News 1. QuadrigaCX The biggest tech story of the year so far happened right here in Nova Scotia, and it’s amazing. When 30-year-old Fall River resident Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly, the location of some $260 million in cash and cryptocurrency went to the grave with him. Writer Andrew Wright tells us: A 25-year-old Gerald Cotten and […]
The $260 million QuadrigaCX mystery
When 30-year-old Fall River resident Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly, the location of some $260 million in cash and cryptocurrency went to the grave with him.
The first clue something was wrong to users of QuadrigaCX, Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was when its website was suddenly replaced by a website maintenance notice last week. What QuadrigaCX’s 363,000 clients, 115,000 of them carrying balances in their accounts, would soon learn was the only person who knew where some $260 million of their money was and how...