Crypto film brings Bitcoin to Hollywood

[AXELNetwork]

Here's a review of the new film "Crypto" that stars Kurt Russell and Luke Hemsworth and is about Bitcoin. A big Hollywood film with big-name stars is a pretty big step in getting Bitcoin recognized globally and making it more legitimate in the eyes of the general public:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8w2EXTKQzA&feature=youtu.be

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[Bitinity]

Any info when the film will be released officially and will it be available world wide? The trailer looks so attractive, I hope it will be released soon so it can be the first Bitcoin Film and hopefully it will bring good effects to bitcoin in general. More adoption, more demands, and obviously price boost.

[n0ne]

Any info when the film will be released officially and will it be available world wide? The trailer looks so attractive, I hope it will be released soon so it can be the first Bitcoin Film and hopefully it will bring good effects to bitcoin in general. More adoption, more demands, and obviously price boost.

The trailer looks attractive, but we don't know how bitcoin is portrayed in the film. If it is portrayed with all its good and the technology making a big change, following which we can expect a bigger level of adoption of bitcoin from common people who haven't known much about it. If negative things were prioritized surely it'll be a blow to the people who have been with plans to invest on bitcoin.

[7jaka7]

Any info when the film will be released officially and will it be available world wide?

It's out already. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8563452/

I need to watch this now. I hope information related to cryptocurrencies are correct.
Anyway good to see this. I hope there will soon be film where cryptocurrencies will be presented as a mainstream currency. It would be awesome to hear a cashier casualy saying 65047 satoshis.

[vv181]

Cryptocurrencies especially Bitcoin aren't 'pumped' because of the film, instead of the film itself being pumped because of cryptocurrency.

If you think it's a big step, you really have a bad taste. Bitcoin already big and globally available we don't need any shitty Hollywood film to promote nor introduced it. I know it somehow helps the adoption process, but I think it wouldn't help too much.

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It's out already. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8563452/

As expected 5.0/10 rating, imagine if they didn't pick the crypto niches.

[Ailmand]

I didn't know that crypto would be filmed. I don't think it could attract even those who aren't well informed about what cryptocurrency is but I'm sure that it will still click. It will surely bring a positive outcome and good feedback in crypto world. It's another way of educating people as well. Kudos to the filmmakers and actors.

[morrisgonzalez]

Now people are making movies cartoon based on crypto it's really great news for cryptocurrency. Crypto film brings bitcoin to Hollywood, it's helps cryptocurrency that people are showing more interesting on crypto when Hollywood also makes movies based on crypto. These thing make more popular crypto to people and helps to gain trust also. It's a great promotion of cryptocurrency that crypto film brings bitcoin to Hollywood.

[AXELNetwork]

Any info when the film will be released officially and will it be available world wide? The trailer looks so attractive, I hope it will be released soon so it can be the first Bitcoin Film and hopefully it will bring good effects to bitcoin in general. More adoption, more demands, and obviously price boost.

It came out in the US on April 12

[figmentofmyass]

Any info when the film will be released officially and will it be available world wide?

It's out already. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8563452/

I need to watch this now. I hope information related to cryptocurrencies are correct.

haha, i bet it'll be incredibly inaccurate. anything related to technology in movies usually is. it'll probably be chock full of misused jargon and won't be a realistic portrayal at all.

i just hope it isn't used to perpetuate a negative image of crypto. i already know it's super corny:

Hemsworth plays a young Anti-Money Laundering (AML) investigator (is this the first movie to make one of those an over-the-top action hero?) who is stationed in his hometown in New York State and uncovers a web of corruption. Said web involves: Bitcoin, money laundering, Russians, farmers for some reason, and Kurt Russell.

The trailer’s tagline is, “Fear is the ultimate currency.”

[jak3]

OMG, this will be great. Finally Hollywood is embracing the crypto world. we are talking about movies by which people even believe in vampires and ghosts. omg, this is it the world is going to be into bitcoin from now. we are going to get a huge ragging crowd. maybe this film can not make much profit but its the best action anyone can take even if it gets flopped it is still gonna be acting as a cannon. and I do not see any point of being flopped its trailer looks good.

[AXELNetwork]

Any info when the film will be released officially and will it be available world wide?

It's out already. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8563452/

I need to watch this now. I hope information related to cryptocurrencies are correct.

haha, i bet it'll be incredibly inaccurate. anything related to technology in movies usually is. it'll probably be chock full of misused jargon and won't be a realistic portrayal at all.

Hacker movies are the best...just a bunch of really fast typing and throwing in a bunch of nonsense jargon like "ports" "firewalls" and "DNS"

[Twinkledoe]

OMG, this will be great. Finally Hollywood is embracing the crypto world. we are talking about movies by which people even believe in vampires and ghosts. omg, this is it the world is going to be into bitcoin from now. we are going to get a huge ragging crowd. maybe this film can not make much profit but its the best action anyone can take even if it gets flopped it is still gonna be acting as a cannon. and I do not see any point of being flopped its trailer looks good.

Will wait what your reaction will be after watching the movie.  Already watched the film and not so satisfied at all. Maybe I'm expecting more...

[jojohamasa]

Here's a review of the new film "Crypto" that stars Kurt Russell and Luke Hemsworth and is about Bitcoin. A big Hollywood film with big-name stars is a pretty big step in getting Bitcoin recognized globally and making it more legitimate in the eyes of the general public:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8w2EXTKQzA&feature=youtu.be

Films are an important factor in shaping people's conscience and opinions
The effect is doubled if the film was produced by Hollywood
What we need and we hope that the film is realistic  and fair for BTC , then we can say that it is a big step towards BTC more adoption.

[xvids]

I already found a link maybe I would just watch it later but if you want you could search for it at fmovies.to the title of the movie is Crypto.
I think it is a good thing that they made a movie for crypto after all it is still a publicity,
Even though most of it is just the negative side of crypto .
Have fun watching guys 😊.

[pooya87]

a pretty big step in getting Bitcoin recognized globally and making it more legitimate in the eyes of the general public

that is the one thing that will not happen with this film.
usually these things tend to not even be realistic and only focus on the negative part of bitcoin not all the positivity that it has brought to the world. and why would they? people are more interested in watching some dramatic movie even if it has so little facts. and it may not change their opinion about bitcoin that much either.

[dmty.0809]

It might be a good idea, to introduce bitcoin to everyone in the world, so that bitcoin will be easily recognized, and attract them to invest or use bitcoin as a payment tool.

[agatha90]

That's right, by creating a film that tells about bitcoin, hopefully bitcoin will have a positive impact on the wider community. And they know more about cryptocurrency and how to use it.

[franky1]

i watched the movie and it was more about FIAT money laundering where there was a crypto mixer used in the middle
and a few slight references to bitcoin atms, ico's and trading
main theme is:
main character is a AML agent employed by a company, he is initially depicted as a bit of a savant and went into too much detail of a companies finances and found many flaws in their fiat accounts. they didnt like it so suspended him for a few weeks.
his superviser told him to go investigate a local bank in the main characters old home town while the dust settles.
he goes back to his home town and visits one of his teenage favourite places, a liquor store where he and a friend use to steal liquor. this is where he bumps into that same friend, who turns out to now run that same liquor store.

here we learn the friend is highly into bitcoin and crypto. typical hobbyist. has a bitcoinATM in the liquor store, mining equipment in the liquor stores walk-in freezer and the friend is into a bit of hacking and researching ICO's as a extra income method.
now the main character starts looking dumb, doesnt know about bitcoin or hacking or much else and starts relying on the friend later on in the movie. but for now is just settling in working from a back office at the bank weeding through many boxes of unorganised bank paperwork..
small bits of family drama. h runs into his brother who is angry/jealous the main character left the home town, leaving the brother and dad to fend for themselves running a potato farm
back in the bank the main character starts learning about an art gallery and then uses his liquor store buddy to hack further and finds a link to some canadian small fishbait store which turns out to be a shell company for the russian mob
its found that the bank, art gallery and fishbait store are linked to an OTC(over the counter) mixer/exchange that launders the fiat for the russians.
the russians then come to town and burn down the liquor store. but not before the main characters friend makes a video of all the evidence including making a bitcoin HD phraseseed which contains alot of bitcoin
the russians find out so kidnap the main characters dad and want the evidence returned in exchange for the dads release.
evidence is handed over and dad gets released

all in all thats about it in regards to 'crypto' based stuff.. which to me was slim snippets of a bitcoin ATM a bit of chatter about mining,ico and trading. and a OTC mixer/exchange.... the rest of the movie was pretty much fiat money laundering for the russians and the story line wouldnt have change much if the liquor store owner was just a standard hacker and the laundering was done by way of pure fiat. i just flt they only slid in references of crypto based to make a boring standard russian mob laundering movie sound more appealing/relevant to the millennial generation

[bhabygrim]

I think it is great that they already made a film about crypto but I don't really think that it would help a lot in adaptation.
The film was about the negative side money laundering using crypto and hacking.

[Haunebu]

The film has a freaking 5/10 rating in IMDB and I don't recognize any of the actors which is why this is not news to me. Majority of the film focuses on the negative aspects of crypto overall which is why I don't think it will help in any way whatsoever.

A successful film with recognized actors can help crypto  by driving adoption upwards which is something I am looking forward to in the future.