No one needs to be convinced about the fact that digital assets were heard in almost every corner of the world. The facts speak for themselves. But do you know that digital assets are increasingly becoming the subject of filmmakers and more and more documents are being created? We present you a number of film positions dedicated to cryptocurrencies, which are worth watching for both entertainment and educational purposes. Movies about cryptocurrencies are both documents and stories with the story. On our editorial list you will even find episodes of iconic series.
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin (2014)
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin It is an American document from 2014. Nicholas Mros is responsible for his directing. It contains numerous statements of people and high -level employees from companies that played an important role in the history of popularizing the first cryptocurrency. The documentary premiered at the New York Film Festival on April 23, 2014. Moreover, this item received the nomination in the category The best international documentary at the festival in Zurich in 2014.
Although the film will soon be 9 years old, and at that time the digital asset sector has changed dramatically, many things contained in it are still valid. What’s more, it introduces us to the image of what the first years of the Bitcoin market and other cryptocurrencies looked like.
Netflix explated: Cryptocurrency (2018)
The netflix document is intended for any person who wants to take a bit of the topic of digital coins, but does not have much time. Although the film lasts only 14 minutes, its creators managed to include the most important explanations regarding the concept of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, which is under their basis. This is definitely a nice option for the first time if someone has not had contact with this world at all.
Crypto (2019)
Crypto This is a full -length film on the border of the Thriller/Criminal species. Interestingly, there are certainly known to fans of cinema, such actors as Kurt Russell, Beau Knapp and Alexis Bledel. The plot focuses on the history of a young banker from Wall Street, which is involved in the fraud network and money laundering. Of course, cryptocurrencies are a key tool in the whole procedure.
Trust no one: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022)
Last year’s criminal document created for Netflix, Trust no one: The Hunt for the Crypto King (in English translation: Don’t trust anyone: hunting for the king of cryptocurrencies), talks about the mysterious death of Gerald Cotten. This man was the founder of the Canadian Quadrigacx cryptocurrency exchange. He died in 2018 in strange circumstances. After his death, it was revealed that investors’ money was irreversibly blocked on Quadrigacx, because only Cotten had access to cold wallets.
Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the Future of the Internet (2020)
As the fifth, we present a document from which we receive a very detailed description of the genesis of Bitcoin, but also the entire cryptocurrency sector. The document conducts us all the way the evolution of this value and also stimulates reflection on the future of the Internet and finances.
Crypto
This is Polish production. It is worth noting that its premiere in Warsaw has become a special legend: it appeared on it, among others Minister of Digitization Anna Streżyńska and it was on him that the decision to create the Blockchain Chamber and new technologies, which still works today. On the screen we see, for example, Sylwester Suszka, prof. Krzysztof Piech, Lech Wilczyński and other people who co -created the Bitcoin market in the first years of its existence.
Revised
This is a director’s debut. We visit Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. Production shows various personal stories, cultures and economic analyzes. We get to know the fate of people whose only “wine” is that they were born in the regions of the world, where banks have not arrived, thanks to which we get to know various grassroots pseudo -balance practices, such as micro -leggings, social banking and local loan networks. All this is complemented by cryptocurrencies. The whole allows you to understand why the world blockchain.
Electronic money: Bitcoin secret
This is a HBO document, which was once loud. Reason? The station promoted him in a rather sensational way: she announced that it would reveal who Satoshi Nakamoto is. In its version it is … Peter Todd from Bitcoin Core. The most interested quickly denied this revelation, but production is worth giving a chance, because it shows how the mainstream looks at Bitcoin.
Crypto Boy
We reach for another feature film. The main character Crypto Boy There is a young supplier of Mexican food, Amir (played by Shahine El-Hamus). He is conflicted with his father and dreams of a better life. Suddenly there is a breakthrough: a young and charismatic entrepreneur from the criteriate industry stands in his way. Amir starts working on a start-up related to Bitcoin. It quickly turns out that professional success can give bitter fruits.
Cryptoper
Ray Trapani wanted to become a criminal from an early age. Yes, not everyone dreams of a career in the police, fire brigade or tiktoku. When in 2017, when the whole world was overwhelmed by the Bitcoins fever, he decided to realize his plans. When his friend presented him with the idea of creating a debit card to support cryptocurrencies, he did not hesitate! The problem is that he deceived a large part of the market – thanks to false profiles on LinkedIn and paid for celebrity recommendations, he managed to quickly enrich. His tech centers soon raised millions of dollars a day. Only that everything was Scam.
In this document, we follow the creators with this fascinating, but also a terrifying story.
Big Bitcoin explosion
Everyone who remembers the beginnings of Bitcoin knows Mt. GOX. Anyway, this fallen stock exchange to this day in a sense affects the industry. Its founder, Mark Karpales, is one of the most controversial characters on the market.
Big Bitcoin explosion This is a story about how a young businessman built the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, and then everything … broke. If it wasn’t for that, he could be someone like the creators of Binance or Ethereum today.
Bad management of exchanges led to its fall at the beginning of 2014 – previously criminals stole from its wallets huge amounts of BTC, which only now – after more than a decade – are returned to the company’s creditors.
Perfect wife (season 3, episode 13)
The subject of cryptocurrencies also appears in series, including one of the episodes The perfect wife. It is a production that tells the fate of the main heroine, Alicia Florrick, who is a lawyer in Chicago.
Episode entitled Bitcoin for Dummies He talks about a man who is fighting for Bitcoin. Alicia must understand the complexity of digital resources. The series showed Bitcoin and digital currencies in a good light.
South Park (Special Episode Post Covid: The Return of Covid)
South Park could not silence such a phenomenon as cryptocurrencies. In a special episode Post Covid: The Return of Covid One of the heroes of the series, Leopold “Butters” Stotch – also known as “Victor Chaos” – was shown – already as an adult man (everything happens mainly in the future) locked in a special prison for the mentally ill. It turns out that, as a rule, butters quite brilliant, however, in the past he had a dark Super -Moc – it is about the ability to persuade investors to invest all their money in NFT. Suddenly he manages to make the whole world go crazy about buying NFT. By the way, probably many investors from 2021 dream of re -fashion to invest in such tokens.
He has escaped once. In just a few hours he managed to get thousands of people to invest in NFT, just as he almost did it with you. (…) 30 seconds in this room and you would start considering NFT as a profitable investment
– We hear one of the cartoon heroes to be warned by a guard who is responsible for holding Butters in his cell.
Butters has no mercy later: he urges the investment and guards, and almost always falling into Randy Mars, and even old people from home for seniors. This is not an episode for people with weak nerves!
The Simpsons (episodes of Bart’s new friend and a terrible tree house XXXIV)
As you know, there is only one series that can predict the future. This Simpsons. Hence, in one of the episodes there is a thread of the payment of the future – Blockchain Lisa Simpson learns the principles of this new technology and cryptocurrencies. Her video helps her, whose hero is Jim Parsons Z Great pickup theory.
However, this is not the end. In one of the episodes of the series with a yellow cartoon family, the NFT thread also appears. Bart accidentally – and more precisely: by his father’s clumsiness – becomes a NFT token and is saved on blockchain. Homer quickly discovers that his son-NFT value increases to USD 1.5 million. Reason? “Father of the Year” StoKenized Barta Bart when he had lowered pants and proudly presents his buttocks. It is hard to resist investment on something like that.
Homer boasts his wife that he sticenized Bart, and – having definitely more parent’s features – Marge tries to help his son imprisoned in blockchain. Kylie Jenner helps her with this. Transferring to NFT, Marge sets off into the digital world, and Jenner gets the key to bringing Bart from digital reality. The Marge mission is therefore a success. At the end, Homer decides to sticenize himself. It’s just that it does it when the fashion for NFT ends.
Virtual Empire
This is a thriller from 2021, which tells about the fate of Ross Ulbricht, the famous creator of Silk Road, a Darkweb platform, where until spring 2013 you could buy … almost everything for BTC. At least what was illegal: mainly drugs that were prescription or drugs.
Ross Ulbricht ran the platform under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts”. He finally went to prison for many years. Although the court sentenced him to life imprisonment, at the beginning of 2024 Donald Trump pardoned him and allowed him to be released. Free Ross members opted for release. Maybe it is worth thinking about the sequel to describe the film described here?
