Father of Bitcoin Toxicity' Mircea Popescu Reportedly Dead at 41

The unexpected death of a controversial investor has left behind a bitcoin fortune estimated to be worth more than $2 billion.Mircea Popescu drowned off the coast of Costa Rica at the age of 41, according to local reports. Online speculation has centred around what will happen to his cryptocurrency fortune.Popescu was an early adopter of the cryptocurrency, having established the “bitcoin securities exchange” MPEx in 2012, but was also known by some as “the father of bitcoin toxicity”.He was a prolific blogger, though his use of hateful language undermined many of his technical arguments defending and advocating bitcoin and its technological underpinnings.“Bitcoin is fate. It operates completely outside of any human agency. For all you know about [bitcoin creator Satoshi] Nakamoto, bitcoin might as well have created itself,” he wrote in one post.“Bitcoin can kill all your friends and all the people you respect