Mystery as Quadriga crypto-cash goes missing
Efforts to recover millions in crypto-cash from the digital wallets of a man who died without revealing passwords to access them have hit a snag.The wallets have been found to be empty.The discovery was made by a firm appointed to oversee QuadrigaCX after the death of founder Gerald Cotten.It expected to find the wallets full of C$ 180m ($ 137m; £105m) in crypto-cash deposited by the coin exchange's customers.Mr Cotten, who died in India in December, had sole responsibility for handling the funds and coins passing through the site. Inviting fraudThe master key to unlock the wallets was held on Mr Cotten's laptop but he died without letting anyone else know the passphrase to unlock the device. Most of the digital cash that c...
