He was not an evil dude, said Freddie Heartline, a founder of the Bitcoin Co-op, when asked about the missing millions. Roberston said she's sorry for Cotten's actions and the harm he's caused. But there were questions regarding Gerrys death and the events surrounding it. He grew up in a large brick house on a quiet suburban street in Belleville, The Friendly City, a waterfront community between Toronto and Montreal best known for its cheddar cheese. When national news articles began to appear a month later, they emphasized another detail: Cotten was the only person with the passwords to the accounts holding Quadrigas fundscryptocurrency and cashworth approximately a quarter billion U.S. dollars. He attended meetups at coffee shops and dorm rooms, organized by a core group of about 10 people, who called themselves the Vancouver Bitcoin Co-op. Patryn joined TalkGold on April 3, 2003, the year the site launched. Small said people were bringingduffel bags of cash to the home Cotten and Robertson shared. Among those Mueller warned was Amber Scott, an anti-money-laundering expert at a compliance firm in Toronto called Outlier Solutions. He began his own HYIP chat site by December, and on January 1, 2004he was 15 and a halfhe launched his first pyramid scheme, S&S Investments. Settlement allows QuadrigaCX founder's widow to keep $90K in cash - CBC A death in Cryptoland | CBC News After his release in 2007, he was deported to Canada. Quadriga mystery deepens with little evidence of cold wallets containing $250M, QuadrigaCX founder used aliases, moved assets into personal accounts: report, Lawyers for QuadrigaCX clients seek exhumation of late founder's remains, Curious about cryptocurrency? Jennifer Robertson is the widow of Gerald Cotten, who died suddenly in India in December, leaving his business in chaos and as much as $180 million of cryptocurrency locked in his encrypted laptop and USB keys. 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. Quadrigas corporate accounts did trade tens of millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin with accounts connected to known Ponzi schemes and illegal marketplaces.