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A version of the below article first\u00a0appeared\u00a0in David Corn\u2019s newsletter,\u00a0<\/em>Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month\u2014but you can\u00a0sign up for a free 30-day trial.<\/em><\/p>

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Not too sure<\/span> what to make of cryptocurrency? Don\u2019t really understand it but kind of think it\u2019s a scam? That was Ben McKenzie\u2019s attitude when an old buddy during the Covid pandemic suggested he invest in Bitcoin. His pal had given him a bum investment tip years earlier, so McKenzie was wary. But since he was shut in, with time on his hands, he decided to use that stretch to dig deep into crypto\u2014real deep\u2014and came to the realization: It\u2019s a con. Thus, he was launched on a second career as a crypto critic.<\/p>\n

McKenzie\u2019s first career was a pretty good one. He\u2019s a Hollywood star. He played Ryan Atwood, the bad boy with a good heart, on\u00a0The O.C.<\/em>, the popular teen drama of the 2000s. He was also police detective Jim Gordon in\u00a0Gotham<\/em>, the dark and moody Batman prequel. But now he took on a much different role. Armed only with his undergraduate economics degree from University of Virginia and a sense of skepticism, he fired up his laptop and mounted a one-man investigation of crypto that resulted in the 2023 book (co-written with journalist Jacob Silverman),\u00a0Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud.\u00a0<\/em>The title is a giveaway for where his inquiry landed.<\/p>\n

Last month, the 47-year-old McKenzie released a documentary,\u00a0Everyone Is Lying to You for Money<\/em>, which, appropriately for a denizen of a superhero world, is an origin story. It chronicles how this former teen heartthrob became one of the leading antagonists of the crypto industry. It also serves up a 90-minute-long entertaining primer on crypto, explaining its rise, its scamminess, and the threat it poses to the financial sector\u2014and you and me. It\u2019s not quite the same as watching\u00a0Margot Robbie in a bubble bath\u00a0explain subprime loans, but McKenzie has deftly crafted an enjoyable but troubling ride through the murky world of digital currency.<\/p>\n

McKenzie began his crypto journey with a simple principle: You should not invest in something you don\u2019t understand. After the financial crash of 2007, people were right to be pissed off at Big Finance, a system rigged by Wall Street predators for the wealthy. The promise that cryptocurrency could decentralize and democratize finance was appealing. But the specific promise of Bitcoin sounded like a \u201cfree lunch\u201d to him. Especially given how Matt Damon and other celebs, paid by the industry, were promoting crypto as an adventure for the bold and exploiting FOMO. \u201cWhat does Matt Damon know about crypto?\u201d McKenzie asks in the film. \u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKenzie trekked to crypto conventions and talked to crypto disciples (including one cryptocurrency founder who ended up in prison for fraud). He traveled to El Salvador, where the nation\u2019s authoritarian leader embraced crypto and promised to build a \u201cBitcoin City\u201d powered by geothermal energy from a volcano. (Spoiler alert: There\u2019s no such city yet.) In July 2022, he interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried, who fast became a billionaire by creating the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, and who had a hard time explaining to McKenzie what crypto was good for besides speculation and criminal operations. \u201cThere needs to be more oversight,\u201d SBF told him. (Four months later FTX would collapse and Bankman-Fried would be arrested for fraud and money-laundering.)<\/p>\n

In London, McKenzie chatted with Dan Davies, an economist and author of\u00a0Lying for Money<\/em>, and asked him, \u201cAll of crypto can\u2019t be a scam, right?\u201d Davies replied, \u201cI don\u2019t like that word \u2018can\u2019t.\u2019\u201d McKenzie testified before Congress and called the crypto industry \u201cthe largest Ponzi scheme in history,\u201d warning it could infect the entire financial system if not regulated properly. In perhaps the most disturbing scene, he talked to everyday folks who still believed in the power and dream of crypto\u2014even after being fleeced in a crypto scheme that crashed.<\/p>\n

The film has been playing in several theaters nationwide, often with McKenzie doing Q&As. He hopes it will be on a streaming service soon. We recently talked about the movie and the current state of crypto.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the end of the documentary. You\u2019re talking with your wife, and you say that you didn\u2019t think that your anti-crypto efforts up to that point had much impact\u2014your congressional testimony, your advocacy, your book. Have you seen more impact from the film?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have. I go to screenings as often as I can and do a Q&A afterwards. I can see the audience really responding to the film. They have a lot of questions, a lot of anger\u2014directed at not just crypto, but also prediction markets and AI. I\u2019ve had incredible conversations with strangers, and personally that makes me feel good. Like I\u2019m not crazy. And maybe this is part of the start of a change in the way we view all these things. A lot of folks have concerns similar to those with crypto about AI data centers and their effect on local communities. And who\u2019s in charge of it? I feel inspired by that. And more people are going to see a 90-minute comedy that they can watch at home than are ever going to read a 300-page book on economics. I get that. I made the movie to be entertaining. So hopefully it is.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t address AI in the film. But my guess is that in many people\u2019s mind crypto and AI merge together as part of the whole issue with Big Tech and the dislocation it is causing. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a number of areas of overlap. There\u2019s disruption to communities and the costs that come from having these data centers and crypto mining operations in these places. They use an enormous amount of electricity, which can cause people\u2019s prices to go up. They are incredibly loud, some of them very disruptive. And are you familiar with the term \u201cthe grift shift\u201d? That\u2019s the idea that grifters shift from one grift to another. So there\u2019s a grift shift between the last crypto crash and the current AI boom. Companies that were mining Bitcoin suddenly decided they were going to be data centers. That\u2019s somewhat telling. The difference, of course, is that AI is a real technology, whereas blockchain used for crypto is quite old and isn\u2019t used for much of anything outside of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

I think the concern that I and many other people have is, who\u2019s in control of the technology and what are their motives? I read the\u00a0profile\u00a0of Sam Altman, the OpenAI head, in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>, and I saw this quote from an unnamed Microsoft executive who said, \u201cI think there\u2019s a small but real chance he\u2019s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not nearly qualified to make grandiose statements, but it does feel like we\u2019re running into problems that the current version of capitalism we\u2019re practicing doesn\u2019t solve. In fact, it only reinforces some of the negative dynamics. We\u2019re talking about the accrual of extraordinary wealth in the hands of few and the costs to the broader public\u2014and the sense that the system is rigged. These things seem to be getting worse\u2014obviously embodied by our con-man-in-chief president. How do we address it? Democracy is not working. There\u2019s a bad crypto bill going through Congress, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act [which would set up a regulatory regimen with less stringent rules for crypto]. We know why Republicans are voting for it, but the reason that some Democratic members may vote for it is that they\u2019re afraid of the crypto lobby, which has a lot of money.<\/p>\n

In the movie, you show that when you came became a public crypto critic, you got a lot of hate mail and harassment online from crypto fans who claimed you didn\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. Has that happened with this film as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not that I\u2019m aware of. I\u2019m sure I have. But I\u2019m not on X anymore. After Elon Musk took it over, my account got hacked, and I couldn\u2019t recover it because there was no customer service at X anymore. I haven\u2019t been able to access my X account for years. I\u2019m blissfully unaware of what\u2019s happening on that platform, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019m getting some hatred over there. In person, at the screenings, it\u2019s been either completely lovely or some very, quite frankly, reasonable questions from a guy in the audience who\u2019s pushing back politely and trying to have a reasonable conversation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s harder to be an asshole in real life than it is online.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Absolutely. Online it\u2019s almost like the algorithm is telling you to be an asshole so that you get the clicks and the engagement. The clich\u00e9 is the internet is not real life, but crypto exists exclusively on the internet. There is no there there. And most of these crypto \u201ccommunities\u201d aren\u2019t really communities. They are people trying to sell you this or that type of thing, people hiding behind a pseudonym. In the real world, 80-plus percent of the country has never bought cryptocurrency. And when I ask them what they think of it, they almost always say some version of this: It seems complicated, but also scammy, and maybe I\u2019m just not smart enough to understand it.<\/p>\n

I made the movie to say, \u201cNo, you are. You know it sounds too good to be true. It is.\u201d I don\u2019t think I can convince the 5 to 6 percent of the population that\u2019s really into crypto. They\u2019re sort of members of a cult. And then there\u2019s maybe 10 percent that are playing around with it. It\u2019s really wild that 5 to 6 percent of the population can dictate policy on Capitol Hill, isn\u2019t it? Talk about a minority view and overrunning the democratic processes.<\/p>\n

When you were making the movie, you noted that Bitcoin was worth about $44,000. Today it\u2019s $80,960. Why is it still holding so much value?<\/strong><\/p>

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In the fall of 2021, it was $60,000. So it\u2019s a little bit above that. It\u2019s recovered from 2022 when all these companies went bust, and several people went to jail. The market was really in the tank. Now it\u2019s very simple: Donald Trump is most of the answer. The market was slowly recovering, but not in any spectacular way. Then in summer of 2024 Trump suddenly embraced Bitcoin. After calling Bitcoin a scam as recently as 2021, he suddenly saw an angle. Perhaps as a way to make money, perhaps as a way to appeal to a certain constituency of young men.<\/p>\n

People rationally made a calculation. If this thing is really based on no underlying asset, you\u2019re basically putting money in because you hope that someone else will buy it from you. For econ guys like me, that\u2019s the greater fool theory. But if you think that other people are going to buy it because Trump has a 50-50 shot at being president and he can do a lot to push the price higher, then it\u2019s rational to bet on it. So the price started going up then. Sure enough, he was elected. And the price kept going up. And by the time he got in office, it was $100,000 a coin.<\/p>\n

He and his administration have done an incredible amount to take apart what safeguards and accountability there was\u2014not just by\u00a0pardoning\u00a0\u00a0Changpeng Zhao (a.k.a. \u201cCZ\u201d), the founder of Binance, but also ripping apart the Justice Department cryptocurrency task force, and passing this bad bill called the Genius Act, which allows corporations to issue their own form of crypto. It was absurd any Democrat voted for it, but 100 Democrats did. So Donald Trump and people associated with him, including Howard Lutnick, Marc Andreessen, and Elon Musk, have been incredibly effective in getting crypto into our system and taking apart the rules, regulations, and law enforcement apparatuses that were trying to keep it in check.<\/p>\n

With Trump now in the crypto business\u2014albeit in a major conflict of interest and in a corrupt manner\u2014do you think that\u2019s given crypto a political status?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Definitely. To have the most powerful person in the world go all in is an incredible advantage. It\u2019s deeply ironic, though. Crypto was supposed to be this reaction to the excesses of tyrannical government. This was supposed to be money that exists outside the government. And now you have the president of the United States issuing his own versions of these \u201ccurrencies.\u201d And he\u2019s now\u00a0being accused of fraud\u00a0by one of his top investors. This certainly lays bare the lie that crypto is the decentralized, democratized future of money\u2014when you\u2019re talking about regulatory capture and corruption, and all the things that Trump embodies.<\/p>\n

When you interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried for the film\u2014just a few months before he was arrested\u2014did you have a sense that he was blowing smoke up your ass about crypto?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. He clearly had trouble answering some basic questions. The simple question was, what good does crypto do? Give me one example. And he mentioned remittances\u2014the payments workers here send to relatives in their home countries. But I had just come from El Salvador, where I saw crypto was not being used for this, and I politely said bullshit. Here\u2019s supposedly the head of the industry, and he can\u2019t tell me one good thing that this trillion-dollar industry actually does.<\/p>\n

The most alarming moment in our interview is when I asked him about the donations he made to politicians, and he has a hard time answering. He can\u2019t look me in the eye. He can\u2019t tell me how much money he was giving to them, which I thought at the time was quite strange because he was so openly supportive of the Democrats. You could have looked this up. It was public. He gave $40 million or whatever to the Democrats. Why is he lying to me or having a hard time with this question. We learned later he was allegedly running a $100 million straw-donors game. He was giving to the Democrats publicly, but he was secretly giving to the Republicans via cutouts.<\/p>\n

I felt good about the interview from a journalistic standpoint. But on a personal level, I had this sinking feeling that if this is the guy in charge, something bad was going to happen. And sure enough, it did.<\/p>\n

One of the more poignant parts of the movie is when you\u2019re talking to everyday, retail investors who lost money in a big crypto bust-up and they say they still believe in crypto.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That was pretty powerful. Even I was a little surprised by it. This is how I make sense of it. We\u2019re talking about the dynamics of the cult. We are way outside of what would be a \u201crational investment\u201d where if you lose money, you\u2019d be like either \u201cThat sucks\u201d and\/or \u201cI got scammed.\u201d These guys are twisting themselves in knots to say, \u201cWell, I got scammed here in this one crypto thing. But the bigger idea still works, even if I\u2019ve still lost money in it.\u201d That requires a lot of rationalizations. It\u2019s almost the more you lose, the more you have to believe. To acknowledge that you were duped and this is all a scam would be very painful.<\/p>\n

I also can\u2019t help but reflect on the gender dynamic, which I think is really sort of fascinating. It\u2019s quite sad to say\u2014as a man and as a father of boys\u2014that men are better marks. They have a harder time talking about their feelings, admitting that they\u2019ve been duped. They have a lot of pride. And the crypto industry\u2019s sort of genius is getting them to blame themselves for it.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s this whole culture in crypto of DYOR\u2014do your own research\u2014meaning, if you lose the money, it\u2019s your fault. That benefits the fraudsters and the insiders who are making money, but also keeps the big population of outsiders, the regular guys, in the game. They think they have to keep going. HODL\u2014hold on for dear life. You can\u2019t sell your Bitcoin, no matter what.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a chilling moment in the film when you ask Dan Davies, the economist and fraud expert, whether all of crypto is a scam, and he does not challenge that idea. It that your bottom-line belief? It\u2019s just a con and eventually there will be a reckoning?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crypto is only good for two things: gambling\u2014is the price going to go up or down?\u2014and crime. The amount of crime that crypto facilitates is staggering. There\u2019s a crypto company, Chainanalysis, that\u00a0estimated\u00a0$154 billion of criminal activity was facilitated via crypto last year alone. There\u2019s the bubble idea that the price could, over time, keep going up, as new people flock to crypto as the story continues to spread. And then crime gives it a use case, a reason to be valuable.<\/p>\n

In my congressional testimony, I described as a Ponzi scheme. What is Trump\u2019s thing, if not a Ponzi scheme, right? His meme coin is down 96 percent. It\u2019s all a penny stock, a pump-and-dump, a Ponzi scheme\u2014pick your metaphor. It\u2019s not a legitimate investment. That\u2019s 99 percent of it. Then there\u2019s crime on top of it. And what\u2019s most troubling is that if crypto gets further into our regulated system, as it\u2019s threatening to do this with the Genius Act that passed and the proposed Clarity Act, then the repercussions could be huge. Because if it does crash again\u2014and I will remind people that crypto has crashed many times in its brief but sordid history\u2014it could contribute to the next version of a subprime crisis. That would be incredibly ironic, given the crypto was supposedly a reaction to that crisis.<\/p>\n

Have you heard from Matt Damon, whom you roast in the film for being a pitchman for crypto?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I try to keep my head down in our weekly celebrity meetings when we all get together and chat about the industry. No, I don\u2019t know Matt. I actually don\u2019t know anyone personally who has sold crypto. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be getting a Matt Damon movie anytime soon.<\/p>

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