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In this week's episode of Holy Smoke Damian is joined by Jamie Bartlett, one of the world\u2019s leading experts on the dark web, radical politics and technology, whose gripping podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen is currently being broadcast by the BBC. It tells the story of a shady Bulgarian tech entrepreneur, Dr Ruja Ignatova, who vanished just as her dodgy cryptocurrency OneCoin was raking in billions of euros from investors \u2013 or true believers \u2013 all over the world.
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\n\n\nDespite her disappearance, it still has footholds in African villages, the Chinese business community, Scottish housing estates and Britain\u2019s Muslims \u2013 it claims to be Sharia-compliant. Not only does Dr Ruja's operation resemble a religious cult, it also gives us a glimpse of how technology and belief are combining in ever stranger patterns, often inspired by the utopians of Silicon Valley.
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\nPresented by Damian Thompson.
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