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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E2: Hunting Ghosts

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

QuadrigaCX collapses and there’s widespread panic. An online sleuth searches for answers through a tangle of websites, hidden identities and a trail of emails. He uncovers a pattern of deception that predates his exchange, linking Gerry to a shadowy underworld of fraudsters. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/a-death-in-cryptoland-transcripts-listen-1.6035764

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0:36.4

On January 14, 2019,

0:39.6

Quadriga CX finally told the public that its CEO Gerald Cotton was dead.

0:45.3

Even before that, customers were already jittery.

0:48.6

For almost a year, the company has been struggling to pay out their clients.

0:53.0

The value of Bitcoin has plummeted and there's been a mad rush to get money off the exchange.

0:59.0

When they start having withdrawal delays, that's when you start worrying and that's when you get your money out.

1:06.8

They couldn't get cash, they couldn't get crypto off the exchange.

1:10.0

It was all falling apart.

1:11.9

And for a whole month, the company appeared to operate as though its CEO weren't gone.

1:17.1

Because like when the news came out, the exchange was still running and they'd made a statement

1:20.7

that like everything's fine, we're not on fire.

1:24.4

That waited a very long time, obviously, to announce his passing.

1:29.3

So I think that's the first kind of shock to the system is that inconsistency between what

1:35.1

that being saying and what had clearly happened. I mean, why wait that long? That's extraordinary.

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