Ben McKenzie

Because in reality, it might be maybe this guy Adam Back, who we can talk about, who's a very interesting character, or some other cypherpunk cryptographer from that era.

But then it would be a real person, and a real person would be a little bit of a letdown probably, right?

Whoever it is, yeah.

Yeah, right?

I mean, it's just such a better story to have it be a mystery and to have the code take on this mythological status as like...

You know, it's going to fix everything that ails our traditional financial sector.

Because the crypto story is really simple.

It's basically, do you hate our current system?

Everybody raises their hand.

And then, well, Bitcoin fixes this.

And it's the second part that's the lie.

I would argue it's far worse if we were to try to somehow use cryptocurrency as a form of money on a global scale or even a national scale.

But the story is really simple and it's so powerful because the first part we all agree on, you know, our current system sucks.

And so it gets them pretty far.

Yeah, I mean, I would be happy to talk about Adam Back specifically.

So a couple things.

I've never met him and never interviewed him.

He does not like me.

He's referred to me as a crisis actor.

Well, I am an actor.