Famed actor Keanu Reeves says that dismissing cryptocurrencies or criticizing their volatility will only “make you better in terms of how you protect yourself.” The Matrix star added that the principle and ideas behind a standalone coin are “incredible.”
Keanu Reeves praises cryptocurrencies
Famed actor Keanu Reeves discussed cryptocurrencies in an interview with Wired, published on Tuesday. The Matrix and John Wick star opined:
I think the principle, the ideas behind a standalone coin are amazing. These are amazing tools for resource sharing and sharing.
“So depreciating cryptocurrency, or cryptocurrency volatility, will only get better in terms of how it is safeguarded,” he added without providing further details.
The Hollywood star previously revealed that he owned cryptocurrency. “A friend of mine bought me one a while back,” she said in December 2021, adding that she hadn’t done anything with it.
Reeves, NFT and the metaverse
Reeves also explained how he became an advisor to the Futureverse Foundation, a charity launched in June last year 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 interested in, so I’m following her. I helped prepare 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 are more land for sale. It is wealth creation and it is opportunity”.
The Matrix star previously expressed skepticism about NFTs, stating that they are “easy to produce.” He, too, was skeptical of Facebook’s metaverse. “Can we just not have a metaverse like the one Facebook invented? The metaverse concept is much older than that,” he said in December 2021.
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