Ben McKenzie
speaker
2,248 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 May
Ben McKenzie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can have trouble getting out of the system.
And so people would rather spend, these people do not have money to gamble with.
So that was a real revelation to me where it's like,
Because it just so clearly was a narrative that had been constructed for Westerners.
It had been constructed to convince crypto holders and potential crypto holders that, no, there was a future and it was happening in El Salvador.
They were going to build this beautiful Bitcoin city in eastern El Salvador.
I go there.
It's not happening.
It was never going to happen.
It's a total grift.
So I'd say without that was the moment.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The story works because it's super simple.
Our system sucks.
Like everyone raises their hand and then they say Bitcoin fixes this.
It's just the second part.
That's the bullshit part.
The first part is true.
The first part is if crypto serves any functions to highlight the myriad failures of a regulated system and hopefully should encourage us to fix that system.
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