If accurate - and it's rather likely [1] - then the world has lost someone who was quite interesting.<p>Weird [2], controversial, completely unpalatable to some and hated by many, but most definitely interesting [3]<p>RIP Mircea, if you are indeed dead, you were certainly not boring [4]<p>[1] <a href="http://thewhet.net/2021/06/goodnight-sweet-master/" rel="nofollow">http://thewhet.net/2021/06/goodnight-sweet-master/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://trilema.com/" rel="nofollow">http://trilema.com/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://archive.md/9AvNW" rel="nofollow">https://archive.md/9AvNW</a><p>[4] <a href="https://archive.md/wip/cJNKb" rel="nofollow">https://archive.md/wip/cJNKb</a>
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.