2024-08-01
26 分钟What’s the deal with celebrities promoting cryptocurrencies? This week, Chanté chats to actor and crypto-skeptic Ben McKenzie, star of The OC and Gotham, about how cryptocurrencies infiltrated Hollywood and his transition from actor to investigative journalist
This is the Guardian.
I've got a question for you.
Why is actor Ben McKenzie star of Gotham and the O.C.
Who are you?
Whoever you want me to be.
Taking on the world of crypto.
In my opinion, the cryptocurrency industry represents the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
This week on pop culture with me, Shantae Joseph for the Guardian.
So last week, former president Donald Trump was the keynote speaker at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville.
I stand before you today filled with respect and admiration for what the bitcoin community has achieved.
It's incredible, actually.
That's a big deal.
Besides a random dig at Miley Cyrus.
Billy Ray Cyrus is here.
Where's Billy Ray?
He's a conservative guy.
Said, how did you get such a liberal daughter?
How did that happen, really?
Well, Trump's endorsement of bitcoin marks another moment in its very turbulent history where big public figures are telling us normal folk to believe in it.
So for those who don't know, bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which I'm.