Ben McKenzie, the former teen heartthrob who starred in “The O.C.” and “Gotham,” jokingly refers to his somewhat recent career pivot as going from a “mid-level celebrity” to part-time crypto critic. A few years ago, at a time when many of McKenzie’s actor peers were shilling things like EthereumMAX and FTX, he started building a brand as a blockchain scold by going after what he called the “Hollywoodization of crypto.”
The actor’s latest performance reached its apogee today, with the publication of a long-awaited anti-crypto book called “Easy Money,” co-written by freelance journalist Jacob Silverman….
Source: From ‘Gotham’ to Crypto Hypocrisy: Inside Ben McKenzie’s Anti-Crypto Campaign