BTC billionaire Mircea Popescu found dead. One week from McAfee
Mircea Popescu was found dead, drowned off the coast of Costa Rica. The founder of Mpex and Bitcoin evangelist was only 41 and, if his claims were true, he was one of the largest personal holders of Bitcoin.
While he wasn't sure how much Mircea held in virtual currencies, he claimed to own around one million BTC. However, it is believed that a more accurate count would be in the tens of thousands, which could still add up to billions of dollars worth in Bitcoin, making him an avid "Hodler" and one of the richest singles with BTC.
One of the world's largest bitcoin hodlers, Mircea Popescu, died in Costa Rica – according to some reports, he was holding 1,000,000 bitcoins. pic.twitter.com/bRZzYTnf5K
– Crypto Dream (@_Crypto_Dream) June 28, 2021
Mircea Popescu, a Romanian citizen, but probably born in Poland, was a very controversial character: one of the first Bitcoin Evangelists, he was also a person with a very strong character and not soft beliefs, In the past he was called a fascist, sexist, racist, in short a bit of everything, and with his character he had played a large part of the sympathies, keeping only a very limited group of faithful.
Mircea Popescu was also the founder of Mpex. This company is a Romania-based cryptocurrency exchange used primarily for options trading, a method used by day traders to make more money with fewer investments.
While Mpex was successful on its own, Popescu was known for allowing the listing of Satoshi DICE. A popular gaming site that only accepted Bitcoin.
Once the SEC gained knowledge of this site and was aware of the huge amounts of Bitcoin betting, it launched an investigation. Popescu is well known for trolling the SEC by posting all interactions and opinions on his blog during the investigation.
After John McAfee, another private person is leaving who believed a lot in Bitcoin, but who, unlike the American, was still well endowed with money. A case? if it was it is a very special and very unfortunate case.
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/146461-2/ on Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:25:10 +0000.