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'''Autumn Radtke''' wwas CEO of [[First Meta]], a Bitcoin exchange.
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'''Autumn Radtke''' was CEO of [[First Meta]], a [[Bitcoin]] exchange.
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==Activities==
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Radtke reportedly moved from [[California]] to [[Singapore]] in January 2012 to take up the post as head of [[First Meta]].<ref name=NYDN>https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bitcoin-ceo-researched-suicide-life-coroner-article-1.1941010</ref>
  
 
==Death==
 
==Death==
Autumn Radtke was found dead, having fallen from her apartment in [[Singapore]]. Local media reported it is a [[suicide]]. The ''[[Huffington Post]]'' termed it a "Suspected Suicide".<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/05/autumn-radtke-dead_n_4904324.html</ref> The ''[[New York Post]]'' referred to it as a "questionable financial-sector death".<ref>http://nypost.com/2014/03/05/bitcoin-firm-ceo-found-dead-in-suspected-suicide/</ref>
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Autumn Radtke was found dead, having fallen from her 16th storey apartment in [[Singapore]]. Local media reported it is a [[suicide]]. The ''[[Huffington Post]]'' and the ''[[Daily Mail]]''<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573863/Bitcoin-exchange-CEO-dead-home-suspected-suicide-age-28.html</ref> termed it a "Suspected Suicide".<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/05/autumn-radtke-dead_n_4904324.html</ref> The ''[[New York Post]]'' referred to it as a "questionable financial-sector death".<ref>http://nypost.com/2014/03/05/bitcoin-firm-ceo-found-dead-in-suspected-suicide/</ref> Some were more sceptical.<ref>https://www.inquisitr.com/1160604/did-autumn-radtke-bitcoin-businesswoman-really-commit-suicide/</ref>
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===Suicide ruling===
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The coroner ruled that the death was a suicide, noting that she had expressed suicidal thoughts separately to two of her friends in the days before her death and visited suicide-related websites.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140916095648/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/first-meta-ceo-was/1363056.html</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 21:34, 18 December 2019

Person.png Autumn RadtkeRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businesswoman)
Autumn Radtke.jpg
Died28 February 2014
Singapore
Cause of death
fall
Victim ofpremature death
A tech-valley CEO of a bitcoin exchange who died a violent death, aged 28. It was ruled a suicide.

Autumn Radtke was CEO of First Meta, a Bitcoin exchange.

Activities

Radtke reportedly moved from California to Singapore in January 2012 to take up the post as head of First Meta.[1]

Death

Autumn Radtke was found dead, having fallen from her 16th storey apartment in Singapore. Local media reported it is a suicide. The Huffington Post and the Daily Mail[2] termed it a "Suspected Suicide".[3] The New York Post referred to it as a "questionable financial-sector death".[4] Some were more sceptical.[5]

Suicide ruling

The coroner ruled that the death was a suicide, noting that she had expressed suicidal thoughts separately to two of her friends in the days before her death and visited suicide-related websites.[6]

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