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The unexpected death of a controversial investor has left behind an estimated bitcoin fortune of over $ 2 billion.
Mircea Popescu drowned off the coast of Costa Rica at the age of 41, according to local reports. Speculation online has focused on what will happen to his cryptocurrency fortune.
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Popescu was an early adopter of cryptocurrency, having established the MPEx bitcoin stock exchange in 2012, but was also known to some as the father of bitcoin’s toxicity.
He was a prolific blogger, although his use of hateful language undermined many of his technical arguments defending and advocating bitcoin and its technological foundations.
Bitcoin is fate. It operates completely outside of any human agency. For everything you know about [bitcoin creator Satoshi] Nakamoto, bitcoin could just as easily have been created, he wrote in an article.
Bitcoin can kill all your friends and all the people you respect … It can poop in your drink and rape your pets … If lightning strikes where you are sitting, whether you feel warm love or the the hottest hatred imaginable is strictly irrelevant – the electricity remains.
Former CoinDesk editor-in-chief Pete Rizzo said Popescu was also an antagonist of other prominent figures in the bitcoin space in his early days.
Following the news of his death, Mr Rizzo tweeted: Mircea will remain one of bitcoin’s most vilified figures and without a doubt one of its greatest philosophers.
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