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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But not only that, on the day that it came into effect, the price of crypto crashed dramatically.
fantastically, like 50,000 to 40,000 in the span of a few minutes or a few hours or something like that, which is really interesting.
Because if you think of the whole thing as a lot of like insider trading, that might be front running.
You see that this big publicity event is happening.
People are expecting the price to go up.
That's a really good time to sell.
As it goes up, you sell.
And you could be shorting at the same time and making a ton of money.
Anyway, I have no evidence that that's true, but it is weird that it crashed so quickly.
That failed, but Bukele was undeterred.
He was like, we're going to build a Bitcoin city in Eastern El Salvador.
We're going to mine Bitcoin from a volcano, and we're going to build a city off of the proceeds.
And there was like a model of this golden city, very Gaddafi-esque.
And I'm like, okay, I got to go check it out.
So we drove 100 miles east.
tiny little fishing village, super remote.
San Salvador is a somewhat big city, but it's a very small country.
They are also a net importer of electricity.
Like they don't produce enough electricity for their own country already.
So this was not financially feasible, but it was a marketing ploy.
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