Episode 3: Cracks in the Empire

A Death In Cryptoland by CBC

Jun 1, 202100:33:50Society & Culture

Gerald Cotten and his business partner, Michael Patryn, launch QuadrigaCX on Boxing Day, 2013. There’s hype in the budding Bitcoin community and the small exchange seems to have a meteoric rise. But cracks begin to appea...

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