American Bitcoin exchange CEO found dead in her Singapore home after suspected suicide at age 28

Mail Online ^ | 5 March 2014 | Daily Mail Reporters

[Mad Dawgg]

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.

Wisconsin native, Autumn Radtke, 28, was discovered inside her apartment on February 28 and officials in the South East Asian city state are now 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 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 death of Radtke is the latest piece of bad news to hit the crisis-ridden bitcoin currency following the collapse of the Japanese-based Mt Gox exchange last week after $400m went missing and the closure of the Flexcoin bank yesterday in Canada after computer hackers robbed $600,000.

[DoodleDawg]

Is that Richard Branson she’s with?

[a fool in paradise]

If you have 2 bitcoins, you can always rub them together and play pogs...

[Mr. K]

A CEO of a currency exchange at 28?

This is looking more and more like a highschool project like business club or something where they make lamps and sell them for profit?

[grania]

with tulips at least people were chasing after some very pretty flowers. A bitcoin....what's made up out of thin air disappears into thin air.

Bitcoin seems more like Enron energy credits or whatever they were.

[3boysdad]

Who’s the girl on the left?

[I want the USA back]

The ponzi scheme is unraveling.

[windcliff]

Sure looks like it to me.

[Steely Tom]

Bitcoin is not going to end well.

From a little more than three months ago. A little prediction from you-know-who.

[Pecos]

Very, very good historical reference. IIRC, the only people that made out well on the tulip bulb fiasco were the children of a famous Dutch painter who bought a bunch of rare bulbs just before he died. The executor of his estate immediately sold the bulbs for gold and the kids were set for life.

Didn't even the British king at the time get caught up in that frenzy?

[hoosiermama]

Who has the list?

[McGruff]

A coincidence?

[Lazamataz]

You don't 'suicide' at 28 when you are running a major financial company.

You are 'suicided'.

[Mad Dawgg]

"A CEO of a currency exchange at 28?"

Well that is not that far from the norm any more...

Bill Gates was CEO of Microsoft at age 20

Steve Jobs was CEO of Apple at age 21

Lawrence Page was CEO of Google at age 25

Mark Zuckerberg was CEO of Facebook at age 20...

[Noamie]

this one is kinda easy for my conspiracy hat:

A digital currency challenges the world banks. It’s laughed at at first. Then, just as soon as people begin to take it seriously, the major exchanges get hacked by unknown groups, the money is stolen and the principals start “committing suicide.”

Lesson learned: The banks will never allow for something like this to occur. Not now. Not 1,000 years from now.

:)

[b4its2late]

I think you may be correct.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Sure looks like him

[hoosiermama]

Wayne?

[Revolting cat!]

Like Lois Lerner, I'm not saying anything.

[LumberJack53213]

as if our own fiat money wasn’t virtual enough, they go and invent bitcoins!! Imaginary currency purchasing more imaginary currence, we have gone mad.

[LumberJack53213]

http://sg.linkedin.com/pub/autumn-radtke/6/21/183 Check out this woman’s resume’? Talk about a light weight, what credentials did she have?