The Missing Cryptoqueen Audiobook Libro.fm

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175 countries four billion dollars one scam the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency con in history and the woman behind it all

In 2016 on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans Dr Ruja Ignatova promised her followers a financial revolution The future she said belonged to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin And the Oxfordeducated selfstyled cryptoqueen vowed that she had invented the Bitcoin Killer OneCoin would not only earn its investors untold fortunes it would change the world

By March 2017 more than 4 billion had been invested in OneCoin in countries all around the world But by October 2017 Ruja Ignatova had disappeared and it slowly became clear that her revolutionary cryptocurrency was not all it seemed Fortune was left asking Is OneCoin the biggest financial fraud in history

InThe Missing Cryptoqueen acclaimed tech journalist Jamie Bartlett tells the story he began in his smash hit BBC podcast entering the murky worlds of littleregulated cryptocurrencies and multilevel marketing schemes Through a globecrossing investigation into the criminal underworlds corrupt governments and the superrich he reveals a very modern tale of intrigue technohype and herd madness that allowed OneCoin to become a millionperson pyramid schemewhere at the top investors were making millions and at the bottom people were putting their livelihoods at risk Its the inside story of the smartest and biggest scam of the 21st Centuryand the genius behind it who is still on the run