The List
A subculture of mathematicians, libertarians and outsiders called the Cypherpunks dream of digital cash. From Berkeley basements to Silicon Valley garages, they pass the problem hand to hand for two decades — and fail.
A Feature Documentary
FindingSatoshi
A fifteen-year mystery. A trillion-dollar invention. One question the world has never been able to answer — who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
- Status
- In production
- Premiere
- 2027
- Runtime
- ~104 min
◆Cypherpunks Mailing List · 1992◆Bitcoin v0.1 · 9 January 2009◆Block #0 · The Genesis Block◆Hal Finney · January 11 2009◆1 BTC = $0.0008 · October 2009◆Last Known Message · April 23 2011◆$2.4T Market Cap · 2026◆Cypherpunks Mailing List · 1992◆Bitcoin v0.1 · 9 January 2009◆Block #0 · The Genesis Block◆Hal Finney · January 11 2009◆1 BTC = $0.0008 · October 2009◆Last Known Message · April 23 2011◆$2.4T Market Cap · 2026
"He left no face. No fingerprint. No goodbye. Only a piece of code that rewrote money — and a riddle the world is still trying to solve."
— From the Director's Statement
Three acts.
One ghost.
The Whitepaper
October 31, 2008. A nine-page PDF lands in a sleepy mailing list under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Three months later the network goes live. The world's reserve currency is being written by a stranger, in real time, on the open internet.
The Disappearance
By April 2011 he is gone. No farewell. No final post. The investigators, the suspects, the families — and the believers who insist he never existed at all. Finding Satoshi follows them all to the edge of the map.
"
I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.
Satoshi Nakamoto
metzdowd.com — Oct 31, 2008
"
Running bitcoin.
Hal Finney
Twitter — Jan 11, 2009
"
I've moved on to other things.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Final email — Apr 23, 2011
First look.
Teaser dropping Q4 2026
REC ●00:00:00:00FINDING.SATOSHI / TEASER_01
Filmmakers.
- Directed by
- TBA
- Produced by
- TBA
- Director of Photography
- TBA
- Original Score
- TBA
- Edited by
- TBA
- In Association With
- B0ASE Studios