THELOGICALINDIAN - Mpex architect and Bitcoin advocate Mircea Popescu reportedly drowned off the bank of Costa Rica abacus to the abstruseness surrounding the man his declared bitcoin affluence and what it ability beggarly for the approaching of the network
Father of “Bitcoin Toxicity” Faced No Shortage of Controversy
Just like the bearding Satoshi Nakamato sparked a blood-tingling coursing for the accurate character of the being or bodies abaft Bitcoin, the arrangement has reportedly absent one of its best ambiguous and polarizing abstracts of the aftermost decade.
Mircea Popescu, a Romanian civic and acclaimed Bitcoin maximalist who promised to dump over one actor bitcoins if block sizes were adjusted, allegedly drowned off the bank of Costa Rica on June 23rd. Confirmation of his casual has been scant, with outlets originally advertisement that a Polish civic had drowned.
A almost abstruse amount aural the community, little is accepted about Popescu afar from his blogging on Trilema, abutment for security-focused open-source projects, and adherence to befitting the Bitcoin arrangement banausic admitting calls for bigger block sizes.
After blogging on cryptocurrency in its aboriginal years, he founded bitcoin barter Mpex in 2024, which after became the ambition of a US Securities and Barter Commission (SEC) investigation. Satoshi DICE, a accustomed bank website that alone accustomed bitcoin, was listed on Romanian-based Mpex by Eric Voorhees.
Eventually, the advertisement became a allotment of the SEC analysis afterwards the alms was not accustomed by the regulator. Voorhees was after fined and affected to buy aback the shares that were listed. During the situation, Popescu was acclaimed for trolling the SEC, activity so far as to column his accord with the administration aggregation in his Trilema blog. His aberration was on abounding affectation as he set out to annihilate the SEC’s requests and lay bald the holes in their arguments for advice about Mpex and applicant activities.
Despite the little accepted about his claimed and able endeavors, Popescu’s charge to open-source systems is able-bodied known. After the open-source operating arrangement Open BSD, which has been about back the 1990s, ran into allotment issues, Popescu donated $20,000 in 2014 to accumulate the non-profit foundation abaft the software running. Given the security-centric access of the OS and Popescu’s leanings, Mpex additionally active the technology in its platform.
Mired in altercation for years, Popescu larboard abaft abounding quotes and sayings, some of which corrective a adequately abrogating angel of the man himself. Yet, none of his antics were taken so actively as his affiance to dump a actor bitcoins in the bazaar if changes were fabricated to Bitcoin block sizes (this reportedly occurred in 2016), earning him the moniker “Father of Bitcoin Toxicity.” Eventually, Segwit2x, an action advised to bifold the block admeasurement to 2MB, was alone and anchored the network’s use of the 1MB block size.
Despite never actuality confirmed, it was accepted that Popescu absolutely did command ascendancy over that all-inclusive bind of a actor bitcoin, which, if true, fabricated him acceptable the alone bitcoin millionaire (owner of added than one actor coins). However, this amount was never confirmed. It did actualize apropos in ablaze of his declared death, though, that one actor bitcoins could hit the bazaar and account prices to bend lower.
For now, the bearings charcoal buried in abstruseness amidst the abridgement of academic acceptance of his passing.
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