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Scamfluencers

Ben McKenzie Hates Crypto, Too

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.17K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When the actor Ben McKenzie started hearing about Bitcoin, he was immediately skeptical. While his friends were investing, he started investigating. In this special episode of Scamfluencers, Scaachi Koul talks with Ben McKenzie – best known for starring in TV shows like The O.C., Southland, and Gotham – about his journey into the world of crypto, celebrities, and “casino capitalism,” as chronicled in his new book. Plus, Ben explains why he thinks crypto is one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of all time.

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

Sarah, we have talked about some pretty weird crypto scammers on this show before.

0:18.5

Remember Razzlecon?

0:19.5

Sachee, of course I remember Razzlecon.

0:22.3

I had to live in her world, okay?

0:24.3

You didn't, okay, fair enough.

0:26.8

Well, it's been kind of tough to cover crypto scammers because the whole thing feels like

0:30.7

a scam, right?

0:31.9

I mean, you and I think like even real money is a con, so I don't know why we would

0:36.5

trust these worthless pieces of code masquerading as currency.

0:39.8

I mean, I 100% agree, even after doing Razzlecon as a crypto episode, I don't think I'm

0:46.4

any closer to understanding it.

0:48.6

Okay, well, I found someone who agrees with us and is also happy to unpack the shared hallucination

0:54.8

slash Ponzi scheme that is crypto.

0:57.6

And now he's going to spill the beans on why crypto is a con and how celebrities are at

1:02.2

these partly to blame.

1:07.2

In June 2021, Kim Kardashian posed a couple of stories to Instagram.

1:12.0

The first is a video of her promising a big announcement.

1:15.2

She's just signed on for a multi-year contract with Disney, including a new reality show

1:19.3

on Hulu and her shaper brand Schemes has recently been valued at more than a billion dollars.

1:26.4

So her fans are probably anticipating a new show or a product line, but that is not what

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