📍 Canada, 2018.
The largest exchange in the country — QuadrigaCX — is operating at full capacity. It has 115,000 clients and hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. But in December 2018, a shock occurs:
👉 Founder Gerald Cotten suddenly dies in India from Crohn's disease.
👉 He was the only one who knew the passwords to the cold wallets.
🚫 Result: $250+ million disappeared along with him.
The wallets turned out to be inaccessible.
🕵️♂️ It later turned out that Cotten used clients' funds for trading on third-party exchanges and kept double books.
📢 Many still do not believe in his death:
The body was cremated in India, the documents are murky. Some are convinced he faked his death and disappeared with the money...
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