Satoshi. The Creation of Bitcoin.

The proof-of-concept trailer Satoshi, The Creation of Bitcoin presents a coming-of-age story that spans decades and continents from 1990s São Paulo into 2008’s London cypher-punk underground.

When the trailer dropped it caught fire across the Bitcoin community, surpassing one million views and more than three thousand reposts on X/Twitter within days. The momentum carried to the Bitcoin Film Festival 2025 in Warsaw where the project claimed the Golden Rabbit award for Best Short, the first fully AI film to take the festival’s top honour.

The reaction proved that audience hunger for the Satoshi myth, combined with the reach of AI filmmaking, can turn an independent trailer into a global cultural moment. Produced entirely with AI by Arthur Machado, the piece demonstrates how generative tools can free stories that might never reach the screen. 

Credits:

Concept, Producer, Director: Arthur Machado