Autumn Radtke was NOT a "Bitcoin CEO" / "Bitcoin Exchange CEO"- what's going on?

[cimine]

I've been reading this story about Autumn Radtke and this one is the only one that seems be even remotely honest about the whole thing: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/05/bitcoin_ceo_suicide_not_so_fast_first_meta_s_autumn_radtke_is_dead_but_we.html (Besides the week old blog post he referenced that got no attention and stuck to the facts: [Suspicious link removed]j.com/digits/2014/02/27/american-ceo-of-singapore-startup-first-meta-dies/)

I am curious though, why has this been linked to Bitcoin at all?  As near as I can tell First Meta is primarily a site for trading online game currencies and not even a comprehensive list of them at that (where is World of Warcraft for example).  It looks like at one time they accepted Bticoin along with the gaming currencies almost as an afterthought.  I had to go all the way to their FAQ to find any reference of Bitcoin.  It doesn’t look like you can still trade in Bitcoin on First Meta at all.

Similarly her linked in profile makes no mention of Bitcoin other than that it seems to imply she attended a conference about it.

Where does this “Bitcoin Exchange CEO” even come from?

Clicking the “sell link” (https://firstmetaexchange.com/bitcoinconverter) for Bitcoin from the First Meta FAQ yields “Invalid Request”.

How do they come up with this shit?  

I'd go so far to say as this company had no more to do with Bitcoin than any random company doing anything that decided to accept Bitcoin as a payment method and then later for reasons unknown decided to stop accepting it!

Is this another story of standard media incompetence or purposeful disinformation?

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[Phinnaeus Gage]

I've been on this for the past five hours and, like you, I can't figure out where the headline stems from.

[Parliament]

She appears to have been the CEO of a "virtual currency exchange" (imagine if you wanted to trade EVE Plex for Second Life Linden). This exchange also allowed USD/EUR, so you could buy and sell these virtual currencies.

One of two things happened here: either the exchange, at some point, added BTC to their virtual currencies list (then removed it); or, the media saw "virtual currency" and jumped on the BTC news wagon.

[cimine]

One of two things happened here: either the exchange, at some point, added BTC to their virtual currencies list (then removed it); or, the media saw "virtual currency" and jumped on the BTC news wagon.

Available evidence seems to indicate that without a doubt they did add BTC to their list of currencies sometime in mid 2013 (http://blog.firstmeta.com/announcement/new-bitcoin-to-usd-conversion) and the subsequently removed it.  Calling them a "Bitcoin Exchange" seems like a bit of a stretch at the least.


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[cimine]

Venturing off topic but still... http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/afbddb44-7640-11e2-8eb6-00144feabdc0.html

And r/bitcoin on the case: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z2fi1/autumn_radtke_ceo_of_first_meta_a_singaporebased/

[#Darren]

Just the news media serving their true masters and spreading FUD.  Mainstream US news media is just one long stream of p1ss.