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

[caution]

https://torrentfreak.com/piratebay-org-now-being-used-to-crowdsource-the-torrent-man-film-200918/

[sktrdie]

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

[simongr3dal → sktrdie]

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

[TheUndead96 → simongr3dal]

Has anyone here seen it? Worth a watch?

[Fnoord → TheUndead96]

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

[j-kent → Fnoord]

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

[milansuk → sktrdie]

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

[ALittleLight → sktrdie]

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

[FreeTrade]

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/

[random_kris → FreeTrade]

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 → random_kris]

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

[conception → georgedonnelly]

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

[sliken → conception]

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.

[mmrezaie → georgedonnelly]

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 → mmrezaie]

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.