The Missing Cryptoqueen
  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9780753559598
  • Imprint: WH Allen
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

The Missing Cryptoqueen

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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
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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.
  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9780753559598
  • Imprint: WH Allen
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Jamie Bartlett

Jamie Bartlett is the bestselling author of The Dark Net, Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World and The People Vs Tech, which was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and won the 2019 Transmission Prize. He is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos. He also writes on technology for the Spectator, the Telegraph and for several other publications on how the internet is changing politics and society. In 2017 Jamie presented the two-part BBC TWO documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley. He lives in London.

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Praise for The Missing Cryptoqueen

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 gripping read. Jamie Bartlett races through this compelling tale of corruption, ambition and intrigue

Irish Independent

Bartlett skilfully [presents] OneCoin's turbulent history like a thriller

Reaction (Books Digest)

A story of a very modern scam full of intrigue

The i

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
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