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provoost | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +26 
 > Spoiler alert: the filmmaker is laughed at right in his face at the end of his film by the man he identifies as the bitcoin inventor in a Wie is de Mol-like scene. And I felt that urge too.

(Dutch newspaper, paywalled)

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10/16/zoektocht-naar-uitvinder-van-bitcoin-eindigt-in-hoongelach-a4869535
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provoost | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The documentary review even made it to the physical weekend edition, nice! Here's another quote: 
Hoback: so what is it about then?
Todd: to make Bitcoin the global currency while people like you are distracted by nonsense.
https://img.sprovoost.nl/48d2a5c230015e6606fb15cb795d7bc7027097c54f179f41effa3ebf480ccf8c.jpg
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Scarcifiable | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Dank voor het delen Sjors!
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mycelium | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Had a discussion with a NRC employee last Friday about the reason I quit our NRC subscription. One key argument was their consistent inability to write about Bitcoin in an intellectual honest way. He did not agree. We ended our conversation there.
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mutatrum | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 They had so much interesting source material, and chose to ruin it by going on a wild goose chase. 70% was really interesting, 30% was idiotic.