The Cult and Corruption of Cryptocurrency

President Donald Trump “issues this meme coin, which is just sort of like bits of computer code he calls a coin,” says actor and documentary filmmaker Ben McKenzie. “It’s completely worthless, and a million people bought into it thinking that they were somehow gonna get rich, and of course, they didn’t.” David Becker/ZUMA Ben McKenzie might seem like an unlikely choice to launch an investigation into the complicated world of cryptocurrency. But the television actor known for shows like The O.C. and Gotham did exactly that.