{"id":87392,"date":"2019-02-04T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/canadian-cryptocurrency-fund-boss-gerald-cotten-died-and-us190million-of-his-investors-money-may-be-encrypted-forever"},"modified":"2019-02-04T19:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:22:43","slug":"canadian-cryptocurrency-fund-boss-gerald-cotten-died-and-us190million-of-his-investors-money-may-be-encrypted-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/canadian-cryptocurrency-fund-boss-gerald-cotten-died-and-us190million-of-his-investors-money-may-be-encrypted-forever","title":{"rendered":"Canadian cryptocurrency fund boss Gerald Cotten died \u2013 and US$190million of his investors\u2019 money may be encrypted forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canadian-cryptocurrency-fund-boss-gerald-cotten-died-and-us190million-of-his-investors-money-may-be-encrypted-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US$190 million in investors\u2019 money has been locked since Cotten died in December. His widow says she doesn\u2019t know his passwords.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>About US$190 million in cryptocurrency has been locked away in a online black hole after the founder of a currency exchange died, apparently taking his encrypted access to their money with him.<\/p>\n<p>Investors in QuadrigaCX, Canada\u2019s largest cryptocurrency exchange, have been unable to access their funds since its founder, Gerald Cotten, died last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canadian-cryptocurrency-fund-boss-gerald-cotten-died-and-us190million-of-his-investors-money-may-be-encrypted-forever3.jpg\" class=\"\" data-resolution=\"2\" height=\"385\" title=\"Representations of the Ripple, bitcoin, Etherum and Litecoin virtual currencies are seen on a PC motherboard in this illustration picture. Photo: Reuters\" width=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/money\/article\/2185023\/canadian-cryptocurrency-fund-boss-gerald-cotten-died-and-us190million\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/money\/article\/2185023\/canadian...190million<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US$190 million in investors\u2019 money has been locked since Cotten died in December. His widow says she doesn\u2019t know his passwords. About US$190 million in cryptocurrency has been locked away in a online black hole after the founder of a currency exchange died, apparently taking his encrypted access to their money with him. Investors in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1761,39,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-cryptocurrencies","category-economics","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}