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   The actor, best known for his starring role in "The O.C.," has become   
   an outspoken critic of a volatile market driven by speculation. Who's   
   listening?   
      
   By David Yaffe-Bellany   
      
   ROCKDALE, Texas -- Ben McKenzie was driving his father's silver Subaru   
   through Texas farmland, talking in breathless bursts about money: who   
   has it, who needs it, what makes it real or fake. He detailed the   
   perils of cryptocurrency exchanges, the online brokers that sell   
   Bitcoin and Ether to speculators, then delivered a glowing endorsement   
   of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," a 700-page book by the   
   economist Thomas Piketty about income inequality and the power of   
   wealthy capitalists.   
      
   "If they can make money on it, they'll do it," Mr. McKenzie, 43, said   
   as he sped past cattle farms and run-down gas stations one morning in   
   March.   
      
   Mr. McKenzie was on his way to Whinstone U.S., a crypto mining   
   operation about an hour outside Austin, where rows of energy-guzzling   
   machines generate new Bitcoins. Over the last six months, as A-list   
   celebrities have shilled for digital currencies and NFTs,   
   Mr. McKenzie, a TV actor best known for his starring role in "The   
   O.C.," has become an outspoken skeptic. He's written critically about   
   the #ad for little-known coins that Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram   
   and earnestly asked Reese Witherspoon to stop proselytizing about the   
   metaverse, all while acknowledging that he's not a financial expert.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/style/ben-mckenzie-crypto.html   
      
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