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02775aam a2200241 4500 001 CBF89C203E2911ED85B95C534CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220927010045 008 211223s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1443463906 020 $a 9781443463904 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Robertson, Jennifer. 245 1 $a Bitcoin widow : $b Love, betrayal and the missing millions / $c Jennifer Robertson. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, $c 2022. 300 $a 334 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a She met the man of her dreams and suddenly had it all. Then, in one fateful night, she lost everything, and the nightmare began Jennifer Robertson was working hard to build a life for herself from the ashes of her first marriage. Still only twenty-six, 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 turned out to be a bitcoin wizard who quickly amassed substantial wealth through his company, Quadriga. The couple travelled the world, first class all the way, while Cotten worked on his multitude of encrypted laptops. Then, while the couple was on their honeymoon in India, opening an orphanage in their name, Gerry fell ill and died in a matter of hours. Jennifer was consumed by grief and guilt, but that was only the beginning. It turned out that Gerry owed $250 million to Quadriga customers, and all the passwords to his encrypted virtual vaults, hidden on his many laptops, had died with him. Jennifer was left with more than one hundred thousand investors looking for their money, and questions, suspicions and accusations spiralling dangerously out of control. The Quadriga scandal touched off major investment and criminal investigations, not to mention Internet rumours circulating on dark message boards, including claims that Gerry 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 the funds entrusted to him for investment in his many schemes, leaving Robertson 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 duplicity, as Jennifer Robertson tries to reset her life in the wake of one of the biggest investment scandals of the digital age. 541 $d 20220228. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 700 $a Kimber, Stephen. 941 $a 1 952 $l HNPC845 $d 20220927012630.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CBF89C203E2911ED85B95C534CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search