CRYPTO CROOKS: Season 1 – BitConnect Podcast Trailer

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

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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. - Chainalysis is a blockchain data platform. We provide data, software, services, and research to government agencies, web3 companies, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies. Our data powers investigation, compliance, and business intelligence software that has been used to solve some of the world’s most high-profile criminal cases. For more information, visit www.chainalysis.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	In the wake of one of the most radical financial experiments in modern history, criminals scrambled to hide their wealth.
0:14.9	He literally said, I'm taking away those banknotes to cut black money to end corruption,
0:19.2	and the country just spiraled into chaos
0:21.8	immediately.
0:23.3	One man created what looked like an escape route, but it became the most notorious cryptocurrency
0:30.1	scam of all time.
0:34.9	Listen up, you didn't lose your money.
0:38.9	Technically, you kind of lost your money.
0:42.6	$2.4 billion.
0:45.3	Thousands of victims.
0:47.1	Mysterious deaths.
0:48.7	Untold misery worldwide.
0:51.8	But who were the victims and who were the crooks?
0:55.0	I do believe that Craig Grant and Trayvon and all those guys, even Crypto-Nick, I do believe
0:59.5	they all knew it was a scam, but you know, when money's involved, it's hard to turn it down.
1:06.4	You know the name, you know the memes, but do you know the real story? Whatso, what's, wasso, whatso, whatso, whatso, Wastro, so, Wastrook
1:16.6	Follow the trail of destruction and lies when Coin desk presents Crypto Crooks. Season 1, BitConnect.

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