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The Lincoln Project

Easy Money with Ben McKenzie

The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.78.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by the television star turned crypto-critic…Ben McKenzie. They discuss the rise of cryptocurrency, who’s drawn to it, and why no one can seem to explain exactly what it is. Plus, a look at the fraud of Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX and other major players in the crypto-space…and how Donald Trump’s presidency/MAGA set the stage for cryptocurrency to take off in the way that it did. For more on this topic, be sure to check out Ben McKenzie’s new book, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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not weird if it works, hey everyone it's read, before we get started, this month the Lincoln

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1:15.7

Welcome back to the Lincoln project, I'm your host, Reed Gaelin, today I'm joined by

1:21.1

television star turned crypto critic Ben McKenzie, you may know Ben from his roles in the

1:26.2

OC, Southland and Gotham, but that's not why he's here today, about two years ago he

1:31.9

teamed up with journalist Jacob Silverman to write the book Easy Money, cryptocurrency,

1:36.7

casino capitalism and the golden age of fraud, which is available wherever fine books are

1:41.2

sold, he also recently testified before the US Congress as a witness in a Senate banking

1:45.8

committee hearing on cryptocurrency and the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange, today

1:51.0

he's coming to us from Brooklyn, New York, Ben welcome, thanks for having me Reed, all right so

1:56.2

there is so much that's in this but I made a note that I wanted to start the conversation with,

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