Australian actress Margot Robbie, who performs the lead function within the new Barbie film, has brought on a stir throughout the crypto neighborhood after stating that speaking about Bitcoin (BTC) displays related traits to Barbie’s companion, Ken.

Within the final 24 hours, the crypto neighborhood on X (Twitter), together with MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor and social media influencer Layah Heilpern, had a combined response to Robbie’s assertion about Bitcoin in an interview with Fandango on June 22.

Robbie revealed that each time she overheard her husband, Tom Ackerley, and tv producer, David Heyman, discussing Bitcoin on set, it delivered to thoughts the traits of Ken, the fictional co-star character in Barbie, performed by Ryan Gosling.

“When David and Tom would begin speaking about Bitcoin or one thing, Gretta and I might be like, you’re being such Kens!”

Together with Saylor declaring that Bitcoin is, actually, “Large Ken Power,” a number of different outstanding figures within the crypto trade shared their ideas on Robbie’s feedback.

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Crypto influencer Lea Thompson, higher identified to her 225,000 Twitter followers as Woman Gone Crypto, acknowledged that she is “so bullish” after listening to Robbie discuss Bitcoin.

In the meantime, Layah Heilpern perceived Robbie’s remarks in another way, suggesting that she interpreted it as an insult towards males who discuss Bitcoin.

On July 30, Heilpern defined to her 621,400 Twitter followers that Robbie implied male Bitcoin fans are “weak and pathetic.”

Nevertheless, Mark Travers, lead psychologist at Awake Remedy, instructed that having Ken’s vitality may very well be an indication of somebody who’s selfless and may adapt to completely different conditions.

Travers acknowledged in a July 13 Forbes report that the character of Ken challenges conventional gender stereotypes.

“In a universe which revolves round Barbie, Ken has solely a supportive function to play, and he performs it gladly,” Travers acknowledged, including:

“Barbie is and comes at the start, we see male counterpart Ken relegated to the uni-dimensional and purely aesthetic function that girls have usually been confined to previously, in a flippant and parody-like method.”

Robbie acknowledged within the interview that it’s arduous to outline what makes a Ken or what provides off Ken vitality, as it may be subjective. 

“It’s not one thing you’ll be able to outline; it’s simply one thing you’ll be able to sense,” Robbie acknowledged.

With a way of optimism, Steven Lubka, a managing director at Swan Bitcoin, perceived Robbie’s remark as a positive for the crypto neighborhood. 

Lubka advised his 20,200 Twitter followers on July 29 that “we’re so again.“

Robbie’s feedback on Bitcoin have been temporary and impartial, happening as there are ongoing authorized actions towards celebrities who’ve just lately promoted crypto.

Most just lately, NBA Miami Warmth star Jimmy Butler sought to be removed from a $1 billion class-action lawsuit alleging the promotion of unregistered securities by cryptocurrency alternate Binance.

In a July 24 submitting, Butler’s attorneys argued that the tweets he appeared in didn’t promote the named securities, and, due to this fact, couldn’t have helped promote them. 

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, in addition to YouTubers Ben Armstrong (BitBoy Crypto) and Graham Stephan, are additionally difficult related allegations in the identical lawsuit.

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