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For some reason this sounds like the plot of a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. CEO of Crypto Company... 1) Takes time off to build orphanage in region noted
by uberman 8y ago
For some reason this sounds like the plot of a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
CEO of Crypto Company...
1) Takes time off to build orphanage in region noted for fake deaths.
2) Subsequently dies unexpectedly.
3) Is immediately cremated.
4) Wife waits a month before saying "oh by the way he is dead"
5) Wife claims all keys on encrypted laptop
6) World watches as wallets mysteriously empty
7) Experts crack laptop
8) All wallets turn up in fact empty
9) $140 million disappears into the ether
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- rchaud 8y agoDiCaprio? This whole affair has been at best a Weekend at Bernie's-level plot. The accounts were emptied 8 months before the death, and yet QCX pretended they were solvent the whole time so they could keep the party going.
- stuntkite 8y agoIn the sequel his ghost solves blocks when you play a latin rhythm and two young/broke computer enthusiasts who moved to Puerto Rico to make it big are the only ones who can see him because they smoked weed that grew in soil mixed with his ashes.
- jjoonathan 8y agoThey should make that one first, because unlike the documentary I'd actually pay to see it.
- CosmicShadow 8y agoHarold & Kumar go Crypto
- CosmicShadow 8y agoThis is one of the best comments I've ever seen on HN, oh my god this movie would be awesome!
- stuntkite 8y agoThis is both one of the dumbest and most upvoted things I've ever posted to HN. I mean, I think it's funny.... but the reasons I think it's funny make me really sad and all the internet points makes me sadder.
- rangibaby 8y agoHow High: Blockchain Edition
- karlstanley 8y agoWould legit watch this movie.
- DSingularity 8y agoThe Great Gatsby...
- Workaholic_87 8y agoMore like Basketball Diaries....a bunch of junkies using and abusing
- bredren 8y agoThis is an unnecessary takedown of Weekend at Bernie's.
- stcredzero 8y agoDiCaprio? This whole affair has been at best a Weekend at Bernie's-level plot. I think it would be best done with the production values of "Catch Me If You Can."
- james_s_tayler 8y agoCrypto me outside
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- maxander 8y agoPerhaps blockchains’ lasting impact will be as an overused plot device in future period pieces set in the early 21st century.
- quickthrower2 8y agoAnd making blockchain to SQL Server migration consultants wealthy too.
- jessaustin 8y agoWe would have believed postgres, but that's just far-fetched.
- maxander 8y agoBlockchain to CSV, realistically.
- quickthrower2 8y agoThis is an enterprise solution. Oracle is even better.
- pratnala 8y agocosmos db is where it is at
- drewblaisdell 8y ago> region noted for fake deaths There is a place that is known for this specifically? Where can I read more about this?
- selimthegrim 8y agoThere are several documentaries on YouTube exploring how easy it is to fake death certificates in, say, Delhi. Search for ‘quacks’
- TrevorJ 8y agodidn't initially get in hits for that search term that were relevant, what am I looking for?
- selimthegrim 8y agohttps://www.scamcities.com/scam-city-season-1-episode-6-new-delhi/ https://www.scamcities.com/scam-city-season-1-episode-6-new-...
- uberman 8y agoGoogle for "fake death mafia"
- ihattendorf 8y agoI didn't find much besides talk of the CEO, and your comment (which is the 4th result).
- gowld 8y agoBefore YouTube/cruptocurrency got big, Delhi was known for its counterfeit industry for winning "first to invent" patent fights. There are companies that have stocks of decades or century-old paper that they use to forge aged government documents. I can't find a link to a story at the moment :-(
- 8y ago
- droithomme 8y agoGreat summary, thanks, that was genuinely helpful.
- tim333 8y agoAnd the widow is left with just the 17 properties, 2 cars, yacht and plane that he earned through honest hard work. Another thing you could work into the plot is $9m appears to be with WB21 "Banking Redefined" which claimed a million users but was discovered to only have 135 downloads of its app (now removed), is run by a convicted fraudster and was awarded "Global Banker Award 2018" in a black tie ceremony that they seem to have set up themselves to give themselves the award (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbKMdhpwbaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbKMdhpwbaw). They are still going I think if you are looking for a safe place to put your money. https://amycastor.com/2019/03/01/diving-into-wb21-the-company-holding-9-million-of-quadriga-money/ https://amycastor.com/2019/03/01/diving-into-wb21-the-compan...
- gumby 8y agoOr perhaps “widow”
- vermilingua 8y agoPerhaps seems pretty accurate yes
- api 8y agoSounds like typical stuff for the cryptocurrency world.
- 908087 8y agoThat "award" ceremony video is both surreal and ridiculously cringe-inducing at the same time. It wouldn't surprise me if he actually felt like he had "achieved" something when he gave himself that award, either. It was like you were watching his fantasy of what people would say about him if he was a productive member of society instead of a criminal and fraud.
- qqqwerty 8y agoFWIW, this is only marginally worse than your standard 'industry award' in that he had the nerve to give it to himself. Pretty much every industry has a boatload of meaningless awards. It is done largely for marketing and for 'social engineering'[1]. It is cheap (both in cost and tact) but effective. [1] Curries favor with the awardees, creates an 'in group' etc...
- SkidanovAlex 8y agoLove the "into the ether" pun
- 420codebro 8y agoDank. When I can expect the movie? I'm very excited.
- justinclift 8y agoPlot twist: 10) The CEO was really an actor... hired by the "wife", who masterminded the whole thing Alternative plot twist: 10b) Both the CEO and wife are hired actors. The head of the orphanage was the mastermind
- ljm 8y agoSCP Twist: the orphanage itself was the mastermind; it manifests when a blockchain fintech startup launches and exists solely to de-materialise the founders and redistribute crypto funds. The children of the orphanage are yet to be identified, though it is speculated that they are the disappeared fintech founders.
- SNACKeR99 8y agoPlot twist: the adoption of the orphans is in fact the canonical blockchain transaction and the recent slowdown in verifications is due to a lack of orphans. This need for more orphans is the fuel for global warfare ultimately turning the purpose of humanity into that of being slave to the blockchain.
- JVIDEL 8y agoThis sounds like something Kojima would write for another Metal Gear game.
- csel 8y agoMore plot twist - (taken from cbc article) "Government records also reveal that Robertson (wife of Gerald Cotten) has used three family names. Deeds for properties she bought in 2016 show she was once known as Jennifer Forgeron. On Dec. 1, 2016, Nova Scotia's Royal Gazette announced she was changing her name from Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Griffith to her current name, Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Robertson." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quadrigacx-nova-scotia-real-estate-jennifer-robertson-1.5010487 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quadrigacx-nova-s...
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- pysxul 8y agoIt's the wife with the chandelier in the library
- steeleduncan 8y ago> 6) World watches as wallets mysteriously empty I missed this. Are there transactions showing the money moving from the cold storage address(es) after his (alleged) death?
- smpetrey 8y agoSeriously. This is a next-level conspiracy unfolding.
- basch 8y ago"A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that investigators cracked Cotten's laptop and discovered money was missing. In fact, they have possession of his laptop and identified money was missing through public blockchain records." That will be a much less exciting scene in the movie. Itll be some dramatized "people around a computer watching traceroute"