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Bitcoin billionaire drowns in Costa Rica

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Costa Rica / Romania. Mirzia Popescu, a Romanian crypto pioneer and billionaire, has died at the age of 41. According to a media report, he was swept away by the waves on Wednesday off the coast of Costa Rica at the Playa Hermosa Holiday Resort. According to a report on the news site “Teletica”, the pope drowned at 8:30 p.m.

The 41-year-old is one of the largest individual investors in bitcoin. “The Independent” says Popescu’s wallet contains one million coins and is worth about two billion US dollars.

Considered a Romanian crypto pioneer and founded one of the first online exchanges in 2012 – the Bitcoin platform MPX. There you can pay for shares and bonds with bitcoins.

What will happen to his bitcoin luck?

The cryptocurrency world is now wondering: what will happen to its bitcoin luck? It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. Otherwise, one million bitcoins will be irretrievably lost.

“With the deaths of Mircia Popescu and John McAfee, significant amounts of Bitcoin have been lost forever,” tweeted crypto analyst Alexander Mardar.

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