Ep06- DealShaker – Companion Guide For BBC’s “The Missing Cryptoqueen” Podcast
03 November 2022 - 9:20PM
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Believe it or not, the DealShaker marketplace is still working. The
commerce arm of the OneCoin empire, DealShaker provided a clear and
verifiable use case for OneCoin as a currency. The token was real
because you could use it to buy things in a specific e-commerce
store. Oh, those were the days. The greatest thing about
exploring OneCoin and Dr. Ruja’s story is that it reflects how
naive the crypto world actually was just a few years ago. In many
ways, it still is. In “The Missing Cryptoqueen’s” sixth
episode, we travel to the past. It’s titled “The Überflieger”
referring to a “high-flying” person. That’s how teachers of the
past described Dr. Ruja, who was definitely the star in all of her
classes and was respected and hated for it. What else can Jamie and
Georgia learn about Ruja Ignatova by tracing her steps? Let’s find
out. Remember, you can download episodes directly from the BBC, or
listen to “The Missing Cryptoqueen” through Apple, Spotify, or
iVoox. About “The Missing Cryptoqueen,” Episode Six – “The
Überflieger” Our blast from the past episode starts in 2009, five
years before OneCoin and DealShaker. Bitcoin was entering the scene
and so was Dr. Ruja, who bought a factory in Germany. Jamie and
Georgia visit the site in 2019 and interview the survivors of that
story. They tell them that Ruja Ignatova got there, impressed
everybody, and made a lot of promises that she didn’t keep. After
that, she disappeared, effectively rug-pulling everybody.
Interesting fact, both her father and her mother worked at the
factory. Which suggests Ruja Ignatova is a family woman. When
Dr. Ruja disappeared, the factory offices were broken into and a
lot of documents went missing, along with her. The factory workers
that the podcast interviewed all seem to think that this was staged
and that Dr. Ruja took and destroyed some important documents.
“It’s exactly the same story,” one of them says comparing OneCoin
and DealShaker to the factory in question. When things got tough,
Ruja Ignatova sold the company and disappeared. The factory remains
closed to this day. In the next section’s second quote, you’ll
sense the magnitude of that first case against Dr. Ruja. She paid
the fine and kept it pushing. And, according to the factory
workers, she learned that the next time she was going to have to
disappear for real. Quotes From “The Missing Cryptoqueen,”
EpisodeSix – “The Überflieger” In what appears a diary entry, we
learn about the young Ruja Ignatova: “Ruja was always friendly to
everyone. She was always well behaved and cheerful, and the
teachers were deeply fond of her. She doesn’t drink and she would
never degrade herself to eating pizza. Her favorite classes were
“p,” she was faultless, and now and then she likes “ari.”
Generally, she got on very well with her colleagues. Stop. Maybe we
should stick to the truth. Okay, fine. Maybe I did take pleasure in
tormenting some students. I was always looking for the chance to
spread new amusing stories about them.” This quote summarizes the
consequences of Ruja’s first fraud: “This time, the law caught up
with Dr. Ruja. In 2016, she was convicted in a German court for
several crimes. Intentional breach of duty in the event of
insolvency, fraud, withholding an embezzlement of employees’ wages,
and violation of accounting duties, She received a 14-month
suspended sentence and an €18,000 fine. The local newspaper
reported that Ruja reappeared to attend the ruling and showed no
emotion when the judgment was passed down. She quietly slipped out
and returned to Bulgaria, and carried on with OneCoin as if nothing
had happened.” More About Dr. Ruja’s Past Later in the episode,
Jamie and Georgia confirm that Ruja really got a PHD. “She’s
smart,” Georgia says. Then, Multi-Level Marketing makes a second
appearance. We learn that in 2014, Ruja Ignatova tried to sell…
wait for it… bitcoin using MLM techniques. The producers introduce
Sebastian Greenwood, a Multi-Level Marketing expert that seems to
have created the Dr. Ruja character with Ignatova. She had the
charisma, he had the technique. They just needed a product they
could control. Last but not least, we meet Duncan. He once was an
integral part of the OneLife organization and it’s the mind behind
DealShaker. He says everything in there is rubbish and challenges
Jamie to find five things he wants and can pay in OneCoin only.
Jamie goes through DealShaker and realizes the already shady
characters that sell products through the platform mostly want
Euros. Is DealShaker really a OneCoin market? At the end of the
episode, a private detective that the production hired apparently
found a lady that could be Ruja Ignatova in Athens. Could it be?
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TradingView.com Extra Material: OneCoin Responds To The FCA
Approximately six years ago, the Financial Conduct Authority of the
United Kingdom issued a warning against OneCoin. The company
responded and NewsBTC reported the story: “In the statement,
OneCoin has called itself a global software and technology company
with offices in Bulgaria, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates.
The company has also described OneCoin has a digital currency
sharing few features with existing cryptocurrencies. These
similarities are confined to the maintenance of all transaction
records on a database. The digital currency company, in the last
paragraph of the statement, expresses its full cooperation,
“OneCoin is committed to following good business practices and the
relevant rules and regulations in the countries in which it
operates. It will co-operate fully with the authorities in pursuit
of this objective.” Episode Credits Presenter: Jamie Bartlett
Producer: Georgia Catt Story consultant: Chris Berube Editor:
Philip Sellars Original music and sound design: Phil Channell
Original music and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London
Bulgarian Choir Previous Companion Guides For BBC’s “The Missing
Cryptoqueen” Podcast: Ep. 01 –
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/ep01-dr-ruja-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/
Ep. 02 –
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/ep02-btc-killer-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/
Ep. 03 –
https://www.newsbtc.com/altcoin/ep03-onecoin-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/
Ep. 04 –
https://www.newsbtc.com/scams-and-fraud/ep04-onelife-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/
Ep. 05 –
https://www.newsbtc.com/scams-and-fraud/ep05-mlm-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/
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