Into the HyperVerse: inside a crypto scheme that cost investors millions of dollars – documentary

When Guardian Australia senior reporter Sarah Martin heard a friend’s hairdresser had invested in a cryptocurrency scheme called HyperVerse and potentially lost all her money, she decided to investigate. She soon found many more members of the scheme, in Australia and around the world. A person in the UK had lost £1m from the sale of his home that he’d put into HyperVerse; an Australian who had recruited his mates lost $100,000 – and lost his friendships too. In this short documentary, interviews with former HyperVerse participants are woven through Sarah’s recounting of the rabbit hole she fe

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