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Keanu Reeves Says Rejecting Crypto Will Only Make It Better – Featured Bitcoin News
Famous actor Keanu Reeves says that dismissing crypto or criticizing its volatility will only “make it better in terms of how it’s handled.” The Matrix star added that the principle and ideas behind an independent currency are “fantastic”.
Keanu Reeves praises Crypto
Famous actor Keanu Reeves talked about cryptocurrency in an interview with Wired, published on Tuesday. The Matrix and John Wick star opined:
I think the principle, the ideas behind an independent currency are wonderful. These are wonderful tools for exchanging and distributing resources.
“So, to pooh-pooh crypto, or the volatility of cryptocurrency, it’s only going to do better in terms of how it’s safeguarded,” he added, without providing further details.
The Hollywood star has previously revealed that he owned cryptocurrency. “A friend of mine bought me some a while back,” he said in December 2021, adding that he hadn’t done anything with it.
Reeves, NFTs and the Metaverse
Reeves also explained how he became an advisor to the Futureverse Foundation, a charity launched last June by Non-Fungible Labs, a New Zealand-based non-fungible token (NFT) and blockchain technology company. In addition to supporting underrepresented artists, the foundation explained that it “seeks to help keep the metaverse widely accessible, healthy and evolving.”
Reeves shared, “It’s something my partner, Alexandra Grant, is really into, so I’m kind of riding her coattails. I helped set up the launch.” Both Reeves and Grant are advisors to the Futureverse Foundation, Reeves described:
We’re trying to take this technology that people are interested in and give opportunities to artists with different points of view.
Commenting on Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, making the metaverse a priority, Reeves said: “It’s like they’ve created more land. There is more land for sale. There is value creation and there is opportunity.”
The Matrix star has previously expressed his skepticism about NFTs, stating that they are “easily manufactured.” He was also skeptical of Facebook’s metaverse. “Can’t we just have metaverse being invented by Facebook? The concept of metaverse is much older than that,” he said in December 2021.
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