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Bitcoin widow : love, betrayal and the missing millions / Jennifer Robertson ; with Stephen Kimber.

by Robertson, Jennifer (Jennifer Kathleen Margaret).

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HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, 2022.

Robertson, Jennifer (Jennifer Kathleen Margaret)

Swindlers and swindling.

Widows -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.

Fraud -- Biography.

9781443463904 (pbk.)

334 p. ; 22 cm.

"She met the man of her dreams and suddenly had it all. In one fateful night, she lost everything, and the true nightmare began. Jennifer Robertson worked hard and was building a life for herself in the ashes of the marriage to her first husband. Still only 26, she swiped right on a dating app and met Gerry Cotten, a man she would not normally have considered, too young and not her type, but found she'd met her match. Eccentric but funny and kind, Cotten proved a bitcoin wizard who quickly amassed substantial wealth through his company, Quadriga. The couple travelled the world, first class all the way, while Cotton worked away on his multitude of encrypted laptops. Then, while the couple was in India opening an orphanage in their name in December 2018 while on their honeymoon, Gerry died suddenly at the age of 30. Jennifer was consumed by grief and guilt, but soon her nightmare would only grow. It turned out that Gerry owed $250-million to Quadriga customers, and all of the passwords to his encrypted virtual vaults, hidden on his many laptops, died with him. Jennifer found herself with more than one hundred thousand investors looking for their money, and Gerry's secrets had died with him. The Quadriga scandal touched off major investment and criminal investigations, not to mention a million internet rumours circulating on dark message boards, including that he had faked his own death and that his wife was the real mastermind behind a sophisticated sting operation. While Jennifer waited for a dead man's switch e-mail that would probably never come, it became clear that Cotten had gambled away about $100-million of those funds entrusted to him for investment in his many schemes, leaving Jennifer holding the bag. 'Bitcoin Widow' is 'Catch Me If You Can' meets a widow betrayed, a life of fairy-tale romance and private jets torched by betrayal, as Jennifer Robertson looks to reset her life in the wake of one of the biggest investment scandals of the digital age."--From publisher.

Creative nonfiction.

Kimber, Stephen.

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