Programme about ‘self-made crypto-millionaire’ dropped amid questions over central claims
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The
BBC has pulled a documentary about a
cryptocurrency entrepreneur from television schedules at the last minute after the Guardian raised questions about some of its central claims.
The programme, called The Crypto-Millionaire and due to be broadcast at 7.30pm on Wednesday night, was to tell the story of Hanad Hassan, a 20-year-old from Birmingham who said he had become incredibly wealthy by trading cryptocurrencies. The programme claimed he had turned a $50 (£37) investment at the start of 2021 into $8m (£5.9m) by the end of the year – suggesting he had made an astonishing investment return of almost 16,000,000% in just nine months.