Erica Stanford

Crypto Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

HIGHLY COMMENDED: Business Book Awards 2022 - Specialist Business Book

Crypto is big news. You may be an existing user yourself or have friends that laud its promise of getting rich fast. Arm yourself with the knowledge to come out on top in the crypto wars.

If thousands of people can lose billions of dollars in OneCoin, masterminded by the now infamous Missing Cryptoqueen made famous by the BBC's podcast series and called 'one of the biggest scams in history' by The Times, what makes you think your money is safe? OneCoin isn't alone. Crypto Wars reveals how some of the most shocking scams affected millions of innocent people all around the world with everything from religious leaders to celebrities involved. In this book, you get exclusive access to the back story of the most extreme Ponzi schemes, the most bizarre hoaxes and brutal exit strategies from some of the biggest charlatans of crypto.

Crypto expert and educator, Erica Stanford, will show you how market-wide manipulation schemes, unregulated processes and a new collection of technologies that are often misunderstood, have been exploited to create the wild west of crypto, run by some less than reputable characters. From OneCoin to PonziCoin to Trumpcoin and everything in between, Crypto Wars uncovers the scandals, unpicks the system behind them and allows you to better understand a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize banking and our world for the better.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page eBook
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398600706
• Artikelnr.: 62108128

Autorenporträt

Erica Stanford is a crypto and future of money expert. The founder and CEO of the UK's most recommended crypto networking and events organization, Crypto Curry Club, she publishes the weekly Crypto Currier industry newsletter as well as Blockchain Industry Review. The advisor to several crypto start-ups, she is an in-demand speaker and commentator on the potential and use cases of digital currencies. She is the guest associate lecturer in cryptocurrency at Warwick Business School and has featured in The Express, Finance News, Coin Rivet and on the BBC. She is based in London, England.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
00: Introduction; Chapter
01: The Wild West
Joke and scam projects that still raised millions; Chapter
02: Crypto exit scams; Chapter
03: OneCoin
The missing cryptoqueen; Chapter
04: Bitconnect
The double Ponzi and the elusive, unbeatable trading bot; Chapter
05: Sorry we have run
The $17 billion exit scam; Chapter
06: The faked death, missing millions and requests to exhume a body; Chapter
07: Mt. Gox
Hacks, leaking billions and an unauthorized trading bot; Chapter
08: Crypto mining
Creating nothing out of thin air; Chapter
09: Market manipulation
Crypto pump and dump schemes; Chapter
10: Crypto for the people;

Rezensionen

"An accessible guide to the confusing and fast-growing world of crypto scams. If you're thinking of investing in cryptocurrency, read this first!" Jamie Bartlett, host of BBC podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen, author of The People Vs Tech, The Dark Net, Radicals and The Missing Cryptoqueen, presenter and journalist