So, I bought BTC at $600…

In the fall of 2016 I bought a little over 8 coins for about $5,000 USD. Over the next year it proceeded to go up about 6 fold so I was sitting on about $30,000.

Two things happened in the fall of 2017: first the service I was using, Coinbase, inexplicably said all Canadians had to find a new wallet / exchange and gave very little notice. I scrambled and searched up the largest / best service operating in Canada at the time and moved my stash over.

The second thing that happened was Jamie Dimon came out with his infamous “fraud” comments. I was and remain a fan of his. I was sitting on a nice six-bagger so I liquidated my coins and proceeded to try to cash out.

Well in my scramble to find a new service that worked in Canada I had found myself at QuadrigaCX. I’ll cut it short but in the end in fact I did get my proceeds but only because I was VERY persistent over a number of weeks. I believe I was corresponding with Gerald Cotton himself in the emails as later it turned out he did basically everything there and if I recall correctly there were basically no other employees. To this day I believe the only reason I got my money back was because I inundated the guy with messages and became the squeakiest wheel.

Finally, yes I understand that my stash would today be worth about $750,000 USD. But if I’d have HEDL I’m sure my dude would have taken my stash to India where he seems to have met his demise. I don’t think people got much if any out after Quadriga blew up.