Cryptocurrency: Has The Bubble Burst? (Channel 4 Tuesday 9 August, 2022)

In Cryptocurrency: Has The Bubble Burst?, Ade Adepitan finds out how to make money in the high-stakes crypto market – and how easy it is to lose it all. An estimated three million Brits have invested in cryptocurrency. But many of us – like Ade – don’t really understand how it works. To discover how crypto can make you rich and how to avoid its many pitfalls, Ade seeks advice from people with very different experiences of the crypto world – the believers and the sceptics. Ade even invests some of his own hard-earned cash, unaware that the cryptocurrency market is about to undergo a massive crash. Is this the end of the cryptocurrency dream?

Or is it just a temporary downturn in this volatile new market? On a country estate in the Cotswolds, Ade meets multi-millionaire Jon Joseph Bourgerie, who is so convinced that crypto is the future of money, he’s sunk $1 million into it. In east London, Ade visits 23-year-old grime artist Tarm, who says crypto changed his life. But not everyone is convinced that crypto is a force of good.

Ex-City trader Gary Stevenson thinks crypto is a dangerous pyramid scheme: ‘People who buy Lamborghinis with crypto, they put it on Instagram; and people who lose their life savings don’t.’ And lawyer Charlotte Hill warns of the high risk of being scammed in the crypto market.

Prod/Dir: Sam Palmer; Prod: Beth Read; Exec Prod: David Wise; Prod Co: Parable

Airdate: Tuesday 9 August 2022 at 10.00pm on Channel 4.