No. It is not “for real.”
Maybe it’s time to read this book – Memoirs of Extraordnary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds. Since this (double …) book was first published in 1841, it is in the public domain, and the above hyperlink will give you a number of versions of it including HTML.
The book by Charles Mackay concerned itself especially with “tulip mania,” the famous Dutch swindle which had crashed and burned two hundred years before, in the year 1637. But the fundamental swindle that it describes is always the same, and it is simply repeating itself here.
Something is presented that is “too good to be true,” and dazzling examples are given of people who became fabulously rich overnight, “because they ‘got in’ early.” The irresistible-to-some inducement is to do the same. They’re all told that “everybody is doing it, you’d better hurry up,” and none of them bother to check whether that is actually true.
In this particular incarnation, your virtual “bank account” might swell to phenomenal proportions – which is all well-and-good until you actually try to convert any of it to “legal tender.”
Kindly notice that there is always some kind of “transaction fee,” payable in dollars, which is where the promoters of the scheme get their guaranteed legal tender pure-profit . . . 
The star-struck “marks” barely notice, at the time, because they think they’re really buying something. “Investing,” you know …
And so the con artists run the scam for a little while, then pull the rug out from under the suckers, leaving behind an empty shell-corporation, incorporated on some tiny far-away island with no assets, to take any pointless, helpless lawsuits that may arise.
Interestingly enough, “crypto currencies” in general are another type of scam, so this is really “a scam built on top of a scam.”
“Yes, you’ve been taken to the cleaners … but you washed your own clothes.”
“There’s one of you born every minute, and two to take him.” 
