I was also originally thinking why is Ben McKenzie speaking at a Senate Committee on crypto, he's an actor with a BA in economics. But the truth is, people are being scammed hard by celebrities whether it's endorsements or directly being rugged by their NFT's and shitcoin scams..... Clearly they have more influence than we'd like ideally, and so as long as that's the case, maybe it's not all bad that one of them (particularly one like McKenzie who resonates with younger people because of The OC) is telling people to be careful since people obviously put too much weight behind celebs even for investing advice anyways