Bitcoin, the world’s first decentralized digital value, has become a phenomenon since its creation in 2008. Over the past years, he gained the attention of investors, traders and the general public. The oldest cryptocurrency that revolutionized the financial industry is also a source of inspiration for filmmakers. Here are the most interesting movies about Bitcoin.
The best movies about Bitcoin
In this article we will look at the seven best films focusing on Bitcoin. Regardless of whether you are an enthusiast of cryptocurrencies, a skeptic or simply curious about this new technology, these productions will provide you with valuable insights on the history of finance, which is happening before our eyes.
Sit comfortably, take popcorn and get ready to get to know the world of Bitcoin through the prism of cinema.
Documentaries
Bitcoiners
If you want to know the Bitcoin community from the inside, there will be no better opportunity! The film allows us to meet Blockchain fans who claim that this new technology and its fruits can even save the US. The film was made in the years 2021–2023, i.e. before winning in the election of Donald Trump.
In the cheerful one of Satoshim
This is a document that tries to answer a question that bothers almost every cryptocurrency fan – who is or was Satoshi Nakamoto. The creators studied various facts and myths for four years. They intertwine their narrative with interviews, which show various and often contradictory perspectives (this is a plus). Everything is decorated with evidence that shows who the creator of BTC could be.
Dirty Coin: The Controversy Behind Bitcoin Mining
A full -length document that analyzes the controversy about Bitcoin, i.e. its impact on the environment and how much its energy network consumes. It is also a fresh perspective for cryptocurrency, which does not answer the questions so much, but encourages reflection and self -drawing of conclusions.
My trust in you has been strained
Document about the beginnings of Bitcoin as a payment system. The film emphasizes that the cryptocurrency was created not as digital gold, but a tool for sellers that were to solve their problems and reduce the threats of the so -called trusted third parties.
Crypto
This is Polish production, which was once loud. His premiere in Warsaw has become a special legend. She 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 was to be made. 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.
Bitcoin revolution
This is a 80-minute document that was created for three years. We can learn the stories of as many as 40 people – Bitcoin pioneers and people who learned cryptocurrency only recently.
Revised
This is a director’s debut that takes us to 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 “wines” are that they were born in the regions of the world, where banks did not reach, thanks to which we learn various grassroots pseudo -beaten practices, such as micro lears, social banking and local loan networks. All this is complemented by cryptocurrencies. The whole allows you to understand why the world blockchain.
Bitcoin is the mycelium of money
This is an experimental short -term film, inspired by Brandon Qittem’s article, presents Bitcoin as “a decentralized superorganism of combined cells with common goals.” Combining AI visualizations, intriguing facts and … humor, he tries to be something like a para-document in the style we know from the BBC. In the background we hear the captivating voice of the teacher. It’s a funny and simply nice way to explain to someone what BTC is.
Satoshi: Bitcoin creator
This is not quite a documentary film, but an experimental short image created by AI, which is an attempt to enter the mind of Satoshi Nakamoto, showing his constant pursuit of innovation, the fight for financial freedom – his struggle to change status quo. The creator of the Arthur Machado project goes back to the financial crisis in Brazil in the 1990s and reaches the contemporary economic landscape of Europe.
This really addictive short film takes us on a journey of visionaries behind Bitcoin
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The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
‘The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin This is a production that was nominated in the category The best international documentary film at the Festival in Zurich in 2014. He talks about Bitcoin, but, as you can see, in a special way, since even film critics saw something more in it. This is an interesting material for beginners, but also fans of good documents.
Banking on Bitcoin
This is a document that is an introduction to the history of Bitcoin. Thanks to it, we will understand what the genesis of cryptocurrency is, why it was created and how it changes the world.
Bitcoin: outside the bubble
This is a document that tries to look at Bitcoin more broadly – to answer the question and his role in the global financial system. In addition, the creators ask a key question for many: whether cryptocurrency is part of a speculative bubble or something more.
The Gospel of Bitcoin
This is a document for the more initiated, because it concerns not Bitcoin as a payment network or investment, but tools to achieve freedom. The famous Evangelist Bitcoin Roger Ver appears in production, who tries to present the ideology that stands behind the cryptocurrency community.
Electronic money: Bitcoin secret
This is a HBO document that the station promoted in a rather sensational way: she announced that it would reveal who Satoshi Nakamoto is. It was supposed to be … 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.
The great reset and the creation of Bitcoin
The film explains in detail how Bitcoin works and its extraction. He also talks about existing scaling options, such as Lightning Network, which unlock the potential of the largest cryptocurrency in the field of growth and global adoption. Production also examines the current state of our economy and the influence that the new monetary system, such as Bitcoin, can have the world. As a viewer, you will be able to understand the current situation well. You will also be able to make thoughtful decisions regarding the future of the finance world in which you want to live.
Human B
There is a new technology on earth that is gaining more and more importance. Of course, we are talking about blockchain. Few are still aware of the size of the revolution. And this is just the beginning … Aaron Ruben’s film is an amazing journey deep into the cryptocurrency rabbit hole and a must on the list of Bitcoin movies.
Bitcoin is Generational Wealth
The cycles of the ups and downs of civilization and their means of payment are repeated in the written history known to us. We are at the time of the next crisis, but for the first time in the history of humanity there is something unprecedented – money that is indestructible. With the perspective of capital behavior, you can imagine new opportunities and realize their potential over many generations. Bitcoin can break down falling cycles and replace them with an eternal, productive room.
This machine greens
This machine greens This is a document that studies a complex and nuance relationship of Bitcoin with energy. Economists speaking in the film dispel many misunderstandings about Bitcoins extracting. As a viewer, you learn convincing arguments that Bitcoin has a positive impact on the environment.
Le mystere satoshi
A group of technology enthusiasts, Cypherpunks, is trying to create a code for an anonymous and autonomous electronic currency. However, all concepts fail, except for the project of a certain Satoshi Nakamoto, which publishes in the middle of another financial crisis … Bitcoin code. Who could the mysterious IT specialist be?
Bond to Unbind
Bond to Unbind This is an experimental document that examines the accounts of the American dollar with the El Salvador and the role that the debt denominated in it played in creating the world’s first bitcoins bonds in the world. The creators spent two weeks in El Salvador, documenting the local reality two months after making Bitcoin a legal means of payment. The film shows the faces that create a new generation of El Salvador. Social organizers, farmers, doctors, journalists, artists, politicians and lawyers talk about how recent economic changes are perceived.
And Sly, Roundabout Way
The film tells the story of the world’s first Bitcoin curriculum. Public School Ignacio Paczeco Castro in the suburbs of San Salvador decided to educate in this regard during the first year of receiving Bitcoin as a legal means of payment in Salvador.
Don’t trust anyone: hunting for the king of cryptocurrencies
Don’t trust anyone ... This is a document about the story we described in Bitcoin.pl a few years ago. Gerry Cotten, president of Quadrigacx, the largest Canadian stock exchange with Bitcoins, died suddenly in mysterious circumstances – during a trip to India. He officially died of acute intestinal failure. The problem is that he took to the grave the password for access to the private keys of the stock exchange – on the wallet there were funds worth USD 250 million.
The investor group decided that Cotten did not die at all, and his “death” has the features of … a scam. The businessman was supposed to escape their property. How was it really? The film tries to answer this question.
Feature films
The topic of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies also appears in feature productions.
Hodl
This is a short, independent comedy about Max Sullivana, who inherits the fortune in Bitcoins. However, it quickly faces the consequences of the careless use of the BTC wallet.
The film was shot for 86 cents. The creators had to forgive the purchase of an energy drink in Walmart. Pictures were created in 8 hours in 2020. This is not a budget Matrixbut finally the effect counts. And this one is at least interesting.
Bitcoin Hotel
This is a Spanish comedy about four friends, property in Bitcoins and one laptop.
The perverse plot combines a comedy with bold topics – relationships, true values and criticism of wealth
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Production, like many others in this list, could be seen at Bitcoin FilmFest.
Deciphered
Earlier, we mentioned the production of HBO, which was to expose the creator of Bitcoin. Completely unnecessarily, because earlier it was the creators of this satirical film, which shows the fate of the secret government band, which tries to force Satoshi Nakamoto to reveal his secrets to him. What effect does this? He can certainly guarantee entertainment to fans of specific humor.
Bitcoin robbery
This is a Vietnamese film full of humor. Plot? A group of criminals wants to capture a cybercriminket dealing with Bitcoin. However, this is mainly an excuse to guarantee quite loose entertainment. Some say it’s a variation on the iconic Ocean’s 11but in the world of cryptocurrencies.
Crypto. Fear is the most difficult currency
Cryptocurrencies in the plot of a dark crime story? Why not!
Martin “Marty” Duran works as an analyst for preventing money laundering at the Omnicorp Bank headquarters in Manhattan. Suddenly, however, he discovers that a new customer, a large corporation, breaks the law. So he leads to a break of the contract, and in response he is … degraded and sent to a branch of the bank in his hometown. There he comes across another criminal case – a cryptocurrency plot on a global scale.
Crypto Boy
The main character Crypto Boy There is a young supplier of Mexican food, Amir (played by Shahine El-Hamus), who dreams of a better future. His difficult professional situation is not improved by the difficult relationship with his father, the owner of the restaurant in which he works. Suddenly, however, a young and charismatic entrepreneur from the criterian industry stands on his way. Amir starts working on a start-up related to Bitcoin. It quickly turns out that professional success can give bitter fruits.
