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Bitcoin Widow

Written by: Jennifer Robertson, Stephen Kimber
Narrated by: Stephanie Willing
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She met the man of her dreams and suddenly had it all. Then, in one fateful night, she lost everything, and the nightmare began

Jennifer Robertson was working hard to build a life for herself from the ashes of her first marriage. Still only twenty-six, she swiped right on a dating app and met Gerry Cotten, a man she would not normally have considered—too young and not her type—but found she’d met her match. Eccentric but funny and kind, Cotten turned out to be a bitcoin wizard who quickly amassed substantial wealth through his company, Quadriga. The couple travelled the world, first class all the way, while Cotten worked on his multitude of encrypted laptops. Then, while the couple was on their honeymoon in India, opening an orphanage in their name, Gerry fell ill and died in a matter of hours. Jennifer was consumed by grief and guilt, but that was only the beginning. It turned out that Gerry owed $250 million to Quadriga customers, and all the passwords to his encrypted virtual vaults, hidden on his many laptops, had died with him. Jennifer was left with more than one hundred thousand investors looking for their money, and questions, suspicions and accusations spiralling dangerously out of control.

The Quadriga scandal touched off major investment and criminal investigations, not to mention Internet rumours circulating on dark message boards, including claims that Gerry had faked his own death and that his wife was the real mastermind behind a sophisticated sting operation. While Jennifer waited for a dead man’s switch e-mail that would probably never come, it became clear that Cotten had gambled away about $100 million of the funds entrusted to him for investment in his many schemes, leaving Robertson holding the bag.

Bitcoin Widow is Catch Me If You Can meets a widow betrayed, a life of fairy-tale romance and private jets torched by duplicity, as Jennifer Robertson tries to reset her life in the wake of one of the biggest investment scandals of the digital age.

©2022 Jennifer Robertson and Stephen Kimber (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

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love it!

a total must to listen to. I couldn't stop. it's a riveting tale that kept me listening, ears pricked.

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Self-Indulgent Naivety On Display

Save yourself the time and read the Wiki Article. All the salient bits are there. This memoir is rife with self-indulgent musings of a young, naive woman who didn’t want to consider what was really going on. Why would you when every dream is coming true.

The narrator seems to have been selected perfectly to portray the story, playing young, impressionable and starry eyed.

A ‘meh’ listen.

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Touching insights to Canada's Bitcoin evolution

Thank you Jennifer for sharing your life’s journey and how the QuadrigaCX part of your life fits into it. So delightful to hear that you have been able to move on past it now.
I did loose a small amount to this fraud, but remain convinced you were not a part of it. My guess is that Gerry started with a simple opportunistic gamble, that got out of control.

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Incredible story and inspirational message

Compelling story that was easy to listen to and kept me wanting to know more from Jennifer‘s perspective. Being deceived in a relationship is a common story whether just a little or a whole alternate life full of lies. I have experienced this myself so I’m not too surprised by Jennifers story, ongoing love, and pain. Unfortunately, she went through a much larger aftermath than most of us. I appreciate her willingness to share her side of this incredible story and also sympathize with those who lost investments through this scheme.

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She did the best she could

I'm referring here to the narrator Stephanie Willing. It wasn't until half way through the book that I realized her grating, adolescent, everything's -"amaaaazing" - voice, so irritating at first, was the perfect embodiment of the the author. For that I give the performance 5/5. This narrator really does sound as un-intelligent and immature as it's author, How this could be even after using the talents of a second writer should be considered an astonishing achievement of revealing the true person behind this memoir. I typically enjoy memoirs as they provide insight on the human condition though authors who have achieved great things in life, be it in the arts, literature, politics, sports, what have you. The utter lack of introspection only to be replaced by victimhood is very hard to miss. One last question ; Only someone living on the moon would not know that crypto currencies are the favored transaction device of every nefarious activity on earth - drugs, prostitution, extortion, These activities depend upon getting cash and hiding cash. Any reasonable person walking into their kitchen and seeing the table literally covered in stacks of cash, administered by a person one could only describe as secretive and paranoid, would have made a run for the hills. Instead, the author decided to get married and spend that cash - and now gush shamelessly at how "amaaazing" those experiences were. There is self harm mentioned in the book and that is something to be taken seriously and I was happy to read she has overcome those dark days. That said, the layers of delusions are stacked too high to elicit much additional sympathy, which, along with cashing in on other people's suffering, seems to be the aim of this book.

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Play me the world's tiniest violon

Jennifer Robinson claims to know nothing about the con her husband pulled. And in order to believe that, you would have to suspend your entire grip on reality. if she is as blind as she claims, then she is either extremely naive, or extremely selfish. her before Gerry story is boring AF. her tails of traveling the world Uber 1st class without asking a single question of her husband are unbelievable. and after he "dies" and she can't keep all the things she very obviously thinks that she's entitled to? the cringe is real. Not an ounce of empathy for the users her husband exit scammed. if she truly got as screwed over as the clients you'd think she'd be the first person to say "exhume the body, prove he's dead and leave me alone". but she doesn't. which underscores what any rational person would get. something is not right here. who knows, maybe she's been gifted a secret cold wallet and will disappear once this book fails to pay out the grift she's banking on. 1/10 and that's only because and actor and a ghost writer spend 300+ pages on this.

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