Looks at the original crypto cowboy Brock Pierce, a former Disney Channel child star, and his long and shady journey through the crypto-sphere.
Glaidson dos Santos is the Bitcoin Pharaoh, serving time in jail on three counts of murder, racketeering and money laundering. The locals in Cabio Frio, Brazil, call him a crypto hero, but rival crypto dealers consider him a monster.
Examines IM Academy, accused of being the first-ever crypto cult, a global pyramid scheme using cryptocurrency as a lure to suck in money out of the world's wide-eyed youth, selling dreams of both easy wealth and membership in a new world order.
Joel Ortiz, a former valedictorian, gets arrested with $250k in stolen cryptocurrency. REACT tracks his flaunting on social media, revealing a $7.5m theft from 40 victims, but is uncertain if he acted alone or was part of a criminal organisation.
In Argentina, Leonardo Cositorto, a life-long scammer and con artist, seizes the new opportunity of selling crypto hot air, fake gold and a whole fake cryptocurrency ecosystem. However, he ends up in prison.
Virgil Griffith, a prominent programmer from Alabama, known for his work on Ethereum, illegally travels to North Korea to speak at a crypto conference. The FBI suspects deeper motives and he is imprisoned for conspiring with North Korea.