QuadrigaCX Chief Executive Feared For His Life According To A Close Friend

QuadrigaCX Chief Executive Gerald Cotten allegedly feared for his life because of the massive amounts of funds he controlled. According to the latest information that comes in our altcoin news, a former friend and colleague claims that Cotten was under a lot of pressure.

Adam O’Brien, an entrepreneur and a close friend to the QuadrigaCX Chief Executive, explained that Cotten worried that he might end up being kidnapped because of the crypto assets holdings since they reached a sum of millions of dollars that only he had access to, according to the statement in the Global News:

‘’Gerry was holding, we know, over $100 million, almost $200 million dollars in funds. That makes people do some pretty crazy things. And I think Gerry was aware of that, and I think he was kind of worried that something might happen.’’

O’Brien also outlined that the only way to access the funds is if Cotten had already set up multiple contingency measures. He stated that the QuadrigaCX Chief executive should create a backup system in case anything goes wrong. This information can be hopeful for some users of the exchange but everything could be lost if there isn’t a backup system built.

When he described Cotten, O’Brien noted that the QuadrigaCX chief executive was a super smart man but that ‘’ a dead man’s switch would be something that Gerry would have had to set up before he passed away.’’

Usually, this kind of a ‘’switch’’ is activated over a long time of inactivity. Some believe that the dead man’s trigger services could send an email to all of the users in a specified period over a month or two. The user is then expected to respond to the emails by clicking a link. However, if the user does not click the link, the trigger is activated instantly or over a grace period. Activation involves sending emails with specific instructions. This is what O’Brien believes that the QuadrigaCX chief executive has already done.

As we mentioned previously in the latest cryptocurrency news, the QuadrigaCX chief executive Gerald Cotten died in India after a complication from Crohn’s disease. The funds cannot be accessed still.