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

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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/

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

It’s already been made: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3312868/

Has anyone here seen it? Worth a watch?

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

Fun fact: The director is Alex Winter who played Bill from Bill and Ted. I guess he got his buddy Ted to narrate.

Really great story. One twist leads to another: https://youtu.be/jQ5H-1YpqmM?t=108

The book "American Kingpin" is a great retelling of Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road events.

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/

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

Then why do I have to wait so long for my Bitcoin BTC transactions to be processed?

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.

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.

You aren’t paying enough to have it processed, is the technically correct answer.

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.

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