articles · September 22, 2025
Hear From the Filmmakers: Bitcoin Cinema on Podcasts
A roundup of podcast and interview appearances by the people making Bitcoin cinema — Dare to Dream, Stranded, Cryptopia, A Sly Roundabout Way, Bitcoin and Friends, Death Athletic and more.
Bitcoin cinema doesn’t only live on screen. A lot of the best context — why a film got made, what it took to finish it, what the filmmaker actually believes — comes out in conversation. Here’s a roundup of podcast and interview appearances by directors, producers and creators behind Bitcoin films, some embedded below, the rest linked so you can go straight to the source.
Watch these
Graham Rittener on Dare to Dream — the director talks through filming in El Zonte, El Salvador, and turning Bitcoin Beach into a documentary, on Once BITten.
Alana Mediavilla on Stranded and Dirty Coin — the filmmaker on Digital Wildcatters Podcasts, covering two very different angles on Bitcoin and energy.
Torsten Hoffmann on Cryptopia — director and producer on Bitcoin Takeover, discussing the film’s look at crypto culture and its excesses.
Javier Borrayo and Daniel Toledo on A Sly Roundabout Way — filmmaker and producer, on Powered by IBEX.
Robert Allen on Bitcoin and Friends — the creator on The Bitcoin Source.
Jessica Solce on Death Athletic — the director on TFTC.
More conversations worth your time
A few of these creators sat down more than once, and a few more didn’t make the embed list above but are worth the click:
- Graham Rittener, Dare to Dream — also on BitCorner.
- Jessica Solce, Death Athletic — also on Liberty Under Attack.
- Brian Estes, God Bless Bitcoin — producer, on Robert Breedlove’s podcast, alongside Mike Hill talking storytelling and cinema in the same conversation.
- Pedro G., The Anatomy of Bitcoin — on Bitcoin Rapid-Fire and High Hash Rate.
- Terence Michael, on legacy cinema and Bitcoin — Once BITten.
- Joel Ozborn, Batman: Knight In Lockdown — creator and filmmaker, on Bitcoin Made Simple.
- Steve L. and Haley Berkoe, Here Comes Bitcoin — on What Bitcoin Did.
- Rob Johnson and guests, Bitcoiners — on BTC Sessions.
- Jenna Reid, Where Do We Go From Here? — filmmaker, on AccessTribe.
- Alex Waltz, Satoshis Don’t Exist — on High Hash Rate.
- Daniel Harmon, Tuttle Twins TV — on BitCorner and BlockHash Podcast.
- Matt Osterman, Bitcon — filmmaker, on Show Don’t Tell: A Podcast On Micro-Budget Filmmaking.
A couple of the source records only had a partial handle for the guest, so a name or two above is listed as given rather than guessed at. If you know one of these people or shows and can confirm a detail, tell us — get in touch.
