Documentary Style
TopicalEveryone Is Lying to You for Money
Actor turned investigator Ben McKenzie spent three years exposing cryptocurrency's culture of hype and fraud — essential context as crypto moves into mainstream finance and government.
Year
2025
Type
film
Runtime
90 min
Language
English
Director
Ben McKenzie
Genres
Summary
When COVID lockdowns hit, actor and author Ben McKenzie got curious about cryptocurrency. Three years later, he had conducted dozens of confrontational interviews with the industry's most powerful figures and reached a stark conclusion.
McKenzie's journey takes him from Bitcoin's founding premise to El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment and on to the collapse of FTX. Through candid interviews with crypto's biggest names, the film exposes how warning signs were ignored while everyday investors lost everything. The most haunting moment: returning to devastated victims who, despite losing everything, still believe in the crypto dream.
A sharp, funny, and deeply unsettling examination of how an industry convinced millions to trust something built on belief rather than value.