Have you ever tumbled down a late-night rabbit hole reading about unbelievable true crime stories? If you haven’t, buckle up, because the Gerald Cotten Mystery is one of the wildest financial puzzles of the digital age. Back in late 2018, the crypto community was rocked by a headline that sounded straight out of a Hollywood thriller. Gerald Cotten, the young CEO and co-founder of QuadrigaCX—at the time Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange—suddenly died while traveling in India. While tragic on its own, his passing opened up a Pandora’s box of chaos. Cotten was reportedly the only person who knew the passwords and encryption keys to the platform’s cold wallets, leaving roughly…