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Good news! Since OneCoin is backmost connected the news and “The Missing Cryptoqueen” already released an 11th episode, proving that they’re backmost for real, we’re going to deed the accelerator. Starting today, we’ll summarize 2 episodes a week to drawback up with the caller developments successful Dr. Ruja’s case. We deed the nail connected the caput connected this one, and there’s thing near to bash but enactment the pedal to the metallic and spot wherever the OneCoin communicative takes us.
In this episode, we larn that OneCoin’s interior slogan was “the top institution ever” and Jamie Bartlett travels to Sofia, Bulgaria, to look astatine Dr. Ruja’s properties. This occurrence is escaped of mafia insinuations. It deals with the cultic aspects of OneCoin’s entrepreneurial civilization instead. We’re besides capable to enactment a fig connected however large of a scam OneCoin truly was. SPOILER ALERT: It was astatine slightest $4B big.
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About OneCoin And “The Missing Cryptoqueen ’s” Episode Three
The astir breathtaking happening astir “The Missing Cryptoqueen” podcast is the consciousness of immediacy it conveys. It’s a surviving and breathing podcast. The communicative was happening each astir Jamie Bartlett and the team. The OneCoin radical respond to “The Missing Cryptoqueen’s” instauration and, done societal media, onslaught the creators with everything they have. And the full country is portion of the podcast. And this is conscionable occurrence three. In the end, they adjacent inquire for the assemblage to telephone and extremity them astir Dr. Ruja’s whereabouts oregon the OneCoin story.
This occurrence starts with Konstantin Ignatov, Dr. Ruja’s younger brother, idiosyncratic assistant, and heir to the OneCoin crown. He was arrested by the FBI and charged with wealth laundering and fraud. The authorities had already declared OneCoin a fraud, even. Surprisingly, erstwhile Bartlett and the squad sojourn the OneCoin headquarters, they recognize that the institution is inactive “open for business.” People are inactive buying OneCoin contempt the information that 1 of their leaders is connected the tally and the different was arrested.
That leads america to the cult-like aspects of the operation. A faith-like content justifies the disappearance of the leaders arsenic a conspiracy to halt OneCoin. In the punctuation below, you volition consciousness the soundlessness portion speechmaking the statement of the organization’s offices. You’ll consciousness the Dr. Ruja worship. It’s conscionable 1 measurement distant from religion and precise adjacent a cult. An adept successful that tract corroborates the hypothesis. Jamie Bartlett describes OneCoin arsenic “less a cryptocurrency and much similar a content system.”
The Devastation That They Caused
At 1 constituent we, erstwhile again, perceive to Dr. Ruja’s ain dependable saying the crypto-scammer’s slogan. “In 2 years nary 1 volition speech astir bitcoin.” If you ever perceive that, run. In the 2nd episode, we figured retired that OneCoin called the critics “haters.” In this one, we larn that the investors and employees are instructed to support distant from them Scientology-style. Another astonishing information is that the 2nd word OneCoin uses the astir to picture its critics is “bitcoiner.” Those pesky bitcoiners, ever causing trouble.
We larn astir the standard of the devastation that Dr. Ruja caused by proceeding astir the OneCoin Victims Support Group. The victims are broken, they’ve mislaid everything and past some. We besides larn astir the standard of the scam by mode of a report/ database that shaper Georgia Catt got her hands on. From each implicit the world, the enactment was getting €60M a week. From August 2014 to March 2017, OneCoin’s gross was implicit €4B. Over €100M were from the UK alone. And that’s wherever the study stopped, the enactment was inactive making wealth near and right.
Quotes From “The Missing Cryptoqueen ’s” Episode Three – “More Than Just A Coin”
An anonymous witnesser describing the OneCoin offices:
“At its peak, it was astir 50 radical moving successful the Sofia office. Ruja’s bureau is connected the 4th floor. You ne'er saw her without the gypsy earrings, the gowns, the jewelry, everything. Even erstwhile she’s conscionable moving successful the office. Inside the Sofia office, the crypto halfway is wherever members of the OneLife web are allowed to conscionable members of the Sofia unit who are important. If you are retired of favor, they won’t fto you in, oregon they’ll support you sitting determination the full day, waiting.
It’s acceptable up astir similar a cathedral. You don’t talk retired loud, you susurration to each other. It’s each acceptable successful acheronian tones, everything is gilded. There was a large cardboard cutout of Ruja. You spot radical touching it and doing that anserine OneCoin motion similar it’s an icon. It’s gone present due to the fact that it yet fell isolated due to the fact that excessively galore radical were touching it. Dr. Ruja! Dr. Ruja! The biggest insult that you tin springiness OneLife is to say: “that’s not Dr. Ruja’s vision.”
Bitcoin-enthusiast Timothy Curry, describing the cult of property down Dr. Ruja:
“There were galore cultish things that the institution did. The repetitive indoctrination. If you look astatine the apical leaders, the mode they dress, the mode that they showed things off. Ceremonial things, astir like, particularly connected stage. Everything, from the philharmonic introductions to Ruja, to the theatrics, they truly did make a worship down her.”
OneCoin Material And Episode Credits
Six years ago, portion OneCoin conquered the world, NewsBTC quoted the infamous Roger Ver speaking connected the case. Then known arsenic a “bitcoin evangelist,” the arguable fig denounced OneCoin for what it is:
“In a caller interview, the proprietor of Bitcoin.com says helium believes OneCoin is simply a fraud, and that investors should ever beryllium wary of caller coins and work up earlier they enactment their wealth successful things they don’t understand:
“There is ne'er a cryptocurrency without a wallet. This sounds similar much grounds of its fraudulent nature. OneCoin isn’t traded connected a azygous speech anyplace successful the satellite arsenic acold arsenic I know.”
OneCoin has been astir for implicit 2 years, but questions surrounding its authenticity proceed to plague the Internet.”
Say what you volition astir Roger Ver, but the antheral was close connected the wealth connected this one.
And finally, the episode’s credits:
Presenter: Jamie Bartlett
Producer: Georgia Catt
Story consultant: Chris Berube
Editor: Philip Sellars
Original euphony and dependable design: Phil Channell
Original euphony and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London Bulgarian Choir
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