This week Amanda and Lauren covered the rise and fall of the crypto king, Gerald Cotten.

Sources:

• CBC: “Quadriga CEO’s widow speaks out over his death and the missing crypto millions” by Cassie Williams with additional reporting by Andrew Chang
• CBC: “Crypto exchange Quadriga was a fraud and founder was running a Ponzi scheme, OSC report finds” by Tara Deschamps
• Coindesk: “Gerald Cotten” by Nikhilesh De
• Vanity Fair: “Ponzi Schemes, Private Yachts, and a Missing $250 Million in Crypto: The Strange Tale of Quadriga” by Nathaniel Rich
• The Independent: “‘Bitcoin widow’ reveals how she fell victim to her own husband’s $215m scam after his mysterious death” by Josh Marcus
• Newsweek: “‘The Crypto King’: Who is Gerald Cotten and Where is Gerry Now?” by Molli Mitchell
• Ontario Securities Commission: “QuadrigaCX” 
• Vancouver Sun: “B.C. seeks forfeiture of money, gold bars linked to failed cryptocurrency company QuadrigaCX” by Gordon Hoekstra
• New York Times: “Crypto-Exchange Says It Can’t Pay Investors Because Its C.E.O. Died, and He Had the Passwords” by Karen Zraick
• Netflix documentary: Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King
• Exit Scam podcast: 8 episode series
• Wikipedia

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