CEO of Crypto Company...
1) Takes time off to build orphanage in region noted for fake deaths.
2) Subsequently dies unexpectedly.
3) Is immediately cremated.
4) Wife waits a month before saying "oh by the way he is dead"
5) Wife claims all keys on encrypted laptop
6) World watches as wallets mysteriously empty
7) Experts crack laptop
8) All wallets turn up in fact empty
9) $140 million disappears into the ether
Another thing you could work into the plot is $9m appears to be with WB21 "Banking Redefined" which claimed a million users but was discovered to only have 135 downloads of its app (now removed), is run by a convicted fraudster and was awarded "Global Banker Award 2018" in a black tie ceremony that they seem to have set up themselves to give themselves the award (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbKMdhpwbaw). They are still going I think if you are looking for a safe place to put your money. https://amycastor.com/2019/03/01/diving-into-wb21-the-compan...
It was like you were watching his fantasy of what people would say about him if he was a productive member of society instead of a criminal and fraud.
[1] Curries favor with the awardees, creates an 'in group' etc...
>epaulets, uniform, position: it has nothing to do with something intrinsic of that person.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697641324/better-than-cash-ho...
I’m sure he went to bed proud pulling all that off. It still looks like a lot of work.
OMG that trophy is indistinguishable from any other tacky chunk of lucite that, say, a particularly motivated carpet distributor might earn as a sales award.
Not to insult carpet distributors, whose work with tangible goods is worth at minimum 500x more than what any fintech slob contributes to the world.
I think it would be best done with the production values of "Catch Me If You Can."
I wonder what all the white paper consultants are doing now that their profession is over?
Probably working on a cannabis company.
A search of synopses and/or other elements might produce something closer to the original request, though I'm not aware of a good resource for this.
The fact that there are multiple extant and in-production projects does suggest some general interest, though.
10) The CEO was really an actor... hired by the "wife", who masterminded the whole thing
Alternative plot twist:
10b) Both the CEO and wife are hired actors. The head of the orphanage was the mastermind
Deeds for properties she bought in 2016 show she was once known as Jennifer Forgeron. On Dec. 1, 2016, Nova Scotia's Royal Gazette announced she was changing her name from Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Griffith to her current name, Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Robertson."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quadrigacx-nova-s...
The orphans are the mastermind. The headmaster was nothing more than two kids in a suit. They're all on a beach sipping capri sun playing nintendo switch.
There is a place that is known for this specifically? Where can I read more about this?
There are companies that have stocks of decades or century-old paper that they use to forge aged government documents. I can't find a link to a story at the moment :-(
I don't understand how that becomes a reference point for any region being known for fake deaths. The search results in fact make it look like someone used his death to slander a whole region.
I mean WOW. In just a few words you manage to describe one of the biggest problem we have today. Luckily Most of the HN crowds are not interested in the "Answer", but why it is the answer. And whether the why was plausible.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/philipp...
What is the average life expectancy there?
That will be a much less exciting scene in the movie. Itll be some dramatized "people around a computer watching traceroute"
I missed this. Are there transactions showing the money moving from the cold storage address(es) after his (alleged) death?