In a matter of weeks, the demise of QuadrigaCX, once Canada’s largest Bitcoin exchange, has reached the front pages of mainstream media outlets worldwide. Bloomberg, Reuters, and Fox Business are among the mass of notable outlets that have covered this debacle. While their coverage of this situation has brought things to light that should be known, relatively…
The story of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange CEO who supposedly passed away without disclosing details of how to access the trading venue’s cold storage continues to get deeper the more that emerges about it. Research now suggests that QuadrigaCX never had the amount of Ether claimed in this week’s court hearing. Several aspects of the…
The CEO and founder of the Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX reportedly signed his last will and testament just days before his death. Gerard Cotten passed away in December last year in India and apparently neglected to leave copies of the exchange platform’s cold-storage access, leaving the company and its customers out of pocket. The beneficiary…
QuadrigaCX, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, is in serious trouble – its customers cannot access $150 million worth of crypto funds after the owner and CEO, Gerald Cotton, died of Crohn disease in Jaipur, India. He was the only individual who had access to the”cold wallet reserves.” The exchange reached out to Nova Scotia Supreme Court…