Podcast Corner: Bitcoin mystery with €215m at stake provides fodder for two new shows
Bitcoin is at the heart of several interesting podcasts.
Gerald Cotten was 30 when he died on his honeymoon in India in autumn 2018. He and his wife Jennifer were planning on visiting an orphanage they had sponsored, but Cotten, who had a history of Crohn’s disease, would be pronounced dead within 24 hours of arriving in Jaipur, having suffered stomach pains and then cardiac arrest.
Cotten had helped co-found the largest bitcoin exchange in Canada, Quadriga CX; when he died, it had 65,000 customers with $215m stored in accounts. He was also the only full-time employee of the company - and the only person who knew the password to the cryptocurrency.
