The Last Crash: As crypto prices fall, traders train each other to stop suicides

Four years ago, Autumn Radtke was an American living in Singapore. At just 28 years old, she was CEO of one of the earliest crypto exchanges, First Meta. In a corner of the tech world where few women are prominent, she was making a name for herself.   On February 25, 2014, the website for the Mt. Gox exchange suspended all trading as news emerged that 744,408 bitcoins—worth more than $400 million at the time—were stolen in Japan. The news depressed crypto markets around the world. A day later, police discovered Radtke’s body. As was later reported, she had googled suicide methods, found which one she thought was most effective,…