Ben McKenzie

Banks fail all the time.

But like this is the system that we've created.

But people hate the banks because they're always charging you fees and they're always, you know, they're banks.

They're just there to make money and they make money even when they lose money, right?

Like too big to fail.

They get so big that they have to be bailed out.

And so everyone hates them, myself included.

But then crypto says, oh, if you hate that, crypto fixes this.

And that's where the lie is.

The lie is that crypto is better than the traditional banking system.

And the truth is it's far worse because it's unregulated by nature, right?

I mean, if you're trying to obscure your identity, then you're really trying to get around all of the safeguards that already exist in the system.

And what's scary is that crypto has made so much because of Trump's embrace of it.

The film takes place mainly in 2022 when it crashed and I interviewed these guys before they were arrested.

And it was kind of on its way out, but it was waning.

And then Trump embraced it in 2024, running for re-election.

And it's been...

Having his own coin, just talking about Bitcoin all the time.

You know, he found a way to profit off of it and that, you know, endeared him to it, of course.

And so now it's seeped into the traditional, like that's what's really worrying me is that like we could be basically recreating another subprime crisis via cryptocurrency potentially, which is hilariously ironic, right?