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 scheme – where, at the top,
investors were making millions and, at the bottom, people were putting their livelihoods at risk.
It’s the inside story of the smartest and biggest scam of the 21st Century – and the genius behind it, who is still on the run.
320 pages.