The documentary series “The Satoshi Mystery – The Origins of Bitcoin” tells how bitcoin came into being on October 31, 2008, the philosophy that motivated its creation, and its evolution over the past 13 years.
It is a certain Satoshi Nakamoto who presents himself as the creator of bitcoin, the first decentralized and stateless cryptocurrency. Who is he ? No one knows. “I’m 40, 50, 60 years old. I am a woman, a man, an artificial intelligence. I acted alone, with others, what does it matter? Bitcoin is collective in essence ”, launches the latter to those who seek to bring it out of its anonymity. The documentary series, available in six ten-minute episodes, to be discovered on arte.tv, YouTube and Instagram from November 17, plunges viewers behind the scenes of this incredible saga which has already begun to revolutionize the world. But the operation of which remains misunderstood by the majority of the general public.
Combining animation, interviews with experts, and archive images, the director Rémi Forte returns to the origin of this project, namely the creation of an anonymous virtual currency, transparent, without intermediary, which solves the problem of double spending – the risk of a sum being spent twice – thanks to the blockchain. This word designates the shared and immutable register listing all the transactions carried out, from the first to the last.
In addition to explaining the workings and philosophy of bitcoin, this documentary series also shows how its success – its price jump from $ 0.001 to $ 60,000 at its highest in a dozen years – is the subject of much covetousness. , whether with digital giants or certain states, which are now seeking to create their own virtual currency. But without respecting the ideal of bitcoin, and its raison d’être. Note that actor Thibault de Montalembert (Ten percent) lends his voice for the dubbing of Satoshi Nakamoto.