of the bubble, or at least it is no longer a cause for the suspicion of markets and governments as it was in the early years of its rise, but dealing with it must be within the framework of awareness of its advantages and disadvantages at the same time, which was expressed by the late American businessman and programmer Dan Kaminsky, saying: : "Bitcoin has its problems, of course, but who said it's trying to be perfect?!"
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The films mentioned in the list are within the author's personal views, and all information in the report is derived from the descriptions of the films themselves.