{"id":65932,"date":"2022-08-17T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65932"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:42:31","slug":"director-of-the-bitcoin-bet-to-film-about-satoshi-nakamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/director-of-the-bitcoin-bet-to-film-about-satoshi-nakamoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of &#8216;The Bitcoin Bet&#8217; to film about Satoshi Nakamoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Christopher Cannucciari and White Paper Films announced the start of work on the documentary &#8220;I Am Not Satoshi.&#8221; Funds for the film will be raised via the Republic platform built on Avalanche, Decrypt reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Experts and witnesses will help us understand the events preceding Satoshi&#8217;s disappearance and the aftermath. Our aim is to tell this story before it becomes a myth,&#8221; said the director.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He intends to explore theories about the identity of the creator of the first cryptocurrency. The film will also explain why some members of the community believe that the mystery of <span data-descr=\"US National Security Agency\" class=\"old_tooltip\">AN\u0411<\/span> Satoshi Nakamoto should remain unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers intend to raise funding by selling tokens on Republic as part of Film Finance Offering \u2014 a concept developed by Ava Labs. Representatives of the latter expect that in the future other filmmakers will be able to use the platform to finance their works.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/m1lymSGCBjGODMgR913q3Akk3gf7W7drXjo3WNoDtBrUAFLvhtlbPLXdpKS0sTGemsqkUk6XHgJyB_YTy_IUrOEObcWiuneztsp_IwsUGnoryS-vIj2vnw5JJdk1fBwreaLq3WQeSvZGfKOa2JZ6BGg\" alt=\"Director of 'The Bitcoin Bet' to film about Satoshi Nakamoto\"\/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitepaperfilm.com\/satoshi\">White Paper Films<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Christopher Cannucciari \u2014 the director of the documentary &#8220;The Bitcoin Bet&#8221; (2016). He chronicles the rise of digital gold and the enthusiasts behind the early development of the network.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, British film company Substantial Films announced work on the black comedy &#8220;Decrypted.&#8221; The plot centers on a team from the <span data-descr=\"US National Security Agency\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NSA<\/span>, which abducts Nakamoto and forces him to reveal information needed for the government to destroy cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2021, a crowdfunding campaign for the documentary about <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/who-is-vitalik-buterin\">Vitalik Buterin<\/a> raised <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/documentary-filmmakers-behind-vitalik-buterin-raise-1-9-million\">$1.9 million<\/a> in three days on the Mirror platform.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2022 it emerged that Scott Free Productions, associated with director Ridley Scott, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hollywood-to-adapt-book-on-ethereum-and-vitalik-buterin\">is adapting the book<\/a> by journalist Camilla Russo. It recounts how Ethereum co-founder rallied a group of developers around the idea of creating a &#8220;world computer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Spike Lee has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/spike-lee-sees-nfts-as-a-boon-for-the-film-industry\">NFT can be used to finance films<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Christopher Cannucciari and White Paper Films announced the start of work on the documentary &#8216;I Am Not Satoshi.&#8217; Funds for the film will be raised via the Republic platform built on Avalanche, Decrypt reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1331,111],"class_list":["post-65932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-culture-and-art","tag-satoshi-nakamoto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"56","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65934,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65932\/revisions\/65934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}