It doesn't feel like that there was enough time for them even to really have got any kind of message to you. I don't think we can stopped them, and i don't think any, any amount of any in i've said will override this fear of missing out. It's just about doing things that might slow its growth a little bit. If you could reduce by 30 % one million people that are invest in this, you're saving a fortune. So that's the best i hope for. We're talking of phomo.
Dr Ruja Ignatova, an Oxford-educated, self-styled cryptocurrency guru, promised her followers a financial revolution through her project: OneCoin. Then, in October 2017, she disappeared. But not before she had duped investors around the world, some of whom are the poorest people in society, into buying up more than $4 billion-worth of OneCoin. Ignatova has been in hiding ever since and was recently added to Europol's most wanted list. Jamie Bartlett is an expert on the politics of the internet and has put the story into a podcast series and now a new book, too: The Missing Cryptoqueen. To talk about it all, he joins our host Carl Miller, Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, and Layla Begum, a business development executive who was one of the many victims of the OneCoin scandal.
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