It all started about three years ago, when Gerald Cotten was reported dead at age 30 from complications with Crohn’s disease.
So far, so unlucky.
By the time he died, these accounts – some of which were named things like Aretwo Deetwo and Seethree Peaohh – had made hundreds of thousands of trades, selling their fake Bitcoin for real currency.
“I kept asking them: Where’s my money? – October, November, December – during all that time,” Zou told Sky News.
See, if Cotten were alive, he would be in big trouble right now.
If the authorities are bamboozled by the case, so too are those who considered themselves Cotten’s friends and colleagues.