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9/24/2002Dissapearing - Moving from USA to Canada
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Gateway View latest post		http://web.archive.org/web/20021001160333/http:/www.shadowcrew.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
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4/3/2003Patryn TalkGold the year the site launched. In one of his first posts he boasted of earning 30 percent monthly returns in HYIP investments. PATRYN
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7/1/2003Cotten opened his account on TalkGold three months later, shortly after his 15th birthday.COTTEN
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1/1/2004Cotten was 15.5 and launched his first pyramid scheme, S&S Investments.It promised within “48 hours (usually within 18)” a return of “103% to 150%, possibly more.” In its prospectus, Cotten wrote:

“I’m afraid I’m not going to fill this section of the page with the usual bumph about how your returns are made. We do not invest in stocks, bonds, shares, precious metals or antiques. All I will say is that we will generate your return and that we are not what is called a ponzi or pyramid scheme.”		COTTEN
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10/26/2004The gig is up for 20-year-old Omar Dhanani. He is one of 28 people arrested in connection with Shadowcrew, an online bazaar trading in stolen credit and debit card numbers, bank account numbers and ID’s. These items were bought primarily with e-gold, a digital currency backed by gold and silver. Criminals were drawn to e-gold because it allowed them to transfer funds with little more than an email address. Working out of his home in Fountain Valley, California, Dhanani was a moderator on the Shadowcrew forums. He also offered Shadowcrew members an electronic money laundering service. Send him a Western Union (FDC) money order and—for a fee of 10% of a transaction—he would filter your money through e-gold accounts, adding a extra layer of anonymity to any purchases you planned to make.PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/https://web.archive.org/web/20040701194509/http://shadowcrew.com/phpBB2/
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10/29/2004After news of the Shadowcrew bust hits the streets, users on ponzi-promotion forum TalkGold begin discussing the possibility that “Patryn,” a prolific user on the forum, is actually Omar Dhanani. The majority of these high-yield investment programs (aka ponzi schemes) accepted e-gold.PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/http://www.ismlab.usf.edu/dcom/Ch13_firewallindct1028.pdf
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5/5/2005In a 2005 forfeiture case, which appears to be related to his previous Shadowcrew arrest, Dhanani uses the alias “Omar Patryn.” Another claimant in that case is Nazmin Dhanani, a relative of Dhanani’s. (Nazmin’s name will pop up again later on this timeline in association with a “Michael Patryn.”) If we were in front of a jury, with just this, and the burden was preponderance of the evidence hard to imagine a jury concluding anything other than that the two people are one and the same, in my personal opinion.— Palley (@stephendpalley) February 5, 2019PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/https://web.archive.org/web/20130510055547/http://www.talkgold.com/forum/r256207-.html
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11/18/2005Dhanani pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit credit and bank card fraud and ID document fraud related to his Shadowcrew arrest a year earlier. (US. DOJ, Indictment, Wired) He is sentenced to 18 months in prison. (Globe and Mail)PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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8/9/2006Dhanani, using the alias “Omar Patryn,” is arrested for driving under the influence. He gets two years’ probation and 13 days in jail. (Case summary)PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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4/1/2007the U.S. Department of Justice accused e-gold’s proprietors of money laundering, conspiracy and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. Nevertheless, e-gold paved the way for other digital currencies, such as Liberty Reserve, to come in and take its place in underground economies.PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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5/23/2007Dhanani is released from prison.PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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4/4/2008After the U.S. deports him back to Canada, Dhanani returns to doing what he does best: moving money. He registers Midas Gold Exchange (archive) in Calgary under “Omar Patryn.” Later, a website called Midas Gold Exchange launched at M-Gold.com offering digital currency exchange services. Midas is a “pre-approved” third-party exchanger for Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based private currency exchange with its own digital currency, LR. Users could buy LRs for $1 apiece and use them to pay anyone else who had a Liberty Reserve account. Generally, if you wanted to buy LR, you had to go through a third-party exchanger, such as M-Gold. Exchangers bought LRs in bulk directly from Liberty Reserve and sold them off in smaller quantities, typically charging a 5% transaction fee. By using exchangers, Liberty Reserve avoided having to collect banking information on its users, which would have created a financial trail. A number of Midas Gold Exchange customers are displeased with Dhanani/Patryn’s level of service. They register their grievances on Complaints.com.PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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10/22/2009“Michael Patryn” registers MPD Advertising Inc. in Vancouver, B.C. Nazmin Dhanani is listed as an officer of the company. (If you recall, the name Nazmin appeared earlier in this timeline in association with “Omar Patryn.”) MPD dissolves on August 18, 2013. (Companies of Canada) Screen Shot 2019-04-08 at 9.55.05 PMPATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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5/20/2013Arthur Budovsky, the founder of Liberty Reserve, is arrested for running a massive money laundering enterprise. Three days later, libertyreserve.com is seized. Shortly afterward, US authorities seize more than 30 domains registered as Liberty Reserve exchangers in a civil forfeiture case. M-Gold.com is one of them. According to court docs, “the defendant domain names were used to fund Liberty Reserve’s operations; without them, there would not have been money for Liberty Reserve to launder.” The domain names also added another layer of anonymity to each transaction processed through Liberty Reserve, “thus directly appealing to cyber criminals who were looking to launder the proceeds of their criminal activities.”LIBERTY RESERVE
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8/21/2013Michael Patryn and Lovie Horner register World BJJ Corporation in Vancouver. (Government of Canada.) BJJ stands for Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a form of martial art. Court documents filed in 2019 refer to Horner as Patryn’s “partner.”PATRYN
LOVIE HORNER		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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10/1/2013The Quadriga Fund was an HYIP that claimed to invest in venture capital projects and foreign currency exchange markets; it could be funded with Liberty Reserve and Bitcoin, using payment processors operated by Patryn. A quadriga is a chariot yoked to four horses abreast. Quadriga Fund claimed to be operated by four (unnamed) investment managers. “Wealth is freedom,” read the prospectus. “When you invest with Quadriga, you remain in control.”COTTEN
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10/1/2013In October 2013, Cotten placed a job posting on an online forum, BlackHatWorld, that marketed frauds and stolen goods. He sought “a programmer who is familiar with Bitcoin” to develop a website that would serve as “an open market place, like a stock market, where people buy and sell Bitcoin.” The design had to be “simple, but professional” and it had to be built quickly.COTTTEN
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10/31/2013The final curtain descends on Liberty Reserve when its co-founder pleads guilty to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitter business. (DOJ.) But by now, a new digital currency called bitcoin is making headlines. Only unlike e-gold and LR, bitcoin is decentralized, so that it can’t be shut down so easily. In a 2015 video posted on Youtube, Patryn says he got involved in bitcoin in mid-2013.LIBERTY RESERVE
PATRYN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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11/4/2013QuadrigaCX is incorporated in Vancouver, British Columbia. (The actual operating company is 0984750 BC Ltd.) Michael Patryn is a co-founder along with 25-year-old Gerald Cotten. (Affidavit.) A big hurdle for Canadian bitcoin exchanges is banking. Cotten tells Decentral Talk Live: “If you recall, back in the summer of 2013, there really weren’t many options here in Canada for people to buy and sell bitcoins…There was one exchange [Cavirtex] that was pretty much leading the pack….and then, other than that, you pretty much had to send a wire over to Japan [a reference to now-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox], if you wanted to buy Bitcoin…. You couldn’t hook up your bank account anywhere, it was just such a challenge.”PATRYN
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COTTEN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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12/23/2013Just before the platform launches, Quadriga registers as a money services business with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), the main supervisory body that oversees and regulates Canada’s financial services industry. According to Bitcoin Magazine, “While it isn’t strictly required by law, such registration is perceived by banks as a sign of legitimacy, and registration has minimized the number of banking issues [Quadriga] has had to face.”QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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12/26/2013QuadrigaCX launches in beta with a staff of five. Website architect Alex Hanin continues to oversee maintenance of the platform via Connect Development Ltd, a business registered in the U.K. (The Georgia Straight)QCX
ALEX HANIN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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1/30/2014Boasting 1,000 users, QuadrigaCX moves out of beta. The exchange is set to add dogecoin and litecoin on top of bitcoin, which it already lists. In addition, Quadriga launches Canada’s second Bitcoin ATM, where users can exchange cash for bitcoins. The plan is to open Bitcoin ATMs all over Canada. (The Georgia Straight)QCX
ATMS		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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2/1/2014Mt. Gox Suspends OperationsBITCOIN NEWS
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4/17/2014Patryn makes the final candidate list for the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit advocating the use and development of Bitcoin. [Update: a previous version of this timeline incorrectly stated that Francis Pouliot nominated Patryn. As a volunteer for the Bitcoin Foundation, part of Pouliot’s job was to organize the election process and publish candidate information on the nonprofit’s website. He did not actually nominate Patryn.]PATRYN
QCX		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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5/14/2014In another bank workaround, Quadriga announces that it will accept gold. Users can deposit or withdraw funds from their accounts in gold bullion. Patryn tells Bitcoin Magazine, “As we have a great deal of past experience with gold trading, it was not a particularly large leap to enable XBT/XAU trades on our website.” Accepting gold means that Quadriga has to actually store the gold. Bitcoin Magazine appears convinced Quadriga is up to the task. The pub writes: “Anything can be lost or stolen, of course, but QuadrigaCX is big on security. Nobody wants their funds gambled on a fractional reserve system, so all deposits are backed by gold held in their vault, which the directors have years of experience storing and securing. Full details on their storage system are obviously unavailable, but their known security measures are comforting: their office itself lies behind a barred entrance, and neighbors the office of their security company.”PATRYN
QCX		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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6/1/2014Cotten claimed he wrote his passwords on paper and locked them in a safe deposit box at a bank, “because that’s the best way to keep coins secure.”KEYS
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10/4/2014going by the pseudonym “Voleur” (French for thief), Dhanani boasted in a chat room that he moved between $40,000 and 100,000 a week. [An earlier version of this timeline stated that Dhanani was 22 at the time of his arrest. He was 22 when he pled guilty to the charges more than a year later. A Globe and Mail (outline) states he was 20 at his arrest, so I’ll go with that.]PATRYNhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2006-01-08/gold-rush
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10/6/2014Whiteside Capital Corporation, a shell company linked to Quadriga, is incorporated in British Columbia. As a holding company, it has no employees or contractors. (Affidavit)QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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11/12/2014Ancetera Networks LTC., another shell company linked to Quadriga, is incorporated in British Columbia. Since the company’s only purpose is to hold shares, it also has no employees or contractors. (Affidavit)QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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1/26/2015Ancetera Networks changes its name to Fintech Solutions. (BC Laws). Lovie Horner is listed as an executive (Bloomberg). Anthony Milewski, William Filtness, and Natasha Tsai are also directors. (Business Wire) Fintech Solutions holds a total of 40,748,300 shares. Of these, Cotten holds 16,800,000 shares (41.2%); Lovie Horner owns 4,200,000 shares (10.3%); and Crypto Group, a Hong Kong Company, of which Patryn is the sole director, owns 7,095,000 shares (17.4%). (Affidavit)QCX
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LOVIE HORNER		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/https://www.docdroid.net/GImGy4a/lovie-horner-share-agreement.pdf
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1/31/2015Despite the positive media coverage, Quadriga is struggling to stay afloat. According to a prospectus, the trading platform pulled in a mere $22,168 CAD in revenue during the three-month period ending January 31, 2015. The company’s net loss for the period was almost $90,000 CAD. (Globe and Mail)QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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2/1/2015Unable to grow the company organically, Cotten and Patryn push forward with a plan to take Quadriga public. They raise $850,000 CAD in capital from Canadian brokerage houses Haywood Securities, Jordan Capital Markets, PI Financial and Wolverton Securities.QCX
COTTEN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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2/1/2015A year later, Canada’s largest exchange, CaVirTex, announced its closure, also blaming hackersBITCOIN NEWS
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2/1/2015the second-largest exchange, Vault of Satoshi, closed the same weekBITCOIN NEWS
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2/5/2015According to a listing in S&P Global, Lovie Horner joins Quadriga as VP of business development. She has a background in fashion design.QCX
LOVIE HORNER		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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2/23/2015Two of Canada’s biggest crypto exchanges shutter, making Quadriga the biggest crypto exchange in Canada. Vault of Satoshi turned off its lights on February 17, and now Cavirtex says it plans to wind down. (Bitcoin Magazine)QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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3/3/2015Quadriga officially announces its plans to go public in a reverse takeover of Whiteside Capital, the shell company set up in October. In an episode of the #BlockTalk podcast, Patryn explains that a reverse takeover will eliminate the paperwork involved with getting listed the usual way—via an IPO. The exchange is set to trade under “Quadriga Fintech Solutions.” Public trading is expected to commence with the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) by early April. Quadriga boasts it will undergo a full financial audit by Wolrige Mahon LLP. “We’re excited to be able to provide an unparalleled level of transparency by merging legacy financial audits with innovative blockchain technology,” Cotten tells Bitcoin Magazine. But after the big announcement, things go directly downhill. Quadriga burns through all of its investment capital, and Patryn brings a lawsuit against Robert Lawrence, the Vancouver businessman he enlisted to help take the company public. Globe and Mail, which reviewed the court documents, writes: “In Mr. Patryn’s telling, Mr. Lawrence failed to perform his duties properly and the company was never able to list. Mr. Lawrence raised a total of $850,000, of which $150,000 came from Mr. Patryn. But by June, 2015, the company had run out of money and lost 45 percent of its market share, according to Mr. Patryn’s statement of claim. Mr. Patryn said much of the money had to be spent correcting the “poor quality” of Mr. Lawrence’s work. Investors pitched in another $600,000, including $200,000 from Mr. Patryn, to keep the company from failing.QCX
COTTEN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/https://ic.gc.ca/eic/site/bsf-osb.nsf/eng/br04043.html
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4/16/2015With great enthusiasm, Quadriga renews its plans to install Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. According to Buying Bitcoin, “These new BitXATM machines also will be modified to allow for direct cash deposits and withdrawals from customers’ QuadrigaCX balances.” But like many of Quadriga’s plans, none of this actually happens. [Where did Quadriga put all that cash if it had no banking? Read my update Quadriga, Quadriga, Quadriga, which talks about how some Quadriga customers claim to have been receiving withdrawals in the form of actual boxes of cash delivered to their door.]QCX
ATMS		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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9/29/2015According to SEDAR, Quadriga publishes its last “certification of interim filings.” In other words, its last financial audit.QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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11/12/2015Quadriga announces the formation of a blockchain R&D lab—Canada’s first. However, like past Quadriga projects, this one is long on hot air and short on follow through. According to the press release, the lab’s first task is to develop a “platform with two core functions: handling the onboarding and client data management for financial crime systems using the Blockchain and facilitating machine to machine (M2M) payments with Internet of Things (IoT) providers for connected cities.”QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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2/1/2016Quadriga gave up on its plans to list and severed its relationship with Mr. Patryn, he said in court documents, owing to his perceived association with Mr. Lawrence. “News of his termination from QCX has materially and negatively affected his ability to secure similar work in the financial technology industry,” Mr. Patryn’s statement of claim read. In a response, Mr. Lawrence denied the allegations and said Mr. Patryn approached him, not the other way around. Moreover, Quadriga’s failure was its own fault – and Mr. Patryn was the company’s “controlling mind,” he asserted. (Mr. Cotten is scarcely mentioned in the lawsuit.) Mr. Lawrence sought to have it dismissed. No filings have been made in the case since 2016. Mr. Lawrence could not be reached for comment.”QCX
COTTEN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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2/29/2016At this juncture, Patryn has supposedly left Quadriga. The reason, he tells Globe and Mail, is because he disagreed with Cotten’s decision to call off listing the company. Quadriga makes a passing mention on Reddit that Patryn is gone, but there is no formal announcement. On the heels of Patryn’s departure, Anthony Milewski and Lovie Horner also resign. (Business Wire)PATRYN
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LOVIE HORNER		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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3/8/2016Quadriga is banned from selling securities altogether when the British Columbia Securities Commission issues a cease trade order. Apparently, Quadriga has not submitted a financial audit for the year ended October 31, 2015. A “Management’s Discussion and Analysis” is also missing.QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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3/18/2016Cotten assumes full control of QuadrigaCX after several executives resign in the wake of a British Columbia Securities Commission order. The BCSC had ordered Quadriga to cease trading because it failed to submit a financial audit.QCX
COTTEN		https://globalnews.ca/news/5411203/quadrigacx-timeline-and-the-many-questions-still-to-be-answered/
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3/18/2016Director William Filtness and chief financial officer Natasha Tsai step down from Quadriga. Cotten is now a one-man band, managing the majority of work from his laptop, wherever he happens to be. The servers are in the cloud on Amazon Web Services. According to court documents filed in January 2019, he also “took sole responsibility” for handling the exchange’s coins. Robertson's affidavit gives an inside look at how these crypto exchanges operate. Cotten (her husband and the sole officer of Quadriga till his death on 12/9/18) was a one man band. He ran the exchange from his laptop from wherever he happened to be. https://t.co/6iivVMpbe1 Amy Castor (@ahcastor) February 1, 2019QCX
COTTEN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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11/3/2016Quadriga enters into an agreement with Billerfy, a third-party payment processor run by José Reyes. (Interpleader order)JOSE REYES/BILLERFYhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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11/30/2016Quadriga allows its FINTRAC registration to expire.QCXhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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12/1/2016REDDIT USER Emergency_Dinner claims to have received interac payment from Jennifer Forgeron

Good article. Answers my original question here about receiving an interac payment from a Jennifer Forgeron at the end of 2016. It also raises the obvious question; just how many times has this gal been married? 3 x's in her short life? Griffith, Forgeron and Cotten. She's running around with Gerry in 2016 with the name Forgeron. He died at the age of 30. So 3 years ago, at age 27. How old do you suppose she was in 2016. Let's pretend she was also 27 or younger say 25. 3 marriages in the space of this time seems incredible abnormal to me. Are the previous two husbands also dead? This last marriage to Cotten seems quite rushed, 2 months before his death.

Something stinks here :-(		JENNIFER
REDDIT/CUSTOMER		https://www.reddit.com/r/QuadrigaCX2/comments/aog4tp/quadrigacx_founders_widow_owns_75m_in_nova_scotia/
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12/1/2016Nova Scotia's Royal Gazette announced she was changing her name from Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Griffith to her current name, Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Robertson.JENNIFERhttps://www.reddit.com/r/QuadrigaCX2/comments/aog4tp/quadrigacx_founders_widow_owns_75m_in_nova_scotia/This one is this insane
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3/1/2017Another user received three similar deposits from Robertson Nova in late 2016 and early 2017, and a third user received an Interac e-transfer from an “RNC Inc.” in March 2017 with an email address attached to the name Jennifer K.M. Robertson.
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4/5/2017Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Griffith changes her last name to Robertson. (Royal Gazette.) According to CBC, she has also used the name Jennifer Forgeron in the past.JENNIFERhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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6/2/2017Quadriga announces on Reddit (archive) that it has lost some 67,000 ether (ETH) worth about $14.7 million USD due to a software glitch. The ethereum contract is known, so the money is actually lost. The exchange says: “While this issue poses a setback to QuadrigaCX, and has unfortunately eaten into our profits substantially, it will have no impact on account funding or withdrawals and will have no impact on the day to day operation of the exchange.”QCX
LOCKUP		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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6/3/2017Alex Hanin->Tay: Hi I think you have lost some ETH due to some early library issues and that EIP 156 would help you to retrieve it. I'd like to talk to you
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6/22/2017Tay->Alex Hanin

I'm about to get in bed but you can ping Kosala when he gets up in a couple hours with any specific questions.

We use https://github.com/ethereumjs/ethereumjs-tx

We set our own gas price (we used to pull from network)

For nonce, we do https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC#eth_gettransactioncount

Parity includes TXs currently in pool and geth doesn't. Or vice versa? I can't recall. They are different but surprisingly useful at times, and you can run `parity --geth` if you need them to be the same

This is from a really old version of MEW, so don't use, but it's much easier and clearer to see how you would use it to construct txs. These are from fields that user's fill in, but you could pass data however you wanted
https://github.com/kvhnuke/etherwallet/blob/3b60e98b373297db0fa07e03d37b4fcb13d680b7/js/source/03_transactions.js

And then our old functions for communicating with our node.
https://github.com/kvhnuke/etherwallet/blob/3b60e98b373297db0fa07e03d37b4fcb13d680b7/php_json_relay/api.php

(again, both are really really old but all this new-fangled JS puts things in 80 different files)
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7/1/2017"Chris Markay"https://globalnews.ca/news/5411203/quadrigacx-timeline-and-the-many-questions-still-to-be-answered/
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7/5/2017Alex Hanin->Tay: hey - you still hungover or you ok to talk about a little MEW conundrum?
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7/18/2017Despite his company’s recent financial setback, Cotten manages to register his 51-foot yacht “The Gulliver.” (Take a peek at the brochure.)COTTEN
BUYING SPREE		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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8/16/2017REDDIT / BANKING
"I'll try to explain again, since I had a little mistake: They instruct to send the money to the following bank: Bank Name: Bank Spoldzielczy w Skierniewicach Address: ul.Reymonta 25, Skierniewice 96-100, Poland Swift code: poluplpr

That swift code takes me to another bank: BANK POLSKIEJ SPOLDZIELCZOSCI SPOLKA AKCYJNA, UL. GRZYBOWSKA 81, WARSZAWA, 00-844, Poland

If I search for the original bank from the instructions, I get the following swift code: SPIKPLP1

So which one is the right one???"		REDDIT/CUSTOMERhttps://www.reddit.com/r/QuadrigaCX/comments/6u162r/quadrigacx_usd_deposit_directs_to_a_different/?ref=share&ref_source=embed&utm_content=body&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_name=7daf8cb4e9b74dc89111943d62d39987&utm_source=embedly&utm_term=6u162r
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8/20/2017Alex Hanin->Tay: https://github.com/MyEtherWallet/ethereum-lists/pull/34 Just for when you have a moment - am using your list to update our blacklist and there is a minor issue
You have no idea the number of times I said I would not create that repo

You're brave
or stupid
depends how you look at it
:)

And then....we did. And I don't regret it. But I do. Moderating the world 😭😭😭😭😭
Lol exactly

At least you don't have to deal with the Bitcoin cash issues
I envy you
in a way

Yeah I do not want to deal with that. Etc was bad enough
I'll just take our free magically appearing fork money and run thank you very much 😂
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8/21/2017Quadriga customers begin reporting delays in redeeming their Quad Bucks. In emails with clients, Cotten blames the “Canadian banking cartel” for the wire delays, saying they are out to “stifle bitcoin adoption” in the country. (Globe and Mail)REDDIT/CUSTOMER
COTTEN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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9/1/2017Robertson owns two other properties in her own name, including an island in Mahone Bay the couple purchased in September 2017 from Fox News personality Tucker Carlson for $161,250 — well below the island's tax-assessed value of $349,400.
BUYING SPREE
JENNIFER
COTTEN
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9/26/2017On behalf of Billerfy, José Reyes applies to open three commercial banking accounts at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) Beaver Creek Branch. (Interpleader order)JOSE REYES/BILLERFY
CIBC		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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9/27/2017Reyes visits CIBC’s Bayview Village Branch, and opens personal checking, savings and US dollar accounts. (Interpleader order)JOSE REYES/BILLERFY
CIBC		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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11/5/2017"I accidentally killed it" $156m error locks up Parity Funds
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11/28/2017CIBC’s anti-money laundering department reviews the Reyes’ account opening documentation at the Beaver Creek Branch. After the bank learns that Billerfy is a money service business, it closes the accounts. (Interpleader order)JOSE REYES/BILLERFY
CIBC		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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11/30/2017Reyes applies to open two small business banking accounts at CIBC’s Bayview Village Branch on behalf of Costodian, a shell company. One is an “expense account,” the other is a “transaction account.” Reyes tells the bank that Costodian is “[n]ot related to Billerfy’s CMO business.” (Interpleader order)JOSE REYES/BILLERFY
CIBC		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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12/1/2017EXMO CEO Pavel Lerner, a Russian native, was kidnapped in Kiev, Ukraine after a ‘black Mercedes Benz’ suddenly pulled up in front of Lerner as he was leaving a building, and abducted him. Pavel was eventually returned safely after paying a $1 million ransom in bitcoins, but the perpetrators were never caught and no further information about the crime was ever given.BITCOIN NEWS
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12/17/2017After a spectacular run up, bitcoin reaches on all time high of nearly $20,000 USD. According to the Globe and Mail, $1.2 billion worth of bitcoin traded on Quadriga in 2017. The exchange took a commission on every trade.BITCOIN NEWS
QCX		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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1/8/2018CIBC freezes $26 million in accounts used by Quadriga to process some of its payments. The accounts remain frozen for several months while the bank tries to sort out ownership of the money.CIBC
QCX		https://globalnews.ca/news/5411203/quadrigacx-timeline-and-the-many-questions-still-to-be-answered/
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1/8/2018CIBC is unsure of who the $26 million CAD belongs to, so it freezes two accounts belonging to Costodian and José Reyes. In an interpleader order, the bank asks the court to take possession of the funds and decide who they belong to —QuadrigaCX, Costodian or the depositors. Cotten fights back, claiming CIBC had no right to freeze the funds. Quadriga has already credited depositors with Quad Bucks.CIBC
COTTEN
JOSE REYES/BILLERFY		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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1/16/2018Matthew, 5:05 AM
@tayvano just for kicks I am sharing this here. Estatium does an ICO, but is unable to assist a user so what do they do? They redirect them to us for transaction reversal assistance ... sigh. ... (facepalm)

Alex Hanin, 5:06 AM
woah that's deep you should be proud to be considered almighty ;)

Matthew, 5:06 AM
so in one email instead of accepting responsibility, they have asked the end-user to send 3 emails to different services
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1/31/2018Alex Hanin, 12:04 PM
Ok this is probably a dumb question but I need to send some ICX token and the only contract code I can find is this: https://etherscan.io/address/0xb5A5F22694352C15B00323844aD545ABb2B11028#code
Anyone know how to use that?

Will, 12:08 PM
I wouldnt recommend an exchange to support a token which hasnt been verified like that one, but if you want to I assume it is ERC20 - so should work with ERC20 ABI or `0xa9059cbb` followed by zero padded hex value to transfer

Alex Hanin, 12:09 PM
I won't support it but one of our users sent ICX to his ETH deposit address - and as I am in a good mood, I want to send it back to him.

Alexey, 12:20 PM
I tried to get the source code from Swarm, but it is not there anymore :(

Dino, 12:24 PM
haha very nice of you alex ;)

Alex Hanin, 12:25 PM
My generosity has no boundaries - unless I am tired. then he can fork off
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2/8/2018According to the Globe and Mail, a new company 700964 NB is registered in New Brunswick as “part of a network of entities that helped move millions of dollars around so Quadriga could take deposits and facilitate withdrawals, sometimes in the form of physical bank drafts, for its clients.” Aaron Matthews, Quadriga’s director of operations, and Sarah-Lynn Matthews are listed as owners, but the address on the registration leads to a rickety trailer in a mobile home park.AARON
QCX		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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2/16/2018CIBC is still trying to sort out who the $26 million CAD belong to. The bank asks Jose Reyes (the person who controls the frozen accounts) if it is okay to speak to someone at Quadriga. Reyes declines, because Cotten had indicated that he was not interested in speaking with anyone at CIBC. (Interpleader order)CIBC
COTTEN
JOSE REYES/BILLERFY		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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3/6/2018Reyes finally gives CIBC the okay to contact Cotten. (Interpleader order)CIBC
COTTEN
JOSE REYES/BILLERFY		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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3/15/2018CIBC emails Cotten asking to speak with him briefly. Cotten declines and requests that CIBC only send him questions in writing. (Interpleader order)CIBC
COTTEN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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3/21/2018CIBC emails Cotten questions regarding the relationship of Quadriga with Costodian/Billerfy and the depositors, and Quadriga’s entitlement to the disputed funds. Neither Cotten, nor anyone else from Quadriga, respond. (Interpleader order)CIBC
COTTEN
JOSE REYES/BILLERFY		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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3/22/2018Alex Hanin->Tay: created security@quadrigacx.com - thanks
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6/8/2018Cotten marries Jennifer Robertson, according to a marriage certificate obtained by the Globe and Mail. The couple take several trips together on Cotten’s private jet.JENNIFER
COTTEN		https://globalnews.ca/news/5411203/quadrigacx-timeline-and-the-many-questions-still-to-be-answered/
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6/8/2018Cotten and Jennifer Robertson legally marry, according to Globe and Mail, who obtained the marriage certificate. Although, several Reddit posters, who claim they saw Robertson’s Facebook page, insist the couple got married on October 8, 2018.JENNIFER
COTTEN		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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6/9/18Richie: It’s def a bug Another tax just went out and then nonce is correct I don’t know how to even report this one .. This tx was from a user deposit account and the nonce for it was way off

Alexey, 11:47 AM
You can report as usual - what environment/version you had, which command you executed, and what you got. The more details the better

JonisJon, 11:56 AM
Nonce, the eternal problem that never truly goes away :)

Alex Hanin, 11:56 AM
Amen

Alexey, 11:58 AM
If you can also provide logs, that would be super helpful. And the output of "txpool.inspect" command from the console

Richie Lai, 12:05 PM
Ok .. is there a way to remove this tx? Without deleting the file and restarting

Alex Hanin, 12:05 PM
you can broadcast it manually by setting up the nonce eth.sendTransaction({from: .., to: …, gas: …, gasPrice: .., value: ..., nonce: XXX}); just use the nonce that should come next and it will clear it's long winded but it works

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7/1/2018Michael Patryn hires Reputation.ca to remove negative content about him on Complaints.com, where he is referenced as a money launderer. Patryn later sues Reputation.ca for not moving fast enough, according to the Globe and Mail, who reviewed the court documents.PATRYNhttps://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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8/24/2018Alex Hanin:
Good day,

Earlier on today, the hard drive on the Ethereum server reached its full capacity and our engineers have taken appropriate actions to increase the size of the partition. Once that was done, the service was restarted and a fast sync was performed. However there is an issue where the synchronization of the states data does not fully complete and our engineers are looking into it.

We apologise for the prolonged downtime and hope to restore the service fully later on today.

This maintenance does not affect any of the Ether balances and trading of Ether is not affected. Only fundings and withdrawals have been momentarily stopped."		https://old.reddit.com/r/QuadrigaCX/comments/9a2e0d/ethereum_server_update_25th_august/
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8/24/2018Alex Hanin, 5:01 PM
Morning - is there a specific reason why Geth would stop syncing after a fast sync?
It gets stuck at "regenerated local transaction journal" and does not move. I have googled it and checked GitHub but cannot find the reason. Version if 1.7.3 and before you ask me to update, this has been working just fine in the past.
It seems to get stuck after pulling the states - have already restarted once with no success and I have now increased the cache and restarted resync.
And of course, this has to break while on vacation and just before going on a full day trip.


Hope this will be fixed by the time I get back to the hotel tonight :/ but if you think about something, please let me know - thanks!
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10/18/2018Gerry 11:10 AM
Good morning
pretty good
Probably not, one of Jen's friends is getting married this weekend and we are going down near Lunenburg this
afternoon		JENNIFER
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10/18/2018IN HALIFAX, USED TO BE IN TORONTO
TRAVELER'S INSURANCE
Gerry 11:18 AM
when me and Jen bought our house the banks refused to give us a mortgage
me because of crypto
and then she applied on her own while still working for Travelers Insurance, and they denied her because in her
contract it said that they could force her to move back to Toronto or resign if they ever wanted to (as part of her
transfer to Halifax)		JENNIFER
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10/18/2018Gerry 11:34 AM
here I'm not sure what it is, Jen pays all the bills
my insurance however is super cheap here
car insurance
I pay $600 per month, vs $2600 in Toronto		JENNIFER
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10/18/2018Gerry 11:40 AM
the last time I had supplemental health coverage was in university
actually no, I was on Jen's plan at her old job
but they denied my Crohn's medication because it was too expensive and they wanted me to use the cheaper
one first		JENNIFER
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10/18/2018Aaron.M 2:19 PM
Lol too funny
That ATM company is the same one I reached out to a couple weeks ago
They mentioned u were looking at this in july as well though
So everything seems like it will work easy enough. They will due settlement up front for the withdrawal vouchers
So say we wanted 50k for our first batch. We sent over the btc first then we issues the codes up to that 50k
Will have lawyer docs sent over to u shortly when we get them
Aaron.M 2:43 PM
Oh forgot to mention, this will be exclusive to our exchange only
Aaron.M 4:24 PM
instacoin proposal
File Uploaded: Instacoin - Quadriga Convertible Redeemable Notes - Transaction Outline v2-1.pdf
Instacoin - Quadriga Convertible Redeemable Notes - Transaction Outline v2-1.pdf
Aaron.M 4:38 PM
we get one order say 50k from instacoin, we then use the system they give us thats run through api. We print
our own vouchers through that system as we go.
yeah when they go to the atm, they put in the cash. They choose us and it prints our a voucher to deposit on
our site
The legal doc will have our settlement terms and schedule on it as well. But I imagine it's monthly by the sounds
of them		ATM
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10/22/2018Gerry 9:53 AM
cool
have a good weekend?
when do you leave again
Aaron.M 9:55 AM
31st
Aaron.M 9:57 AM
yup, passports, suitcase is packed, some money for the trip, pretty well all is done
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10/23/2018Gerry 6:12 PM
lol ya he is super incompetent
most are Canada post money orders
a bunch of tiny ones too, like $50 -999
Aaron.M 6:13 PM
scary though, it's ur money on the end. If he held say like 100k from u, and something happened thats a lot to
make up for
hell 10k to me is alot
Gerry 6:13 PM
he's incompetent, but he wouldn't steal from me lol
Aaron.M 6:14 PM
I tweak out and photo graph every cheque etc
no I don't mean stealing, more so loosing. Even being careful u never know if ur house burnt down etc
hate to have that much on hand
ur cheques go into a fire bag, into a fire box, then in my safe until I deposit them. When I had 500k of ur money
in paper I was tweaking out at first lol
Gerry 6:15 PM
lol
best way to store them, if your house were to have a fire, drafts wouldn't survive
Aaron.M 6:17 PM
nope and the damn safe is bolted to the floor so no running out with it
lol
Gerry 6:17 PM
lol I've done the same here
safe bolted to the rafters in the attic
Aaron.M 6:17 PM
ha! thats an awesome spot
Gerry 6:18 PM
super inconvenient to access, but if my house gets robbed, no one will find it
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10/23/2018Gerry 6:01 PM
I have 3 MacBooks. My old 17 inch one gets really hot
my 15 inch newer one gets kinda hot
and my 13 inch one never gets hot
unless I'm laying in bed with it resting on a blanket, blocking the fans from being effective, in which case they
all get hot
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10/25/2018Gerry 9:21 PM
The main one I find is accessing coins that were stored using old methods for example, I have some original ETH wallets from the presale. Those are generally scary to try to access lol
Aaron.M 9:22 PM
Can only imagine
Gerry 9:22 PM
the first one I did, I was like "wtf, it needs a password?"
Gerry 9:23 PM
I was hanging around decentral a lot, so I bought in to be part of the club kinda didn't want to be the one guy there sitting across from Vitalik saying "ya, I think its crap, not interested"		COTTEN
KEYS
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10/26/2018
Aaron.M 5:10 PM
have u decide how we are going to accumulate the crypto?
lol love that, it's to funny
Gerry 5:11 PM
that depends somewhat on what we are going to use as the benchmark for pricing the crypto
did they mention anything regarding that
which price to use
Aaron.M 5:12 PM
that I have to find out but they are stating current market prices at the time of trade
likely manually at first and eventually have a web interface we can just purchase our note from with a current
pricing
Gerry 5:12 PM
I assume they'll want to use some global average
Aaron.M 5:13 PM
I think so to, so we can clarify what exchanges they will be pulling their average price from
heck still in the design phase as well, don't be afraid to name ur terms
this is a landmark deal for them too
it will be 1 time a day we purchase our bulk note
Gerry 5:16 PM
I'm good with some sort of global average
Aaron.M 5:17 PM
cool beans, will update u when the doc comes through.
so how we gonna accumulate the btc?
Gerry 5:22 PM
typically I would just buy it on QCX, but with our prices being higher than average at the moment, that isn't
ideal
Lets say that we give them $100k worth of bitcoin and for simplicity lets say that bitcoin is currently trading at
$10k per coin. I send them 10 btc. Users are withdrawing CAD, and being a marketplace where users trade with
each other, we have that CAD in some form from the buyers. If I send them 10 btc, I need to convert that CAD
that we have into BTC to maintain proper reserves. However, I don't necessarily need to purchase the BTC
immediately, I just need to lock in at the price of the trade, which can be done with futures or similar. Reason for
this is that if I send them 10 BTC for 100k CAD, if bitcoin spikes to 50k per coin tomorrow, if I haven't either
bought back that 10btc or locked in the price with a futures contract at 10k, I would lose out due to the price
change. So basically at the time of agreeing on the settlement price with the ATM company, a matching
purchase needs to be made on my end somewhere.
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11/1/2018Shortly before his death, according to two Quadriga associates, Cotten told close friends and family that Quadriga had a “dead man’s switch” that would send them access to the exchange’s funds in the case of his disappearance or death.KEYS
COTTEN
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11/3/2018Gerry 11:00 AM
oddly busy past few days. On Saturday, Jens older brother had a heart attack
Aaron.M 11:00 AM
jesus
he ok?
Gerry 11:00 AM
he's ok, but had to visit him in the hospital and bring him food and stuff
Aaron.M 11:00 AM
how old is he?
Gerry 11:01 AM
44
has a ton of bad lifestyle things that likely caused it		JENNIFER
FAMILY
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11/9/2018The Ontario Superior Court grants CIBC an interpleader order allowing the court to take control of Quadriga/Custodian’s $26 million CAD in funds until the ownership of the funds can be established. (CoinDesk) (Globe and Mail)CIBC
COTTEN
JOSE REYES/BILLERFY		https://amycastor.com/2019/02/12/how-the-hell-did-we-get-here-a-timeline-of-quadrigacx-events/
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11/9/2018https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyvarvaro/?originalSubdomain=ca
He also mentioned he has a customer lined up with 160k cad to start us. Customer is willing to buy btc at normal rate if we can supply it to a deposit address It would start our float in store that day
Gerry 10:53 AM
so customer wants to buy 160k as a over the counter purchase?
Aaron.M 10:54 AM
yeah but at current rates no discounts just doesn't want an account
Gerry 10:54 AM
current rates, like global average, or something stupid like instacoin lol
Aaron.M 11:45 AM
Aaron
I see the deal as follows:
1) Customer will deposit with Multimoneta the Montreal based FX store and Flexepin authorized vendor 160,000
2) Multimoneta confirmed receipt and holding of funds on behalf of QDX
3) QDX sells customer at their standard OTC rates 160000 of BTC
4) QDX issues payment advices to clients in Montreal area for the amount of 160000 less 1% processing fee of
Multimoneta. Payment advices can be in any amount and can commence immediately.
How does this sound?
Aaron.M 1:41 PM
Ok so with Anthony Do u want some type of contract on this btc sale so we know we aren't screwed
Gerry 1:42 PM
one sec haven't read his email yet just read it, seems good ok, yes, please negotiate a price. I'm cool with bitstamp rate converted to CAD at spot
Aaron.M 1:46 PM
ok and like I say do u trust this guy? Do we need a contract etc?
Gerry 1:47 PM
then tell him to make a basic sale contract outlining X BTC for $160k I more or less trust him he's not going to scam me over something like this kyc info for the customer ? like the 160k guy?
Gerry 1:52 PM
as far as its kinda setup at the moment, I'd say our customer is Anthony, he can do KYC on the guy who is buying, I have Anthony's info
Aaron.M 10:33 AM
U see that msg from Anthony? We should start collecting that amount of btc if possible
Anthony sent over the address of for the btc and is ready for a qoute
Aaron.M 2:35 PM
I'm sure he will be Anthony was just buggin again I'll tell him likely will take till tmr as we are trying to buy them at a decent rate U setting up a buy at 7k or what LVL u think?
Aaron.M 2:39 PM
Nothing really Anthony said it's all up to us on the final rate etc I'm sure he won't mind waiting for a lower rate
Aaron.M 3:56 PM
Fyi have another 500k lined up for OTC when u are read
Gerry 3:56 PM
from same guy?
Aaron.M 3:56 PM
Alex seems to think the 160 will be gone right away Just through Anthony yeah
Aaron.M 10:23 AM
Did u end up thinking anymore on that 500k btc sale? Anthony was just checking in, I imagine Alex should have the withdrawals for it ready anytime I can offer him $6200 CAD per coin right now, which works out to 25.8 coins 6150 cad per btc they are good with if u want to lock it in
Gerry 4:36 PM
will send the coins either tonight or tomorrow
Aaron.M 4:36 PM
ok no prob, did the full order go through? lol price has dropped 500 since we locked in
Aaron.M 10:50 AM
yeah it is, was just double checking my notes so 26.012 is what that rate made for 160k? 14tXCUSaF2yhPxfEpxwAvdXmY6AD5ZbLV8 is the address to send to"""		OTC
COTTEN
AARON
ANTHONY
FLEXEPIN
MULTIMONETA
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11/22/2018Gerry 5:26 PM
Are there any pending CAD withdrawals that aren't wires or Crypto Capital that are more urgent than others? I
have about 300k in vopay to send out and I find its quicker than finconnect		CRYPTO CAPITAL