Bitcoin Exchange CEO Committed Suicide

[BIT-Sharon]

Should anyone who holds Bitcoins and commits suicide  attribute his death to Bitcoin?  Bitcoins has experienced several times' high-profile collapses, it still recovers from the collapse. Though it is not near from the spring of Bitcoin, it will be a day for such a digital currency of high quality.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/coroner-bitcoin-exchange-ceo-committed-suicide-25506034

[Gleb Gamow]

Should anyone who holds Bitcoins and commits suicide  attribute his death to Bitcoin?  Bitcoins has experienced several times' high-profile collapses, it still recovers from the collapse. Though it is not near from the spring of Bitcoin, it will be a day for such a digital currency of high quality.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/coroner-bitcoin-exchange-ceo-committed-suicide-25506034

I just learnt about it about an hour ago and just now eluded to it in a previous post. Interesting comments!

[Hufflepuff]

I don't think anyone should ever take their own life over Bitcoin, or any other form of currency. It doesn't seem that her work was the only contributing factor for her committing suicide. She apparently had troubles in her personal life. This is a sad thing to see, and I wish she would have taken a different route. Suicide is rarely, if ever, a good option.

[CMMPro]

This happened back in Feb people...old news brought to the surface because of the coroners report.

[hilariousandco]

No it shouldn't. In this case it was attributed to stress and personal issues. Being the CEO of any company regardless of it being bitcoin related will be stressful.

SINGAPORE — A Singapore Coroner's Court has found that the American CEO of a virtual currency exchange committed suicide earlier this year in Singapore because of work and personal issues.

[DDuckworth]

Should anyone who holds Bitcoins and commits suicide  attribute his death to Bitcoin?  Bitcoins has experienced several times' high-profile collapses, it still recovers from the collapse. Though it is not near from the spring of Bitcoin, it will be a day for such a digital currency of high quality.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/coroner-bitcoin-exchange-ceo-committed-suicide-25506034

No more than someone who holds cash and commits suicide. The relevance is always going to be situational.

[bornil267645]

I don't see how it is connected to BTC community in any way.

[ChuckBuck]

Why are we bringing up news back from February?  Sad, that Autumn Radke passed, but this is a way old headline from the beginning of this year.

Not sure how this bit of news is relevant to going ons of today.

[railzand]

Why are we bringing up news back from February?  Sad, that Autumn Radke passed, but this is a way old headline from the beginning of this year.

Not sure how this bit of news is relevant to going ons of today.

The verdict was in February? Seems like only yesterday.

[IIOII]

Should anyone who holds Bitcoins and commits suicide  attribute his death to Bitcoin?  Bitcoins has experienced several times' high-profile collapses, it still recovers from the collapse. Though it is not near from the spring of Bitcoin, it will be a day for such a digital currency of high quality.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/coroner-bitcoin-exchange-ceo-committed-suicide-25506034

Although this is old news it still makes me sad.

The death is not attributable to Bitcoin, it is attributable to perceived personal failure combined with the perception that suicide is the only way out. I think there is more than one factor that contributed to this perception.

[Rubber Ducky]

So now that the bitcoin ceo is dead I guess that's the end of that. I'll go back to my bath tub now.

[Beliathon]

This happened back in Feb people...old news brought to the surface because of the coroners report.

Yes, I remember reading about this months ago. So is this thread just rehashing old news for FUD purposes or what?

[Rubber Ducky]

OMG! The Bitcoin CEO is DEAD!

[s.mouse]

Why are we bringing up news back from February?  Sad, that Autumn Radke passed, but this is a way old headline from the beginning of this year.

Not sure how this bit of news is relevant to going ons of today.

May be unnecessary but it was due to the coroners report. The artcile was dates yesterday, so kinda new news in that respect.

[Beliathon]

OMG! The Bitcoin CEO is DEAD!

[Joshuar]

OMG! The Bitcoin CEO is DEAD!

That image pretty much sums up the Bitcoin community.

[abercrombie]

OMG, the CEO of Bitcoin committed suicide. 

Is Crypto done?? 

[ChuckBuck]

OMG, the CEO of Bitcoin committed suicide. 

Is Crypto done?? 

You know what to do.  Short BTC all the way to the bottom!  (Give us all some buying opportunites  )

[oceans]

Must have missed this news myself earlier in the year, such a shame to see someone like this take their own life because of personal and work problems. Nobody should ever feel like they can't continue in life.

[tzortz]

Very strange incident.