Bitcoin billionaire drowns while swimming, leaving $2 billion crypto fortune in limbo mazech.com

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Mircea Popescu, dubbed ‘the father of bitcoin toxicity’, has suddenly died, leaving behind a massive crypto fortune estimated to worth over $2 billion.

The sudden death of 41-year-old Romanian billionaire has left cryptocurrency experts speculating his crypto fortune could be lost forever.

Popescu drowned on Monday off the coast of Costa Rica near Playa Hermosa after going for a morning swim, according to local news reports.

The billionaire was reportedly “swept away by the current and died on the spot.”

There has so far been no word on who has access to Popescu’s digital assets, believed to be some of the largest in the world, fueling rumors that the fortune could be gone forever.

In similar incident, software giant John McAffee was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide last week. He was also believed to have a large fortune in the cryptocurrency.

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