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Piratebay.org Now Being Used to Crowdsource “The Torrent Man” Film

93 points by caution 6y ago

FreeTrade 6y ago
In a similar vein, there's also a crowdfunding campaign for the documentary 'Breaking Bitcoin'. It's to be about how Bitcoin was hijacked and throttled. http://flipstarter.breakingbitcoinfilm.com/ http://flipstarter.breakingbitcoinfilm.com/
- random_kris 6y ago
  please stop spreading FUD stuff... bitcoin wasn't hijacked and throttled. what happend was that some guy managed to brainwash some people and created bitcoin cash with that money
  - georgedonnelly 6y ago
    Then why do I have to wait so long for my Bitcoin BTC transactions to be processed?
    - mmrezaie 6y ago
      Wasn't the latency and limitation on throughput of number of transactions per second a flaw in design? I remember it that the whole process must have have been redesinged in order to get to what Banks are capable right now.
      - thebean11 6y ago
        Transactions aren't free, they incur a permanent storage cost on nodes. Whether that's a design flaw is up to you, but any other solution has other tradeoffs. The lightning network exists, which I believe can eventually offer more bank-level transaction volumes off chain (still trustlessly) with periodic "commits" back to the chain.
    - conception 6y ago
      You aren’t paying enough to have it processed, is the technically correct answer.
      - sliken 6y ago
        Unless you want a transaction in less than 5 minutes (on average). If you want less than that, like say a few seconds for a credit card, then you have to use something besides bitcoin.
  - V6HBGNQHU 6y ago
    Stop spreading propaganda and stop listening to people who think the solution to BTC's issues is to use credit cards.
sktrdie 6y ago
Hollywood needs to do a movie on what happened to silk road back in the day (where Ross Ulbricht was imprisoned for life): https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/ https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/ That article alone has more drama than any recent thriller/drug movie... and it's mostly real life. An animated version in style with the article's cartoons would be amazing
- simongr3dal 6y ago
  It’s already been made: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/
  - TheUndead96 6y ago
    Has anyone here seen it? Worth a watch?
    - Fnoord 6y ago
      If you already followed the story in the news then there's nothing new in this documentary. If you wanna learn about the story, its a good one. Its narrated by Keanu Reeves. It has decent scores (~7-8 out of 10) on IMDB (already linked) and Rotten Tomatoes [1] OP was asking about a Hollywood movie though; this is a documentary. A Hollywood movie would be to Snowden what this documentary is to Citizenfour. [1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deep_web https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deep_web
      - j-kent 6y ago
        Fun fact: The director is Alex Winter who played Bill from Bill and Ted. I guess he got his buddy Ted to narrate.
    - BlueScreenDeath 6y ago
      Yes and 100%, YES!
- milansuk 6y ago

93 points by caution 6y ago

In a similar vein, there's also a crowdfunding campaign for the documentary 'Breaking Bitcoin'. It's to be about how Bitcoin was hijacked and throttled. http://flipstarter.breakingbitcoinfilm.com/ http://flipstarter.breakingbitcoinfilm.com/

random_kris 6y ago
please stop spreading FUD stuff... bitcoin wasn't hijacked and throttled. what happend was that some guy managed to brainwash some people and created bitcoin cash with that money
- georgedonnelly 6y ago
  Then why do I have to wait so long for my Bitcoin BTC transactions to be processed?
  - mmrezaie 6y ago
    Wasn't the latency and limitation on throughput of number of transactions per second a flaw in design? I remember it that the whole process must have have been redesinged in order to get to what Banks are capable right now.
    - thebean11 6y ago
      Transactions aren't free, they incur a permanent storage cost on nodes. Whether that's a design flaw is up to you, but any other solution has other tradeoffs. The lightning network exists, which I believe can eventually offer more bank-level transaction volumes off chain (still trustlessly) with periodic "commits" back to the chain.
  - conception 6y ago
    You aren’t paying enough to have it processed, is the technically correct answer.
    - sliken 6y ago
      Unless you want a transaction in less than 5 minutes (on average). If you want less than that, like say a few seconds for a credit card, then you have to use something besides bitcoin.
- V6HBGNQHU 6y ago
  Stop spreading propaganda and stop listening to people who think the solution to BTC's issues is to use credit cards.

sktrdie 6y ago

Hollywood needs to do a movie on what happened to silk road back in the day (where Ross Ulbricht was imprisoned for life): https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/ https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/ That article alone has more drama than any recent thriller/drug movie... and it's mostly real life. An animated version in style with the article's cartoons would be amazing

simongr3dal 6y ago
It’s already been made: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/
- TheUndead96 6y ago
  Has anyone here seen it? Worth a watch?
  - Fnoord 6y ago
    If you already followed the story in the news then there's nothing new in this documentary. If you wanna learn about the story, its a good one. Its narrated by Keanu Reeves. It has decent scores (~7-8 out of 10) on IMDB (already linked) and Rotten Tomatoes [1] OP was asking about a Hollywood movie though; this is a documentary. A Hollywood movie would be to Snowden what this documentary is to Citizenfour. [1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deep_web https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deep_web
    - j-kent 6y ago
      Fun fact: The director is Alex Winter who played Bill from Bill and Ted. I guess he got his buddy Ted to narrate.
  - BlueScreenDeath 6y ago
    Yes and 100%, YES!
milansuk 6y ago