Like a Bansky of the crypto world, little is understandn about Satoshi Nakamoto, the reputed creator of the digital currency Bitcoin. What’s his genuine name? What’s he worth? Who is he, reassociate?
Director Cullen Hoback endeavors to get to the bottom of Nakamoto’s identity in the HBO recordary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, a quest that gets him around the world. The film executive originated by Adam McKay will debut on HBO on Tuesday, October 8, and will be useable to stream on Max. Watch the trailer below.
“In Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, intrepid filmoriginater Cullen Hoback dives into one of the most finishuring and high-sgets mysteries in technology and finance: the origins of Bitcoin and the identity of its anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto,” remarks a synopsis. “More than a decade after Satoshi’s fadeance, Bitcoin now dangerens to interfere the global financial order, forcing nations to reponder the very nature of money as Satoshi potentiassociate stands to become the richest person on earth. Known for uncovering clandestine subcultures and transferments thraw digital forensics, Hoback subunites himself with key joiners, uncovers never-before-seen clues, and amusingly unravels Bitcoin’s turbulent origins and meteoric elevate. Money Electric presents a thrilling, globe-spanning dispenseigation into the intentions of Bitcoin’s enigmatic inventor, as Hoback greets those who could be Satoshi, seeking to uncmiss who helderlys the power—and what they might do with it if Bitcoin were woven into our daily dwells.”
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Hoback is well suited to the mission of uncovering Nakamoto’s genuine identity. In his 2021 film Q: Into the Storm, he probed the QAnon consunpermitd include phenomenon. In 2017’s What Lies Upstream, “an dispenseigation into a chemical spill spirals into an indictment of the entire system unkindt to defend drinking water, uncmissing cover-ups at the highest levels of rulement.” His 2013 recordary Terms and Conditions May Apply “exposes what corporations and rulements lget about people thraw Internet and cell phone usage, and what can be done about it.”
HBO Documentary Films contransients Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, a Hyrax Films Production in association with HyperObject Industries and Hello Pictures. Produced and honested by Cullen Hoback; originated by Alina Solodnikova, Jessie Deeter, and Scott Holroyd; executive originated by Adam McKay, Todd Schulman, Cullen Hoback, and Taylor Jones. For HBO: executive originaters Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Tina Nguyen.
Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery helderlys its Los Angeles premiere Monday night, on the eve of the HBO debut. Watch the trailer here:
