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$2.4 billion lost. Thousands of victims. Mysterious deaths. Untold misery worldwide. You know the name. You know the memes. But do you know the real story? Welcome to “Crypto Crooks” Season 1: BitConnect, launching Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 5 a.m. EST. Follow and subscribe to “Crypto Crooks” wherever you listen to podcasts.
For our first season, we are focusing on easily the most notorious crypto scam of all – BitConnect. Between 2016 and 2018, alongside a surging mania for “Initial Coin Offerings,” BitConnect siphoned away an immense amount of capital its customers intended to invest in cryptocurrency.
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