BBC pulls doco as doubts emerge over trader who turned $50 into $8M

cointelegraph.com:

The BBC has pulled a documentary focused on a 20-year-old crypto trader who supposedly turned $50 into an $8 million fortune last year.

The doco was titled “The Crypto Millionaire” and followed the story of Birmingham-based Hanad Hassan, who claims to have made a return of around 16,000,000% in one year from trading unspecified crypto assets.

The story was set to be broadcast this week and explore how Hassan had started to give back to the community following his newfound wealth, however the show was canned after the Guardian reported on Feb. 10 that it had raised concerns with the BBC’s research:

“The BBC swiftly said it had withdrawn the show but did not make any further comment on its editorial checks,” wrote The Guardian’s media editor Jim Waterson.

In a now-deleted promotional story for the documentary on the BBC’s website (that can still be found via web.archive.org), it reported that Hassan had initially turned $50 into $1 million in Q1 2021, before going on to co-found his own “special cryptocurrency” that donates all of its profits to charity.

It is unclear how Hassan made the remaining $7 million of the reported $8 million figure, as the BBC did not specify the details behind his “net worth” and how he generated the money between Q1 and Q4 2021.

According to Coinmarketcap, Hasan’s ORFANO token was released on April 2, 2021, and had a 6% tax on all transactions using the asset. Out of the tax generated from the token, 2% of it was allocated to a wallet address for charity donations. There is no listed price history for the token, however the BBC reported that OFRANO donated $200,000 to charity last year from its profits.

Looking at posts from the r/Orfano community on social media platform Reddit, it appears that