Ben McKenzie

I was like, fuck, I don't know how to write a book.

You know, I took another edible.

I was like, oh, just like find someone else who knows how to write a book.

We'll write it together.

A journalist, Jacob Silverman, had written an article for Slate that the headline is, even Donald Trump knows Bitcoin is a scam.

Because Donald Trump, as recently as 2021, was calling Bitcoin a scam, which is interesting now.

We can talk about that later.

But I thought that was funny.

He was a tech sort of critic for Slate and other places and just had a good way about him online anyway.

Followed him on Twitter.

He followed me back.

I invited him to drinks at a bar in Brooklyn.

And I pitched him on this crazy idea of like, yes, crypto is going to the moon right now.

This is like 2021.

But I think it's going to crash.

And I have all these reasons hit him with probably way too much of my opinion on it.

He happened to be going on paternity leave.

And so he had a window and he was like, okay, let's try it.

So we started writing articles.

The first one was criticizing celebrities and Slade.