https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49826161
A very interesting article and podcast about about a woman who was promoting her crypto, OneCoin, raking in billions of dollars/pounds and then she disappeared.
Hard for mere mortals like me to separate scams from investment opportunities. I was told many years ago though, that if you don't understand it, find something else to invest in.
Interesting link. I find cryptocurrency stories enticing and although there is a lot of money that can be made, there are a lot of scams, too. Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/tezos-blockchain-love-story-horror-story/) has a much longer separate story of what they call a crypto-tragedy told in three acts, for those that also enjoy this sort of thing.
Here is a YouTube Link to all 8 episodes of this BBC audio show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyG9sMByafw&list=UU2dUXK9yzf53Z8AUEt8ZZEQ
You can use the 4K YouTube downloader program to download all the episodes at once. Just make sure to change the 4K menu settings to an audio download and I slected MP3 as the format. Using MP3 I am able to listen to the whole series on my tiny MP3 player.
So many crypto-concurrency con artists out there. Creditors want to exhume a body here (https://www.wired.com/story/creditors-exhume-body-of-dead-crypto-executive/) to get their money back. Thanks for sharing, ssfc.