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Jun 30, 2021 · Mircea Popescu, 41, a Bitcoin (CCC: BTC-USD) billionaire, was found dead off the coast of Costa Rica on June 23. Source: Shutterstock. Here’s everything you need to know about Mircea Popescu...
- Autumn Radtke
- Gerald Cotten
- Matthew Mellon
- Mircea Popescu
- Nikolai Mushegian
- Vyacheslav Taran
- Tiantian Kullander
Among the earliest deaths to fuel speculation in some conspiracy theory circles is that of 28-year-old Autumn Radtke, who died in 2014. The CEO of currency exchange First MetaPte Ltd, Radtke died in Singapore, with a Singapore Coroner's Court ruling her death as suicide. The coroner, cited by Singapore's Straits Times,found no foul play, noting tha...
Among the most controversial deaths in the cryptocurrency industry was that of Gerald Cotten, the founder of Quadriga CX, once Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange, who died during his honeymoon with his wife, Jennifer Robertson, in Jaipur, India, in 2018. According to an investigation by Canada's Globe and Mail, Cotten, 30 died from complicati...
The same year, Matthew Mellon, a banking heir and crypto billionaire, died unexpectedly. Mellon reportedly had longstanding issues with drugs. His net worth on paper was reported by Money to be around $1 billion. Both he and Gerald Cottenhave been drawn into conspiratorial claims about their deaths. An unnamed source told the Daily Mailin 2018 abou...
Three years later, in 2021, Romanian Bitcoin investor Mircea Popescu died, leaving a fortune thought to be worth more than $2 billion, according to a variety of media sources. The figure appears to be based on his estimated holdings of 30,000 Bitcoin at what was the cryptocurrency's peak before his death. Popescu was said to have drowned off the co...
The first among the group of notable crypto entrepreneurs who died this year was Nikolai Mushegian. Mushegian was, according to CoinDesk, an early developer of MakerDAO, described as "the largest decentralized finance protocol"—a type of financial technologydesigned to remove third parties and centralized institutions from monetary transactions. An...
On November 25, 2022, Forex Club founder and billionaire Vyacheslav Taran, who had investments in blockchain-linked projects, died in a helicopter crash near his home in south-eastern France. "The Russian Embassy confirms the death of Vyacheslav Taran in a helicopter crash that occurred on Friday in the area of Villefranche-sur-Mer commune," Alexan...
The same week of Taran's death, Tiantian Kullander, a co-founder of digital asset company Amber Group, died in his sleep on November 23, 2022. According to an Amber Group press release, his company was said to have been valued at $3 billion. A statement by Amber Groupread: "It is with the deepest sadness and a heavy heart that we inform you of the ...
- Tom Norton
Jul 2, 2021 · Alexander Marder, a research analyst for Crypto Briefing, said on Twitter that Popescu’s Bitcoins may be lost forever, along with those of John McAfee, the antivirus software pioneer who hanged...
- Will Feuer
Jul 1, 2021 · 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.
Jul 3, 2021 · Billionaire bitcoin owner Mircea Popescu has reportedly died, leaving behind a cache of virtual currency and a controversial crypto legacy.
Jun 28, 2021 · Popescu, rumored to be one of the largest individual bitcoin holders – he has claimed to hold 1 million coins, though more conservative estimates place his holdings in the tens of thousands — is believed to have died at the age of 41, according to a story first surfacing in a Costa Rican news report this week.
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Jul 2, 2021 · Romanian bitcoin blogger and billionaire Mircea Popescu, 41, believed to be one of the largest owners of the cryptocurrency, has reportedly died in a drowning incident off the Costa Rican coast.
