He drowned and now his heirs no longer know how to access $ 2 billion in Bitcoin

Popescu, only 41 years old, was considered one of the largest individual holders of digital assets in the world and as one of the early and most ambitious entrepreneurs in technology and the “Bitcoin value exchange”, according to trade media.

In 2012, he founded MPEx, the currency exchange website that spawned Bitcoin’s first IPOs, which put it in the sights of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

But now, with her death, all of that fortune would remain “in digital limbo“, because your heirs do not know how to access these assets valued, as stated, in billions of dollars.

“It appears that with the deaths of Mircea Popescu and John McAfee, a significant sum of $ BTC could be lost forever,” Alexander Marder, research analyst at Crypto Briefing, said on his Twitter account.

Indeed, John McAfee, creator of the eponymous antivirus, he committed suicide ten days ago in a Spanish prison, where he had been detained for several months while waiting to be extradited to the United States: the justice of this country accused him of evading millions of dollars in taxes on profits from cryptocurrency trading.

Interpol had included him on its list of most wanted people by priority code red at the request of states, and he was arrested when he tried to escape from Barcelona airport to Turkey in October of l ‘last year.