Actor-turned-crypto critic Ben McKenzie on his new book ‘Easy Money’

[@wendycurrie9629]

Ben has real balls! Going against the trend to expose the fraud and scams in crypto has provided a real public service to the ‘unsophisticated’ investor! Well done!

[@GillianRosheuvel]

Listening to the audiobook, and it's very compelling.

[@Dire_Straights_Boston_Edition]

How much is a copy? I'm from South Africa.

[@dalepetersen1166]

People who have practically no money can't make the market swing in big directions one way or another The only way you get a market of $3 trillion dollars is by having billionaires goofing around with it not young men so don't blame them for escalations and declines in the crypto

[@BitRoel]

nonsense, I dont understand you post something like this when you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Anyone can enter any market, the total market size has no impact

[@Chackalisimo]

How are those eyebrows so separated and the guy still look so handsome? Not gay or anything, just curious.

[@kingchakazulu7762]

You're a gay dork, smh.

[@dorianhoo1342]

Thanks this was interview was brilliant

[@neviswarren]

Excellent interview. Thank you.

[@BitRoel]

Excellent? questions are being avoided...

[@BitRoel]

When asked something about the current good things happening to Bitcoin, Ben swifts the subject. Why not being honest there Ben? Got a book to sell?

[@dorianhoo1342]

the pollution that it generates - sure

[@BitRoel]

@@dorianhoo1342 Christmas lights cost more energy then Bitcoin. But that wasn't the point. Bitcoin is the first digital thing that can't be copied, siezed of blocked. It has the option of giving billions of people acces to the financial system where they can't have a bank account.

[@REZZA2020]

Precisely zero credibility

[@kristophergertz9836]

Im calling it, July 2023, that this guy is full of you know what except for the fact that he admits that he lies for a living. Guarentee the dude didnt make any money "shorting crypto" and more than likely didnt write a single page of the book.

[@puppetmaster1403]

12:00 Ben has a gambling problem and he's mad because he lost a lot of money in Bitcoin.

[@whatsgood22022]

So we should listen to you because you have a degree in economics?

[@SuperM4000]

Crypto is not a zero sum game. If I buy land and sell it 5 years later for a profit because the demand went up, I made a profit and the buyer now owns the land at the fair market value.

[@323guiltyspark]

If you are equating crypto to real estate, then you are admitting that crypto is not a currency. Land has intrinsic value because that value is derived from being able to do things with it other than sell it to someone else. You can build on land. You can live on it, do business on it. That is not how currency works. Currency is meant to be simple and boring. Currency that fluctuates in value to the degree that crypto does is not useful as a means of exchange. The only way for crypto to ever be adopted as a universal currency would be for it to stabilize, which goes against the whole "to the moon" pitch.

[@SuperM4000]

@@323guiltysparkyour arguments are subjective. I can use crypto for things and do. There isn’t only one use case for it. It’s volatile which is an issue but that is lessening over time.

[@323guiltyspark]

@@SuperM4000 I know there are multiple use cases for crypto, but they all suck: speculation, ransomware payments, and purchasing ch*ld p*rn. Anything else you might be able to buy with crypto you can buy with regular money.

[@Peundwell]

This guy seems like he’s being paid by the cia or something. Sounds like a shill. Very sus. I like how he casually drops in some Keynes wisdom only minutes before linking bitcoin to suicide lol classic

[@m0nkey13]

People don't understand that we will all be using crypto in the future. The choice is do you want to control it or do you want to have the government's CBDC in control of your money, your privacy and your freedom. This guy is clueless on blockchain technology. Do your own homework.

[@whenifeellikeit]

The whole market is a bubble. Not all crypto is useless, some of it has actual utility and solves real financial problems. I agree it should be regulated.