There's no doubt that pretty much everyone wants to be a millionaire, but unfortunately, money

can't be summoned out of thin air. Or can it? In 2014, the unknown Dr. Ruja Ignatova came out

of nowhere with promises that everyone could make millions with a fabulous new invention

of her very own creation.

Dr. Ruja may not be a household name, but she subsequently reached a level of fame and

fortune that most of us can only dream of.

That is, until on October 7, 2017, something happened that nobody could explain.

Dr. Ruja disappeared without a trace.

But what happened?

Where did she go?

And why did all this land her on the FBI's most wanted list?

This is a story of glamour, greed, and a global scam worth $15 billion.

So grab your detective hats as we follow the trail

to investigate the world's most wanted scammer that nobody can find.

You're listening.

You're listening's been amazed.

Before we get into Ruja's story, we need a little understanding of the thing that made her rich, which is the wacky world of cryptocurrency.

But now everyone has heard of Bitcoin, but you may not know how it all started. Not long after the global financial crisis of 2008, the term Bitcoin was used for the first time on an online forum by a mysterious user under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Satoshi's view was that banks had too much power, and he'd come up with a solution.

A new currency system that wasn't controlled by governments, made legitimate by the use of

blockchain technology, which we'll discuss more later.

Nakamoto began building the coding framework for his cryptocurrency and the rest, as they say, is history.

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