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Rachel Break Them on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. Gerald Cotton was Bitcoin's Bernie Madoff. He ran Canada's biggest crypto exchange, Quadrika, like it was a small-time

Ponzi scheme, embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars from his customers, and then gambling most of it away. But the people

who knew him say they had no idea what he was up to. For this episode I spoke with a

friend of Jerry's, a Bitcoin security expert named Michael

Perklin.

Now Jerry didn't have many close friends, but according to someone who knew him well, he thought very highly of Michael.

So I asked Michael what he thought of Jerry when he was alive and what he thinks of him now.

I'm Aaron Lamer. Welcome to Exit Scam, a podcast about a mysterious death and a missing fortune.

This is part five, the old friend.

Could you tell me your name and what you've been doing professionally?

Sure, so my name is Michael Parkland. I'm the chief information security officer of Shapeshift by day. Shapeshift is a platform that allows

you to send, receive, and trade Bitcoin.

So would it be safe to say that you are involved in security in the crypto space?

Yes, I first got involved with blockchain technology in late 2010 and so it's almost a full 10 years now that I've been working with

Bitcoin, Ethereum and and related technologies. When did you first come across

Gerald Cotton? When I decided to start working on Bitcoin full-time, I started my own Bitcoin-focused digital

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