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A Billionaire Drowned. No One Can Access His $2B In Cryptocurrency

Controversial Bitcoin billionaire Mircea Popescu, 41, drowned on a beach in Costa Rica and now no one knows how to access his more than $2 billion in cryptocurrencies. Popescu, known for being among the largest individual Bitcoin holders in the world at one point, drowned last week near Playa Hermosa, northwest of Costa Rica. He had gone swimming near the…

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