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Ben McKenzie, actor and star from The O.C., holds a strong skeptical opinion about crypto. He has spent a lot of time digging into the blockchain world, convinced it is all a fraud scheme that he will unveil.
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McKenzie has a B.A. in economics and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. Alongside New Republic journalist Jacob Silverman, they have written a couple of pieces (see here and here) about alleged fraud in the ecosystem and are currently working on a book called ‘Easy Money.’
I am of the opinion that if one researches any topic trying to prove a single narrative without digging into your own possible mistakes, then your study will likely be flawed because it lacked to see beyond what you intended to prove.
For this reason, I now believe that McKenzie’s thoughts have several ‘little white biases.’ Little white lies are meant to be inoffensive but misleading in order to convince or prove a point. Well, with biases it’s kind of the same, only that the person telling them might truly believe they hold the only side of the story worth telling.
In this case, McKenzie makes great and valid points in many of his…
