Is Quadriga's Gerald Cotten Still Alive? The 'Exit Scam' Podcast Aims to Answer - Ep.248

Aaron Lammer, author and host of the Exit Scam podcast, recounts the mysterious and controversial death of QuadrigaCX’s founder Gerald Cotton. Show highlights:
● A quick recap of QuadrigaCX
● why Aaron felt compelled to create a series on QuadrigaCX
● how Gerald Cotton, a lifelong Ponzi-addict, came to be the CEO of Canada’s largest crypto exchange
● what Ponzi-schemes Gerald ran before starting Quadriga CX
● why customers trusted QuadrigaCX and what red flags were readily apparent looking back
● the sketchy tactic Gerald used to single-handedly boosted QuadrigaCX’s trading volume by 30%
● a new wife, empty wallets, a hastily written will, and the circumstances surrounding Gerald’s shocking death
● how Gerald’s dark web background might have prepared him to fake his own death
● what the chances are that Canadian authorities exhume Gerald’s body
● why Aaron is skeptical Gerald’s widow was “in” on the QuadrigaCX fiasco

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Episode Links

Aaron Lammer
Co-founder of Longform.org + co-host of Longform Podcast (2010+)
Treats Media -- podcast platform (2018+)
Exit Scam
CoinTalk:   / cointalk  

Podcast
Twitter:   / exitscampod  

Episodes:
The Lost Password
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
The Co-Founder
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
The Ponzi Schemer
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
The Chris Markay Account
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
The Old Friend
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
The Coffin
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Quadriga
Deep Dives:
CBC News
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longf...
Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/...
Amy Castor timeline
https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-...
Ontario Securities Commission
https://www.osc.gov.on.ca/quadrigacxr...

Details
Ontario Securities Commission deems Quadriga an “old fashioned fraud” + “Ponzi”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/...
https://www.coindesk.com/quadriga-was...
Crypto officially recognized as property in Canada due to this case
https://www.lexology.com/library/deta...
Fun Reddit stuff
Is a Gerald Cotten alive? -- a poll:
  / is_gerald_cotten_really_dead  
Graphic connecting Michael Patryn to Omar Dhanani
  / quadrigacx_cofounder_michael_patryn_is_a  
Lawyers publicly request that RCMP exhume Gerald Cotten’s body
https://www.coindesk.com/lawyers-ramp...
Report on Gerald Cotten transferring funds into a personal account
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked...

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