num_pages: 320
description: 175 countries four billion dollars one the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency con in history and the woman behind it allIn 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 Oxford-educated self-styled 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?In The Missing Cryptoqueen  acclaimed tech journalist Jamie Bartlett tells the story he began in his smash hit BBC podcast entering the murky worlds of little-regulated cryptocurrencies and multilevel marketing schemes. Through a globe-crossing investigation into the criminal underworlds corrupt governments and the super-rich he reveals a very modern tale of intrigue techno-hype and herd madness that allowed OneCoin to become a million-person 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.
language: English
title: The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It
publisher: Hachette Books