Popescu Mircha (Mircea Popescu)

Popescu Mircha (Mircea Popescu)

Biography

2013-2016

In 2013, Popescu sold the SatoshiDice project for 125 thousand bitcoins, and for two years he owned the MPEx exchange. The billionaire noted that Bitcoin "is the most important project of mankind." In 2016, according to unofficial data, there were about one million bitcoins in his accounts.

In 2015, he offered $500 in bitcoins per head to developer Peter Wulle, who advocated an automatic 17% increase in bitcoins every four years. In turn, Popescu and his supporters fought to maintain the block size of 1 MB, which later happened. Activists even threatened to collapse the market by selling 1 million bitcoins.

2021: Pacific Ocean Holiday Deaths

At the end of June 2021, it became known about the death of cryptocurrency billionaire Mircea Popescu. According to preliminary data, a 41-year-old investor drowned Pacific Ocean in on the coast of Costa Rica.

According to Trustnodes, citing the local Department of Judicial Investigations (OIJ), Mircea Popescu, while vacationing on Jacó Beach (Costa Rica), entered the water to swim, but he was carried away by the current. Local rescuers say that this place is very dangerous, since the current there is really strong. Law enforcers suggest that it was this factor that caused the death of Popescu.

The death of Popescu was confirmed by the partner of the crypto fund Adamant Capital Tour Demeester and web developer Diana Coman.

Mircea Popescu was one of those I call "sleeping giants." The guy had so many bitcoins to do everything he wanted in life. He could at one moment collapse Bitcoin to virtually zero and keep the price for some time. He aroused little sympathy, but laid the foundations of what we have today, "wrote an anonymous marketmaker under the nickname i.am.nomad.

The Popescu family does not have access to its digital assets and accumulated bitcoins (its fortune by the end of June 2021 is estimated at $34 billion) may disappear from the market forever.^[1]

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