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American Bitcoin exchange CEO found dead in her Singapore home after suspected suicide at age 28

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flowers:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573863/Bitcoin-exchange-CEO-dead-home-suspected-suicide-age-28.html


--- Quote ---The American CEO of an exchange for the troubled bitcoin digital currency has been found dead after a suspected suicide at her home in Singapore.

Wisconsin native, Autumn Radtke, 28, was discovered inside her apartment on February 28 and officials in the South East Asian city state are now waiting for toxicology test results to determine the exact cause of death.

Douglas Adams, the non-executive chairman of First Meta confirmed that his colleague had passed away in a statement which said the company was 'shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke.'

The death of Radtke is the latest piece of bad news to hit the crisis-ridden bitcoin currency following the collapse of the Japanese-based Mt Gox exchange last week after $400m went missing and the closure of the Flexcoin bank yesterday in Canada after computer hackers robbed $600,000.
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flowers:
/What is Bitcoin? I see it in the news, just haven't followed it. I know it is some sort of fake  currency.

EC:

--- Quote from: flowers on March 05, 2014, 03:13:52 pm ---/What is Bitcoin? I see it in the news, just haven't followed it. I know it is some sort of fake  currency.

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Not exactly fake, merely virtual and highly encrypted, and no more artificial than most modern currencies. It is a limited currency with a fixed number of bitcoins permitted world wide. Untraceable for goods and services, so rather popular with the "less savory" aspects of online commerce, though the closure of The Silk Road has caused some problems.

flowers:

--- Quote from: EC on March 05, 2014, 03:21:21 pm ---Not exactly fake, merely virtual and highly encrypted, and no more artificial than most modern currencies. It is a limited currency with a fixed number of bitcoins permitted world wide. Untraceable for goods and services, so rather popular with the "less savory" aspects of online commerce, though the closure of The Silk Road has caused some problems.

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Is is actual coin?

EC:

--- Quote from: flowers on March 05, 2014, 03:28:57 pm ---Is is actual coin?

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Nope. Not something you can carry around in your pocket. You can have a bitcoin wallet on your smartphone or a USB drive though. It's basically a gimmick.

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