At first sight the news that the FBI have placed Ruja Ignotova - the self titled “Cryptoqueen” - on its Top 10 “most wanted” list, seems to confirm many entrenched views about crypto assets and the people behind them.
Ms Ignotova, a Bulgarian national and sometime London resident who claimed to have invented a cryptocurrency called OneCoin is, along with her accomplices, alleged to have defrauded individuals out of more than $4 billion between August 2014 and March 201...