Paul Vigna

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Cryptocurrency Mystery: How Did $140 Million Disappear? · 7 Feb 2019 podcast

And took it to his grave.

Trading data.

This is where this kind of gets really crazy.

In our story today, we talked to a couple of people who have done an analysis of, and look, the interesting thing about Bitcoin is that every transaction is maintained on a public ledger.

That's what's called the blockchain.

Every Bitcoin, the entire transaction history of every Bitcoin can be traced.

It's an incredible amount of information, but it is all out there and you can trace it.

You can trace it publicly.

So the circumstances under which cotton died are questionable.

Yeah.

The official word is complications from Crohn's disease.

He died on a trip to India on December 9th.

The company didn't announce it until January 15th.

So the question is a month later.

Yeah.

So the question is, you know, that that's that's kind of odd.

Ah, you know, nothing was said on social media, your family, no one knew you didn't have friends.

People weren't talking like none of that happened.

So for five weeks while this company, mind you, is having a lot of money problems, no one says anything about him dying.

Then for another two weeks, they don't say anything about him being the only person with a private key until they file for bankruptcy protection at the end of January.

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