CEO’s suspicious death sparks a $215M crypto mystery | Dead Man’s Switch (Full Documentary, 2021)A thirty-year-old CEO responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency and cash dies suddenly in India and $215 million disappears, kicking off a major scandal and fueling speculation that his exit was only one of many scams. Where’s the money, Gerry? On November 30, 2018, Gerald Cotten, then CEO of QuadrigaCX, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, traveled to India to open an orphanage and celebrate his honeymoon. Nine days later, he was allegedly dead due to Crohn’s disease – and $215 million in cash and cryptocurrency was suddenly missing. A month later, when his widow, Jennifer Robertson, announced his death to the world via a post on the Quadriga exchange website, creditors, journalists, regulators, and cryptocurrency enthusiasts alike jumped on the story. They were determined to get to the bottom of what happened to Gerry and who held the keys to the fortunes of 115,000 creditors. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00:00 – Introduction ▷ 0:04:17 – First Bitcoin ATM ▷ 0:05:43 – Gerald Cotten and Michael Patryn ▷ 0:12:22 – QuadrigaCX fails to go public ▷ 0:14:15
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