A coroner's court in Singapore has ruled the death of an American Bitcoin exchange CEO a suicide.
Autumn Radtke, who died at 28 years old on Feb. 26, committed suicide in Singapore, according to the coroner's report, released Monday. Radtke owned a startup company, First Meta, that facilitated trades of Bitcoin as well as other digital currencies. Radke died around the same time that another popular Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, collapsed last winter, inviting speculation about her death.
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