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A new bitcoin documentary called "Banking on bitcoin" came out a few days ago and I thought I should share it with you guys , I just started to watch it and here is the link : https://solarmovie.sc/movie/banking-on-bitcoin-18789/567376-8/watching.html
Leave your thoughts and your feedback once you see it , the score is 6.8/10 on imdb but I guess It worth watching.

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im sure the guys that made it get something when you buy the video via amazon
as suggested on IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5033790/

you can try contacting the producer to ask them what platform ensures they get paid
http://www.cannucciari.com/contact/

Will watch the documentary a little later, thanks for the link.
I hope it's better than the rise of Bitcoin.

I do hope it will also be featured in you tube and will shared on facebook so that bitcoin awareness will spread across the globe. Constant advertisement and promotion will have a positive effect on bitcoin. In our area I was the only bitcoin user but later with the on-going advertisement and promotion of bitcoin on the social media people who are earning with bitcoin increases.

If the producers don't put it on YouTube then I am sure that somebody will have it uploaded on there.

Since some people requested to a way to support the documentary and you brought this thread up, I thought I should let you guys know that this documentary is available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/banking-on-bitcoin/id1176392019

I have yet to see one documentary that do not mention Silkroad or MtGox and it is pretty sad that so much focus is given to the "dark side" of

Bitcoin's history and not the good things that are being done with it. The IMDb rating of 6.7/10 will help to attract some attention to it, so I hope

some people would take the time to watch it.  ;) ..... I hope it is as good as " Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It "  ;D

Hopefully this documentary will have more information on Bitcoin that the other ones that are out there. Most of the documentaries on Bitcoin state the same things over and over again. I would like to learn something new with Bitcoin Documentaries and see how different people integrate the technology onto their electronic items and such.
I am pretty sure that these Bitcoin documentaries aren't targeted to only the new people in Bitcoin.
Thanks for the video link nonetheless.

Edit: Just watched the movie, I either watched this before or there's a bunch of recycled clips loaded into that movie.

Here's another bitcoin documentary entitled: "The Blockchain and Us" released recently in 2017 on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iF73cybTBs

I have not watched it, yet.

Video lecture series on bitcoin like this one from khan academy, have been better than the bitcoin documentaries I've seen:

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-what-is-it

Here it is on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PVzOVMCASo)

Great documentary overall and thanks for recommending it!  When I was watching it I jotted down a couple notes during some moments I found interesting (sorry if some of my notes seem kinda scramble-brained; it's late here):

~11:00:  Seemed like I have had similar conversation with my family members about Bitcoin.  When people of older generations get in conversations with you about Bitcoin, they seem very curious at first, but at the very first hint of trying to understand something that they can't wrap their minds around at first, they seem to disregard it right from the get go.

~12:00: Describes people as anonymous when they aren't. Wallets are tied to banks which makes them tied to their identify.  Seems to be a common misconception in this documentary

~16:30: There is a common theme of anger to people who are being told of Bitcoin.  What people don't understand angers them.  This reminds me of other similar conversations I've had with friends and family, they only trust what they already know.

~21:00: Talks about bringing Bitcoin to undeveloped nations, how could that be when they have no electricity, computers, etc.?  Can't have nodes on phones and be able to mine. ... This really got my attention.  I feel that it is a corner stone of one of the key issues of Bitcoin with trying to get further away from centralization. The importance of people in undeveloped nations being able to access the main network of Bitcoin is paramount in "helping them" and for Bitcoin to "save the world".  If we don't try to solve the issues of pruning and finding ways for people to operate nodes on something as mobile as a phone or tablet, I don't think we will be "helping" these people at all.  We (meaning the people in developed/rich nations) will essentially become the banks; essentially forcing these people to trust third parties (us) to operate nodes through and mine transactions for them... not to mention how hard it will be for these people to have phones in the first place in the really rural areas.  This is already troubling now and you can see how peoples privacy are being left by the way side to connect to remote nodes and trusting third party wallet clients even now in our developed nation state.

~22:00 - High fees compared to western union ... The more and more we let the block issues continue, the more and more we see people wanting to transact Bitcoin, the more and more we will see fees go up and will cross out the Pro check mark of "cheap international payment system" off our Pro and Con list compared to Western Union.

~32:00 - Talks about Tor and it's importance to Bitcoin ... Is the new "Tor" i2p/Kovri?  

~46:00 - Really really liked this comment basically describing the hypocrisy of banks, saying that Bitcoin is only used for drugs when someone can easily go to an ATM and withdraw cash to buy drugs.  I feel that this is largely misunderstood by the masses.

~48:00 - Didn't like how it seemed that the only way to be "legitimized" was to go through regulations.  In order for the Bitcoin ecosystem to thrive, there has got to be more emphasis on decentralized exchanges, markets, etc. (e.g. bitsquare)

~55:00 - Good thought about how people failed to learn about not throwing money at "trusted" third parties like in 2008 with banks... People, for some reason, feel more secure by having a company, bank, or whatever take their money to hold it for them; and the pain was felt by all who did that.

~1:11:00 - TIL Ben Lawsky was doing consulting now... idk how I missed that piece of news.  What a scumbag.

This is probably my favorite Bitcoin documentary so far.  I never have seen footage before of the hearing that would inevitably lead to what became the "Bitliscence".  Definitely would recommend anyone to watch it.

First off, well done with the notes and the summary of the documentary, I was in a hurry and only skipped to some of the points you pointed out and it highlighted some of the best parts. < When I got back from work, I watched the whole thing >

~1:11:00 - I have to agree, Ben Lawsky should go to court to explain how he misused his position to sabotage Bitcoin in New York and ultimately profited from the complex licensing procedure he introduced for BitLicense and then created a consulting firm to profit from that. Fk'n Scumbag !!!!

Documentary like these will give more awareness to people about bitcoins and everyone who will see these short documentary will get inspire and will maybe get into the bitcoin world.

 

I think it's great to watch to add insight into bitcoin .... thank you my master very impressed with what you share ...

"Banking on Bitcoin" is now available to stream on Netflix in the U.S., https://www.netflix.com/title/80154500

I started to watch this the other night on Netflix (just added!) but had to turn it off part way through unfortunately. Definitely am going to finish though. Great to see more and more mainstream exposure like this!

Just finished watching this documentary a few minutes ago. I'd give it a score of 7/10 (not really that much different from its IMDB rating). It touches on some of the early history of Bitcoin, the early players in the crypto-currency industry, the search for the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, etc. It's a good docu to watch if you want a simple 'backgrounder' on bitcoin's history and the controversies that surrounded it since its inception.

However, it fails to live up to its title (IMO)-- "Banking on Bitcoin" (or maybe the documentary's authors were just playing with words). With that title, and since the docu was created just recently, I was expecting a bit more exploration on how bitcoin has penetrated the mainstream and how it's affecting it, how it is changing the current practices in the trade of money/goods, and how the lives of the early adopters have been changed because of it (for better or worse).

It would've been more satisfying if it tackled those topics (for me at least), but alas, it didn't.

(Generally still a good watch though.)

Banking of Bitcoin is a good documentary. This was useful to understand the complete knowledge of introduction and latest technology in Netflix platform. Bitcoin is a independent platform. Many consumers are know about only updates of Bitcoin, History of Bitcoin and current market of Bitcoin. But this documentary is awareness of Bitcoin etc...