One of the largest owners of bitcoin, who reportedly held as much as $1 billion, is dead at 41: reports Billionaire bitcoin owner Mircea Popescu has reportedly died, leaving behind a cache of virtual currency and a controversial crypto legacy.
The bitcoin BTCUSD, 4.38% pioneer, who was believed to own over $1 billion in the world’s No. 1 crypto, making him, at the time, one of the asset’s larger single-holders, died off the coast of Costa Rica, according to a Spanish-language publication, Teletica.com, which reported last week that a foreigner had drowned at Playa Hermosa de Garabito, Puntarenas, in Costa Rica, describing the victim as a 41-year-old “of Polish origin.” However, Popescu is a well-knowned name in Romania and he has been described on some sites as a Romanian entrepreneur and blogger.
Popescu was viewed as a pioneer in digital assets and one of the earliest adopters. An article in Bitcoin Magazine written by Pete Rizzo said that Popescu was known for starting MPEx, a bitcoin securities exchange, around the same time as Coinbase Global COIN, 4.67% launched.
At its mid-April peak this year, Popescu’s bitcoin holdings would have been worth nearly $2 billion. ............
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