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The Missing Cryptoqueen

The Crypto Con That Fooled the World

Author: Jamie Bartlett  

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The inside story of the biggest business scam of the 21st century, and the hunt for the woman who got away with it.'An astonishing read, plunging you into a toxic world of Insta-wealth, betrayal and ruthless ambition... A con that made Theranos look like small fry' - The Telegraph'The largest financial scam ever' - Fortune'The story of OneCoin stands out even among the outlandish capers of the cryptocurrency era' - Wall Street Journal____In 2014, a brilliant Oxford graduate called Dr Ruja Ignatova vowed to revolutionise money. The self-styled Cryptoqueen launched OneCoin, a bold new cryptocurrency that she promised would earn its investors untold fortunes and change the world. But by the end of 2017, with billions of dollars invested from every country on earth, Ruja Ignatova had disappeared - along with the money.The Missing Cryptoqueen tells the outrageous true story of the world's most wanted woman and the author's five-year hunt for the truth. It is a modern tale of greed, rivalry and herd madness that reveals how OneCoin became the biggest scam of the 21st Century.

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The Missing Cryptoqueen investigates a con that made Theranos look like small fry... The tragic account of how it happened is an astonishing read, plunging you into a toxic world of Insta-wealth, betrayal and ruthless ambition The Telegraph
A great story and a spectacular con The Spectator
Outrageously entertaining... populated with the kind of gaudy crooks, ambitious crackpots and tragically hopeful hustlers we'd expect from a Coen brothers comedy. One can only hope this shocking, compulsively readable story serves as a cautionary tale Irish Times
A story of a very modern scam full of intrigue The i
A gripping read. Jamie Bartlett races through this compelling tale of corruption, ambition and intrigue Irish Independent

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About the Author

Jamie Bartlett is the bestselling author of The Dark Net, Radicals, and The People Vs Tech, which was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and won the 2019 Transmission Prize. He founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos and regularly writes on technology and society for the Spectator, the Sunday Times and elsewhere. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley. His TedTalk about dark net drugs markets has been watched nearly six million times. In 2019 his critically acclaimed BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen reached number 1 on the iTunes charts, and has been downloaded millions of times.

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Product Details

Publisher
Ebury Publishing | W H Allen
Published
29th June 2023
Pages
320
ISBN
9780753559598

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