Jamie Bartlett (Replay): The World’s Biggest Crypto Con

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This is a replay episode with Jamie Bartlett recorded back in 2019, he is the bestselling author of multiple books including The Dark Net and People vs Tech. In this episode we are discussing his podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen, a BBC Sounds podcast described by The Telegraph as ‘the most gripping podcast since Serial’: the podcast uncovers the mysterious story of Dr Ruja Ignatova who persuaded millions to join her financial revolution, a new cryptocurrency called One Coin that turned out to be a scam. Jamie Bartlett and Georgia Catt made the podcast trying to track her down and present a story of greed, deceit and herd madness. Definitely go and listen if you haven't already - and excitingly, Jamie recently revealed that he has written a book too called The Missing Cryptoqueen and it’s been released in June 2022, one to order now! Hope you enjoy listening to this.

Jamie's BBC Sounds podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07nkd84
Jamie's new The Missing Cryptoqueen BOOK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780753559581
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0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. This is a replay episode with Jamie Bartlett.
1:02.9	Recorded back in 2019, he is the best-selling author of multiple books including The Dark Net,
1:08.5	and People vs Tech. In this episode, we're discussing his podcast, The Missing Crypto Queen,
1:14.2	a BBC Sounds podcast described by the Telegraph as the most gripping podcast since serial.
1:19.9	The podcast uncovers the mysterious story of Dr. Rooja Ignatova, who persuaded millions to
1:26.0	join her financial revolution, a new crypto currency called One Coin, that turned out to be a huge scam.
1:32.8	Jamie and Georgia Cat made the podcast, and they tried to track her down, and it's a story of greed
1:38.6	and deceit, which is also just so addictive listening to it, and their storytelling is brilliant.
1:45.0	Definitely going to listen if you haven't already, and very excitingly, Jamie has recently
1:49.3	revealed that he's written a book, too, called The Missing Crypto Queen, and it's released this month
1:54.4	in June 2022, so that's definitely one to pre-order. So I hope you enjoy re-listening to this,
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