Mircea Popescu was, amongst other things, the owner/operator of Mpex, one of the first exchanges for bitcoin. He was a vocal proponent for bitcoin and called out bitcoin scams regularly, being one of the first to raise alarm bells about the BTCST Ponzi run by Trendon Shavers and MtGox.
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If accurate - and it's rather likely [1] - then the world has lost someone who was quite interesting.
Weird [2], controversial, completely unpalatable to some and hated by many, but most definitely interesting [3]
RIP Mircea, if you are indeed dead, you were certainly not boring [4]
[1] http://thewhet.net/2021/06/goodnight-sweet-master/
[2] http://trilema.com/
[3] https://archive.md/9AvNW
[4] https://archive.md/wip/cJNKb
Mircea Popescu was, amongst other things, the owner/operator of Mpex, one of the first exchanges for bitcoin. He was a vocal proponent for bitcoin and called out bitcoin scams regularly, being one of the first to raise alarm bells about the BTCST Ponzi run by Trendon Shavers and MtGox.
Thanks. I was looking in Wikipedia, but I think I only found people with the same name.
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