by Peter Belifiore at The Daily Mail
The sudden death of 41-year-old Mircea Popescu, an early adopter of Bitcoin, has left cryptocurrency experts speculating on what will happen to the estimated $2 billion worth that he owned.
There has so far been no word on who has access to his digital assets, believed to be some of the largest in the world, fueling unconfirmed rumors that the fortune could be gone.
Popescu drowned Monday morning off the coast of Costa Rica near Playa Hermosa, according to local news reports.
Rumors have swirled online that Popescu’s family does not have access to his digital assets.
Alexander Marder, a research analyst for Crypto Briefing said that without that access, they could be off the market.
‘It looks like that with the deaths of Mircea Popescu and John McAfee a significant amount of $BTC might be lost forever. RIP’ he tweeted.
Software giant McAffee died in an apparent apparent suicide last week in a prison cell in Barcelona, and was also believed to have a large fortune in the cryptocurrency…
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