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Event April 8, 2019 Added September 22, 2026 Updated October 11, 2026 Biography

Gerald Cotten (1988–2018) — Ran a decade of Ponzi schemes before QuadrigaCX, then took its keys to his grave

Gerald Cotten

Gerald Cotten ran online Ponzi schemes as a teenager, founded QuadrigaCX in 2013, and defrauded its customers for years before dying in India in 2018 with the only copies of its keys.

Event April 8, 2019 Added June 2, 2026 Updated October 13, 2026 Article

QuadrigaCX collapse — Gerald Cotten's death and C$250M in inaccessible cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Gerald Cotten

Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX collapsed after CEO Gerald Cotten died in India (Dec 2018). C$250M owed to ~115,000 customers became inaccessible. The OSC later ruled it was a long-running fraud.