When Gerald Cotten, the blockchain mage and founder of what was then Canada’s largest cryptome exchange, died unexpectedly in 2018, hundreds of millions of dollars from troubled investors suddenly disappeared into a cryptic space to which only Cotten had access.
However, when banks, journalists and the Reddite account holders decided to track down the cash, it turned out that, in addition to Cotten’s shocking death, questions suddenly hung over who Gerald Cotten actually was.
Apart from the brutal fall of the cryptocurrencies, something much worse awaited them
In 2018, the first of the hardest downfalls of the entire cryptomen market came, and many people in the initial “boom” and the effort to get rich quick reached even high and unfavorable loans. Many of them fell to the hard bottom and their crypto wallets showed huge losses. However, the worst was still waiting for the clients of the largest Canadian cryptomen exchange, QuadrigaCX.
A classically inconspicuous “nerd” with an unwavering smile
Gerald Cotten belonged to a group of technology magicians at the turn of the last decade and today he could happily bask on the imaginary beach among the richest people in the crypto sector, such as Changpeng Zhao, founder of the largest cryptomen exchange Binance or Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the etherea billion dollars.
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Friends described Cotten as an inconspicuous “nerd” who was most characterized by his unwavering smile and pale skin, as if she had not seen the light since his puberty.
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