Seems a bit suspicious that Gerald Cotten was the only one that had access to these coins. It is really hard to believe.<\/span><\/p>\nBut the whole enigma about crypto exchange QuadrigaCX become weirder because they claimed they used multi-sign wallets.<\/p>\n
It looks entirely as the result of poor governance and processes and that’s why we need regulated exchanges.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Founder of QuadrigaCX, 30-year-old Gerald Cotten, unexpectedly had died in December while in India, from Crohn\u2019s disease. He reportedly had sole access to the cold wallet. QuadrigaCX owes its customers $190 million and cannot access most of the funds. According to a Jan. 31 affidavits filed by his widow Jennifer Robertson and dug up by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1004],"tags":[743,76,744,745],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies-overviews","category-latest-financial-news","tag-cold-walet","tag-crypto","tag-gerald-cotten","tag-quadrigacx"],"yoast_head":"\n
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