The Missing Cryptoqueen
Think the concept of cryptocurrency is a bit confusing? So do we! In 2014, Bulgarian-German fraudster Ruja Ignatova banked on that inscrutability when she founded OneCoin, which she pitched as a bigger, better Bitcoin. Within two years, more than 3 million people had joined, as part of a cultish recruitment program, before Ignatova disappeared without a trace. OneCoin ended up being part Ponzi scheme and part pyramid scheme, and the founder was later placed on the FBI’s most wanted list. BBC Sounds host Jamie Bartlett kicked off a hunt for the still-missing criminal, described in his podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen, and turned his reporting into a book of the same name that came out in June.
