Ben McKenzie
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Sure, the price could go up, could also go down.
You'd rather it just stayed stable.
Most of that $154 billion that I'm talking about, most of that of criminal activity last year was stablecoins.
Yeah, I mean, you get a ton of online hate, obviously.
I'm not on X anymore, which is really nice.
I loved Twitter.
I met Jacob Silverman on Twitter.
It's such a good thing for a journalist and you got all this news.
but then Elon took it over and all of a sudden I got hacked on Twitter and I can't get into my accounts.
My account sits there, but I haven't posted in years.
I kept getting hacked into from places like Russia, which is interesting.
This is after I was outspoken in crypto.
But I'm really grateful, actually, because now that I'm not on it, I don't see that stuff.
And it seems to have gotten worse over there in the last couple of years.
And I'm on the other social medias, or at least some of them, and it's a way better experience.
So it's been online vitriol.
What's interesting is that in person...
I've had very few really gnarly interactions.
I've had a lot of like what you see in the movie, goofy interactions or people who are just kind of odd and or scammers.
But yeah, I mean, in terms of my security, I was really worried about it when I went down the rabbit hole before I started this because I saw how much criminal activity.