Keanu Reeves, famous for his role in “The Matrix” media franchise, has called cryptocurrencies “amazing tools for exchanges and distribution of resources.”
According to a report by Stephen Graves for Decrypt, in a recent interview with Wired, the actor said he found “amazing” the “ideas behind an independent currency.”
Reeves went on to say:
“To pooh-pooh crypto, or the volatility of cryptocurrency, it’s only going to make it better in terms of how it’s safeguarded.”
Reeves has always been associated with technology, being a part of a franchise that has predicted several emerging tech trends, from artificial intelligence to the metaverse.
Reeves is particularly interested in the implications of AI and NFTs in digital art technologies, stating that people are growing up with tools such as NFT digital art and music made using AI. However, despite the cool factor of these tools, Reeves is worried about the corporatocracy behind them that’s looking to control them.
In “The Matrix,” Neo fights for what is real, and the actor says that “culturally, socially, we’re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the nonvalue.”
Reeves has recently become involved in the NFT space, becoming an adviser for The Futureverse Foundation, a digital art charity backed by NFT projects Non-Fungible Labs and Fluf World. The foundation aims to provide opportunities to artists with different viewpoints, making the metaverse accessible to more people, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds.
When asked about the metaverse, Reeves responded that companies such as Meta had created more land, wealth creation, and opportunity, but it’s still a system of control and manipulation.
Reeves has not been very active in the crypto space, stating in December 2021 during an interview with The Verge — for the promotion of the movie “The Matrix Resurrections” — that he has “a little HODL” after a friend purchased some crypto for him, but he has not done anything with it because he had not needed to do.
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