Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Digital exchange loses $137 million as founder takes passwords to the grave

Stephen Downes

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We've all made mistakes in the past. But this digital exchange founder made one of the most expensive mistakes in history when he failed to plan for his own death, leaving $137 million in cryptocurrency forever locked in an apparently unbreakable digital safe. This - to remind everybody - is why we regulate things like financial institutions.

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