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First of all, I find this whole thing sad and hilarious -- I have been speaking up against calling it "investing in cryptocurrency" because a) it's gambling not
by chx 8y ago
First of all, I find this whole thing sad and hilarious -- I have been speaking up against calling it "investing in cryptocurrency" because a) it's gambling not investing b) it's not a currency. Nonetheless, this entire thing stinks.
1. Sudden death from Chron's disease is not unheard of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9780667 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9780667 but it's described as a "rare complication".
2. Where is the address of this cold storage so people can see the coins not moving since the alleged death? I know people are trying to figure out the address based on transactions from the hot wallet but if there is some tumbling involved it'll be hard / impossible.
3. In this 2015 article https://archive.is/Gw2x9 https://archive.is/Gw2x9
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Cotten, in turn, spoke to Quadriga’s security strengths, noting that the exchange uses multi-signature cold storage to secure bitcoin holdings.
This directly contradicts the claim only he had the key.