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Derek Ross
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I watched the documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery. Overall, it was decently entertaining and did a good job of covering a lot of Bitcoin's history. However, there were some inaccuracies or misleading portrayals. For example, the documentary failed to mention that "Bitcoin Jesus" (Roger Ver) is now primarily associated with Shitcoins, inaccurately claimed that Blockstream takes a portion of all Bitcoin transaction fees, and misrepresented the Blocksize War. It also completely omitted any discussion of the Lightning Network and framed Blockstream as a centralized force behind Bitcoin, which doesn't accurately reflect the decentralized nature of the Bitcoin's ecosystem.

As for the ending conclusion... Is it Peter Todd, because he's incredibly intelligent, invented Replace-by-Fee and understands Bitcoin better than most? I don't know and I don't care. It doesn't matter who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Bitcoin is stronger because we don't know.

What I do know is that since the journalist misrepresented Blockstream and the Blocksize Wars, it seems likely that other aspects of the documentary could also be misrepresented, like the portrayal of Peter Todd and the attempt to connect random dots to Satoshi Nakamoto.
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CARLOS · 71w
Someone please tell me a successful blockstream product today
MikeMonty · 71w
Journalism isn’t today what journalism once was. And what it once was never was what we thought it to be.
William ₿ Travis · 71w
Seems like it misrepresented too many things to be called "decent."
Dave🐸 · 71w
Home Box Office entertainment ✅ For review type shit.. I think back to those pre internet days when we watched the same tv show and waited with anticipation to talk to our friends about it the next day🥹 A spoiler alert / please skip wall of text if next time 🤙🏽 Your bitcoin maxi consu...
wolfpy · 71w
Watching it now. It is quite entretaining. But ye already seeing some flaws
MarcG · 71w
Especially after I saw the full power of a video editor in that 60 minutes kamala interview earlier on Tuesday. Their power to influence the viewers perception is VERY strong, - WHATEVER the interviewee says /doesn't say!! Never saw that so clearly before.
Hak-Kun Hyun Baek ⚡ · 71w
Thank you. Your comment made me sure not to watch this documentary. It's saving my time! 😁
QW · 71w
Documentaries always need to reach for conclusions in a one sided approach. It’s just the way they work. People believe what they want to. It’s human nature and if the documentary was pitched to solve this mystery it was doomed to fail from the beginning. Keep in mind, this is the same guy who ...
CitizenPleb · 71w
Absolutely. Painting Blockstream as a centralizing force was quite funny. For a documentary like this in 2024 to not mention lightning once, especially as it relates to the “scaling problem” it takes the time to explain is ridiculous. Also, for all the time spent on Blockstream and Adam Back,...
Ben Hailey · 71w
I would like a body language psychologist to analyze Peter, Adam, and even Samson in that documentary. I don’t think it matters who Satoshi is either. But Peter and Adam know or they are Satoshi. And I think Samson may know too. Peter and Adam know. I’d put money on it.
Remco Ros · 71w
they photoshopped the screenshot where they show the bitcointalk post where peter supposedly "continued" satoshis thoughts.. like.. for real?! just show the original post in its entirety..