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Bitcoin CEO mati in sinkapore
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Pap is now shit scared of a "Shane Todd" deja vu ...
S'pore police probes 'unnatural death' of American Bitcoin CEO
<small class="clear">Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 15:38
</small>AFP
SINGAPORE - Singapore's police said Thursday they were investigating the "unnatural death" of a young American woman who headed a company dealing in the Bitcoin virtual currency.
Autumn Radtke, chief executive of Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange company First Meta, was found dead in her apartment in the city-state last month.
A local technology website reported she had committed suicide, but later updated its report to say it was "unclear" how she died.
The Singapore Police Force said they received a call on the morning of February 26 requesting assistance at a highrise residential building.
"Upon police's arrival, a woman in her 20s was found lying motionless at the said location," a police statement said.
"She was pronounced dead at scene by paramedics. Police are investigating the unnatural death," the statement said.
A source, who asked not to be named, confirmed to AFP that Radtke was a US citizen. Media reports said she was 28 years old.
News of Radtke's death first surfaced in the technology startup community, which has a thriving presence in Singapore.
First Meta announced Radtke's death on its website but did not give a cause.
"The First Meta team is shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke," the company said in a brief statement.
"Our deepest condolences go out to her family, friends and loved ones. Autumn was an inspiration to all of us and she will be sorely missed," the statement said, without giving details.
First Meta provides a web-based exchange for users to buy, sell and trade virtual currencies for real money.
Radtke moved to Singapore in 2012, and her death comes amid controversy surrounding the Bitcoin virtual currency.
On February 28, Japan-based MtGox Bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy protection, with its chief executive saying it had lost the equivalent of nearly half a billion dollars in a possible theft.
On Tuesday, Canada-based Flexcoin was forced to shut down, saying that someone attacked its systems and stole nearly $600,000 worth of Bitcoin.
First Meta last year secured funding of Sg$588,000 ($464,000) from Silicon Valley-based technology firm Plug and Play Tech Center.
Singapore's central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has said however that virtual currencies are not legal tender and those who deal in them should be aware of the risks.
"MAS does not regulate Bitcoin, including its purchase, sale or use, whether online or via other means such as physical vending machines," MAS said in a statement last week.
"Businesses and individuals who choose to accept virtual currencies in exchange for goods and services or to transact in them should be cognizant of the risks and nature of virtual currencies."
S'pore police probes 'unnatural death' of American Bitcoin CEO
<small class="clear">Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 15:38
</small>AFP
SINGAPORE - Singapore's police said Thursday they were investigating the "unnatural death" of a young American woman who headed a company dealing in the Bitcoin virtual currency.
Autumn Radtke, chief executive of Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange company First Meta, was found dead in her apartment in the city-state last month.
A local technology website reported she had committed suicide, but later updated its report to say it was "unclear" how she died.
The Singapore Police Force said they received a call on the morning of February 26 requesting assistance at a highrise residential building.
"Upon police's arrival, a woman in her 20s was found lying motionless at the said location," a police statement said.
"She was pronounced dead at scene by paramedics. Police are investigating the unnatural death," the statement said.
A source, who asked not to be named, confirmed to AFP that Radtke was a US citizen. Media reports said she was 28 years old.
News of Radtke's death first surfaced in the technology startup community, which has a thriving presence in Singapore.
First Meta announced Radtke's death on its website but did not give a cause.
"The First Meta team is shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke," the company said in a brief statement.
"Our deepest condolences go out to her family, friends and loved ones. Autumn was an inspiration to all of us and she will be sorely missed," the statement said, without giving details.
First Meta provides a web-based exchange for users to buy, sell and trade virtual currencies for real money.
Radtke moved to Singapore in 2012, and her death comes amid controversy surrounding the Bitcoin virtual currency.
On February 28, Japan-based MtGox Bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy protection, with its chief executive saying it had lost the equivalent of nearly half a billion dollars in a possible theft.
On Tuesday, Canada-based Flexcoin was forced to shut down, saying that someone attacked its systems and stole nearly $600,000 worth of Bitcoin.
First Meta last year secured funding of Sg$588,000 ($464,000) from Silicon Valley-based technology firm Plug and Play Tech Center.
Singapore's central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has said however that virtual currencies are not legal tender and those who deal in them should be aware of the risks.
"MAS does not regulate Bitcoin, including its purchase, sale or use, whether online or via other means such as physical vending machines," MAS said in a statement last week.
"Businesses and individuals who choose to accept virtual currencies in exchange for goods and services or to transact in them should be cognizant of the risks and nature of virtual currencies."
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AT least this angmor did the honourable thing. SHe killed herself when she found out that the whole bitcoin business is a scam and that she will lose all her investors money. If only Whore Jinx can learn to do the same thing.
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Why did the super rich her choose to live in sinkiepore in the first place? Tax haven, money laundry hub or what?
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New conspiracy theory on Shane Todd put out by the PAP? The truth is that the PAP and the Ah Tiongs killed Shane.
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Anything not real gold to me is boh pa key. Even cheapo sinkee dollar or usd. the other golds I trust is black gold.
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Bitcoin CEO in apparent suicide in S'pore had other issues too
<small class="clear">Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 21:43
</small>Reuters
SINGAPORE - A young American CEO who apparently committed suicide in Singapore was involved in the world of the bitcoin, but was also struggling with other issues prior to her death, friends and colleagues said.
Autumn Radtke, chief executive of virtual currency exchange First Meta Pte Ltd, was found dead on February 26. Police said they were investigating her "unnatural" death, and "preliminary investigations showed no foul play is suspected."
Neighbors said they thought Radtke jumped to her death from a residential apartment complex near her home.
Friends and colleagues said Radtke, 28, was wrestling with professional and personal pressures, not least running a start-up that was struggling to gain traction.
"She had a phenomenal network of highly successful people around her, and here she is running this little exchange and it just isn't taking off in the way anybody had hoped," Steve Beauregard, CEO and founder of GoCoin, a start-up which provided bitcoin-related services to First Meta, told Reuters.
Beauregard rented a room in Radtke's large Singapore home-cum-office and was among the last people to see her alive.
Bitcoin is under scrutiny after Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, once the world's dominant exchange for the virtual currency, filed for bankruptcy in Japan last week, blaming hackers for the loss of 850,000 bitcoins - worth more than $550 million at today's rates. A smaller, Canada-based exchange also shut, saying hackers had stolen all its bitcoins.
Douglas Abrams, director of First Meta, denied the company was struggling or up for sale, and said Radtke "did a great job as CEO." But he said selling the company always remained an option and there had been plans to save money by moving out of its current office space, a townhouse which doubled as Radtke's home.
Beauregard and others said First Meta, which initially functioned as an online trade platform for the currency used in the Second Life online world, and then expanded to other games, was not primarily involved in bitcoin. Last year, it allowed users to sell bitcoins for dollars and last month signed a deal with GoCoin.
"I'm not trying to distance First Meta from bitcoin, but it doesn't provide two-way trading in bitcoin," Abrams told Reuters.
BITCOIN FAN
Friends said Radtke, however, was a huge fan of bitcoin and had invested in it personally. One said she had persuaded friends to invest as well. Her Facebook page includes several links to bitcoin stories, mostly celebrating last year's rise in value.
In one, she comments on a sharp but brief dip in the bitcoin price last December: "The 'panic' or as I call it Christmas sale was great! Real bitcoiners got 30-40 per cent off."
"She had substantial exposure to the ups and downs of bitcoin, and while it's not likely to be the sole reason to this tragedy, it would be naive to think it didn't have a role," said one friend.
Others contested any role the virtual currency had in her death.
Beauregard said he had several conversations with her in the 48 hours prior to her death about personal and professional issues. "Bitcoin and Mt. Gox were not part of those conversations," he said.
Radtke, who moved to Singapore in early 2012, previously worked at another start-up in Santa Monica, California.
Plug and Play's Scott Robinson, who focuses on Silicon Valley bitcoin start-ups, said Radtke's years of experience in video game virtual currencies made her an instant expert and an asset to the relatively young, predominantly male, bitcoin community.
"She was a go-getter, she always worked very hard ... she stuck out as one of the only women representing bitcoin."
Before heading up First Meta, Radtke had business development roles at tech start-ups Xfire and Geodelic Systems, according to information on her LinkedIn profile.
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<small class="clear">Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 21:43
</small>Reuters
SINGAPORE - A young American CEO who apparently committed suicide in Singapore was involved in the world of the bitcoin, but was also struggling with other issues prior to her death, friends and colleagues said.
Autumn Radtke, chief executive of virtual currency exchange First Meta Pte Ltd, was found dead on February 26. Police said they were investigating her "unnatural" death, and "preliminary investigations showed no foul play is suspected."
Neighbors said they thought Radtke jumped to her death from a residential apartment complex near her home.
Friends and colleagues said Radtke, 28, was wrestling with professional and personal pressures, not least running a start-up that was struggling to gain traction.
"She had a phenomenal network of highly successful people around her, and here she is running this little exchange and it just isn't taking off in the way anybody had hoped," Steve Beauregard, CEO and founder of GoCoin, a start-up which provided bitcoin-related services to First Meta, told Reuters.
Beauregard rented a room in Radtke's large Singapore home-cum-office and was among the last people to see her alive.
Bitcoin is under scrutiny after Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, once the world's dominant exchange for the virtual currency, filed for bankruptcy in Japan last week, blaming hackers for the loss of 850,000 bitcoins - worth more than $550 million at today's rates. A smaller, Canada-based exchange also shut, saying hackers had stolen all its bitcoins.
Douglas Abrams, director of First Meta, denied the company was struggling or up for sale, and said Radtke "did a great job as CEO." But he said selling the company always remained an option and there had been plans to save money by moving out of its current office space, a townhouse which doubled as Radtke's home.
Beauregard and others said First Meta, which initially functioned as an online trade platform for the currency used in the Second Life online world, and then expanded to other games, was not primarily involved in bitcoin. Last year, it allowed users to sell bitcoins for dollars and last month signed a deal with GoCoin.
"I'm not trying to distance First Meta from bitcoin, but it doesn't provide two-way trading in bitcoin," Abrams told Reuters.
BITCOIN FAN
Friends said Radtke, however, was a huge fan of bitcoin and had invested in it personally. One said she had persuaded friends to invest as well. Her Facebook page includes several links to bitcoin stories, mostly celebrating last year's rise in value.
In one, she comments on a sharp but brief dip in the bitcoin price last December: "The 'panic' or as I call it Christmas sale was great! Real bitcoiners got 30-40 per cent off."
"She had substantial exposure to the ups and downs of bitcoin, and while it's not likely to be the sole reason to this tragedy, it would be naive to think it didn't have a role," said one friend.
Others contested any role the virtual currency had in her death.
Beauregard said he had several conversations with her in the 48 hours prior to her death about personal and professional issues. "Bitcoin and Mt. Gox were not part of those conversations," he said.
Radtke, who moved to Singapore in early 2012, previously worked at another start-up in Santa Monica, California.
Plug and Play's Scott Robinson, who focuses on Silicon Valley bitcoin start-ups, said Radtke's years of experience in video game virtual currencies made her an instant expert and an asset to the relatively young, predominantly male, bitcoin community.
"She was a go-getter, she always worked very hard ... she stuck out as one of the only women representing bitcoin."
Before heading up First Meta, Radtke had business development roles at tech start-ups Xfire and Geodelic Systems, according to information on her LinkedIn profile.
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Funny they said she "had other issues too".
simi "other issues" besides her failing business?
What was on the writer's mind?
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sooner or later, someone is going to cite "depression" as a root cause of her demise. 
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American Bitcoin exchange CEO found dead in her Singapore home after suspected suicide at age 28
Autumn Radtke, 28, is believed to have taken her own life and was discovered inside her Singapore home on February 28
Previously worked for Apple in Silicon Valley before joining the burgeoning digital currency startup
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:23 GMT, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 16:15 GMT, 5 March 2014
The American CEO of an exchange for the troubled bitcoin digital currency has been found dead after a suspected suicide at her home in Singapore.
Autumn Radtke, 28, was discovered inside her apartment on February 28 and local media and officials in the South East Asian city state are waiting for toxicology test results to determine the exact cause of death.
Douglas Adams, the non-executive chairman of First Meta confirmed that his colleague Radtke had passed away in a statement which said the company was 'shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke.'
'The First Meta team is shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke. Our deepest condolences go out to her family, friends and loved ones. Autumn was an inspiration to all of us and she will be sorely missed.'
According to First Meta’s website, Radke had lived in Singapore since January 2012.
Before that she worked in business development for Los Angeles-based mobile platform company Geodelic Systems and Internet gaming community Xfire, according to her LinkedIn profile.
The exact reason that may have caused Radtke to commit suicide is not known, as is whether the Police have concluded that the cause of death is suicide is also unofficial.
First Meta offers an exchange where users can buy and sell virtual currencies such as the troubled bitcoin.
Forbes magazine reported in 2012 that the company received $466,000 in funding from Sunnyvale, California-based business accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center and Singapore's National Research Foundation.
On February 10, Radtke posted a link to an essay entitled 'The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship' and commented obliquely that 'Everything has it's price'.
In comments posted on the day her death was announced, her friend Krystal Choo, who founded the online travel firm ZipTrip, said that 'This exact post has been killing me. I should have known in a way she was reaching out. I failed her.'
Radtke's friend, model Katie Stone posted a heartfelt tribute to her friend who passed away onto Facebook.
Calling her 'my first friend in LA', Stone said that Radtke took her 'under her wing' as she recalled spending time with the bitcoin entrepreneur in Singaporel.
'I remember sitting on that tree stump with you in that park in Singapore a few months back, one of the nightly walks we would take when sleep was hard to come by and staring at that giant willow tree that was probably a thousand years old...just sitting in silence and taking it in,' wrote Stone in her emotional Facebook post.
'At home in nature. Appreciative of what we take for granted. You were just smarter that way than anybody else. You were a sister to me and I am at a loss.'
Despite basing herself in South East Asia, the region has not taken well to bitcoin or digital currency exchanges.
On the day that Radtke was discovered in her Singapore apartment, Vietnam's communist government said trading in bitcoin and other electronic currencies is illegal, and warned its citizens not to use or invest in them.
A central bank statement late Thursday didn't spell out penalties for those who disobeyed the instruction, but it said that virtual currencies are linked to money laundering and other illegal activities.
The collapse of a major bitcoin exchange in Tokyo this week has drawn renewed attention to the currency.
Late last year, China banned its banks and payment systems from handling bitcoin. Thailand earlier put a blanket ban on its use.
Currencies like bitcoin are unnerving financial regulators in Asia and elsewhere because they are outside of their control. Established banks don't like them because people can send the money around the world with any fees.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-suspected-suicide-age-28.html#ixzz2v6dWybgD
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Another spy case? Wah 28 year old CEO. Because she's FT.
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Dont say that!
Shane Todd suicided as proven by PAP to PAP satisfaction and their satisfaction only
Same same way Arseloon first wife suicided
Same same way Teh Cheang Wan suicided
Go ask smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY and he will insist to you all of them suicided
Suiciding is very common malady when you play play with LKY
murdered by mafia for scamming mafia with bitcoins. orbie goood!!! bi-winning!!!
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SHe could have bought a large multi million dollar life insurance, than walked in front of a bus, and pay her investors back that way. Can or not? Whore Jinx will have to buy a $55 billion life insurance.
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To subscribers and owners of Bitcoins, please come try my ViRWHOs (virtual whores)
they do virtually anything and everything..let you poke any which hole, orifice you want
and allow you to come over anywhere and everywhere.. their virtual blowjobs are out of this world.
Prices start from 2 Bitcoins (also we don't allow underaged VIRHos)
they do virtually anything and everything..let you poke any which hole, orifice you want
and allow you to come over anywhere and everywhere.. their virtual blowjobs are out of this world.
Prices start from 2 Bitcoins (also we don't allow underaged VIRHos)
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Will her family ask US Senators for a coroners hearing again.
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