Mysterious Deaths In Financial World

28 Year Old CEO Of Bitcoin Exchange Dead After Possible Suicide

Newswatch,

3 March, 2014

According to Tech in Asia, Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange platform First Meta’s 28 year old CEO Autumn Radtke committed suicide. Reasons are currently unknown.

[UPDATE: Tech in Asia has updated the article to emphasize that suicide is only suggested and not certain]

First Meta is a Singaporean start up company that runs a exchange platform for virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. The news of suicide of its CEO Autumn Radtke spread on Facebook and Twitter, drawing attention from the BItcoin industry.

The exact reason that may have led to the suicide is not known, and whether the Police have concluded that the cause of death is suicide is also unofficial. First Meta has stated that an official announcement will be given by the company soon.

Before joining First Meta, Radtke was the Director of Business Development at Xfire – a company that develops IM systems for gamers. Radtke was also the Co-founder, Business Development at Geodelic Systems, Inc.

The Bitcoin market is fairly unstable right now, facing wave after wave of turmoils. On Tuesday one of the biggest Bitcoin exchange centre Mt. Gox suddenly ceased its operations, its company CEO stating that the industry is at its ‘turning-point’, bringing Bitcoin investors great concern over the unregulated virtual currency.

2 More Mysterious Deaths In Financial World

Beforeitsnews,

4 March, 2014

Two more members of the international financial world have recently met their untimely and very young deaths. Both 28-year old CEO of Bitcoin Exchange First Meta Autumn Radke and the coder behind both Namecoin and Huntercoin, Mikhail Sindeyev, have recently passed away due to what are being called a ‘suicide’ and a stroke for the 27-year old Sindeyev. Are these deaths tied in to the 20+ other banker deaths and suicides reported in the news in recent weeks? Following the collapse of Bitcoin in recent days, these deaths following the collapse of the virtual currency seem to be tied together hand in hand with other events we’ve watched unfolding across the financial world in recent times. More below including a newly released video report on these deaths from Susan Duclos.

According to Tech in Asia, Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange platform First Meta’s 28 year old CEO Autumn Radtke committed suicide. Reasons are currently unknown.

[UPDATE: Tech in Asia has updated the article to emphasize that suicide is only suggested and not certain]

First Meta is a Singaporean start up company that runs a exchange platform for virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. The news of suicide of its CEO Autumn Radtke spread on Facebook and Twitter, drawing attention from the BItcoin industry.

Our condolenses to parents of Mikhail Sindeyev

Mikhail Sindeyev, researcher of our lab, has died February 14, 2014 from stroke at 27. He was one of the most talented graduates of our laboratory and active participant of many research projects. In May 2013 he successfully defended his PhD thesis “Research and developement of video matting algorithms”. Our sincere condolenses to his parents. We will deeply miss him.