Bitcointalk user Joerii passed away...

[Turing]

A few days ago I got the news that Bitcointalk member Joerii (Joeri Pross) passed away, leaving behind a wife and 2 young kids.

A lot of you may have known him as he was one of the "oldbie" users on this forum and community manager for a lot of projects, like Factom.

He went missing august 30th and his body was found september 2nd.

https://hypercube-agency.com/in-memory-of-joeri-pross/

https://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20230902_29844675

https://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20230904_76160519

As stated in the second article, there's a "GoFundMe" started for his wife and kids.
Already 585 donations have been made and €18,315 has been raised.


~ Turing

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I do not know him, probably because he was not that active again after August 2017. May his soul rest in peace.

Not sure where to post this, "serious discussion" seemed the most fit.

You supposed to post it on reputation board. Move it to reputation board. Just scroll down on this thread, you will see move topic, click on it and move it to reputation board.

[Turing]

I do not know him, probably because he was not that active again after August 2017. May his soul rest in peace.

Not sure where to post this, "serious discussion" seemed the most fit.

You supposed to post it on reputation board. Move it to reputation board. Just scroll down on this thread, you will see move topic, click on it and move it to reputation board.

Thank you, I have moved it.

[Poker Player]

I do not know him, probably because he was not that active again after August 2017. May his soul rest in peace.

Me neither, probably for the same reason but I felt a little sorry for him because he looked young. In the end, Bitcointalk is like life itself, with the only difference that we don't see each other's faces here.

I see the gofundme has exceeded the expected amount already, at least it will help the wife and kids a little with material issues. May he rest in peace.

[Turing]

I do not know him, probably because he was not that active again after August 2017. May his soul rest in peace.

Me neither, probably for the same reason but I felt a little sorry for him because he looked young. In the end, Bitcointalk is like life itself, with the only difference that we don't see each other's faces here.

I see the gofundme has exceeded the expected amount already, at least it will help the wife and kids a little with material issues. May he rest in peace.

Thank you.

Yes, the Gofundme has reached the expected amount to cover some initial costs. But to stay in their house, a little more (around €32.000 more) is still needed, so it's still open for donations.

Quoted from the article in "Noordhollands Dagblad":

Zijn familie is nu een inzamelingsactie gestart. Doel is om vijftigduizend euro op te halen. ’Joeri was de enige kostwinner van zijn jonge gezin. Joeri heeft twee jonge meisjes die voor de rest van hun leven zonder hun vader moeten. We zullen als familie er alles aan doen om te zorgen dat zijn vrouw opgevangen wordt, financieel geholpen wordt, en wordt bijgestaan in iedere stap van dit gruwelijke verwerkingsproces’, aldus de tekst bij de inzamelingsactie.

translated:

His family has now started a fundraising campaign. The goal is to raise fifty thousand euros. 'Yuri was the sole breadwinner of his young family. Joeri has two young girls who have to live without their father for the rest of their lives. As a family, we will do everything we can to ensure that his wife is taken care of, is helped financially, and is assisted in every step of this gruesome recovery process," says the text of the fundraising campaign.

I don't expect to find donations on a forum where everyone is pretty much anonymous but every Euro counts...

[Poker Player]

Yes, the Gofundme has reached the expected amount to cover some initial costs. But to stay in their house, a little more (around €32.000 more) is still needed, so it's still open for donations.

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I don't expect to find donations on a forum where everyone is pretty much anonymous but every Euro counts...

I don't understand why they only put €16,000 as a goal, then, and not €32,000, I guess with the emotional shock they didn't think about it properly. Don't they accept donations in Bitcoin, apart from gofundme? For a previous forum member I suppose it would be logical but I imagine that the wife or the person who organized the gofundme may not have a clue.

[Eternad]

I remember that he manage one campaign here before that offers highest rate among all campaign's except Chipmixer. Mintlayer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5366033.0) is the campaign I was referring. I didn't manage to join on this campaign since I'm enrolled on different campaigns but I'm sure that participants of his campaign will remember him since he offer a high paying campaign that time without a problem.

@Turing, Do you knew hum personally? Condolence to his family.

[Turing]

Yes, the Gofundme has reached the expected amount to cover some initial costs. But to stay in their house, a little more (around €32.000 more) is still needed, so it's still open for donations.

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I don't expect to find donations on a forum where everyone is pretty much anonymous but every Euro counts...

I don't understand why they only put €16,000 as a goal, then, and not €32,000, I guess with the emotional shock they didn't think about it properly. Don't they accept donations in Bitcoin, apart from gofundme? For a previous forum member I suppose it would be logical but I imagine that the wife or the person who organized the gofundme may not have a clue.

The goal is €50,000
But you're probably right, for a lot of people bitcoin and crypto is still very vague and unknown.
I imagine GoFundMe has, in some way, have to make sure they know where donations are coming from, so an anonymous currency doesn't really work out that well. Donation under €2,240 (per donor) are tax-exempted in The Netherlands, so as long as each individual donor stays under that amount, the receiver doesn't have to pay taxes. Over €2,240 it's 30% iirc.

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I remember that he manage one campaign here before that offers highest rate among all campaign's except Chipmixer. Mintlayer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5366033.0) is the campaign I was referring. I didn't manage to join on this campaign since I'm enrolled on different campaigns but I'm sure that participants of his campaign will remember him since he offer a high paying campaign that time without a problem.

@Turing, Do you knew hum personally? Condolence to his family.

I spoke to him on Telegram a lot, he always had ideas and was very creative, driven and he really could organize something and keep his promises.
Honest and generous too, not really caring about money but more about "being part of the game" in general.

I'm not saying I was among his best friends but we got along fine and had many things / interests in common.

"De mortuis nil nisi bonum", the Romans said. But about him, I couldn't think of any negative.

[Little Mouse]

As far as I know, he was a part of the mintlayer project. It was a quite different altcoin project, not like the traditional one. He managed a campaign for mintlayer here last year.

RIP, Joerii!!

[LoyceV]

leaving behind a wife and 2 young kids.

As a dad with young kids, that is my greatest fear. RIP.

Donation under €2,240 (per donor) are tax-exempted in The Netherlands, so as long as each individual donor stays under that amount, the receiver doesn't have to pay taxes.

For what it's worth: donations from other countries are in general tax-exempted, without limit on the amount.

[Eternad]

I remember that he manage one campaign here before that offers highest rate among all campaign's except Chipmixer. Mintlayer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5366033.0) is the campaign I was referring. I didn't manage to join on this campaign since I'm enrolled on different campaigns but I'm sure that participants of his campaign will remember him since he offer a high paying campaign that time without a problem.

@Turing, Do you knew hum personally? Condolence to his family.

I spoke to him on Telegram a lot, he always had ideas and was very creative, driven and he really could organize something and keep his promises.
Honest and generous too, not really caring about money but more about "being part of the game" in general.

I'm not saying I was among his best friends but we got along fine and had many things / interests in common.

"De mortuis nil nisi bonum", the Romans said. But about him, I couldn't think of any negative.

It’s surprising that he disclosed his personal information to you while you are friends on telegram and in the forum. Glad that you share this here so that his account can be preserved against hacker that might hack and sold it to new user. A new user can impersonate the old owner if ever you didn’t brought up this thread.

RIP to manager Joerii. Done donating using google pay. It's that the site doesn't reflect immediately my donation despite its already charge on my visa card. I hope this platform accept crypto tho.

[BITCOIN4X]

To be honest, I don't know him, in fact I didn't realize that he had handled several campaigns to the extent that he was active as a forum user. But however, it is always sad to hear that someone is die and leaving his wife and children without proper financial provisions. Of course, everyone is afraid of this, but as a fellow user of the bitcointalk forum, I also express my condolences to him.

However, the question that may be right now is not the amount of donations the family received, but whether the Joerii family also managed to gain access to a number of Joerii crypto storage wallets?

[Turing]

To be honest, I don't know him, in fact I didn't realize that he had handled several campaigns to the extent that he was active as a forum user. But however, it is always sad to hear that someone is die and leaving his wife and children without proper financial provisions. Of course, everyone is afraid of this, but as a fellow user of the bitcointalk forum, I also express my condolences to him.

However, the question that may be right now is not the amount of donations the family received, but whether the Joerii family also managed to gain access to a number of Joerii crypto storage wallets?

As far as I know he wasn't a "big roller" in crypto, he had a family to support, a mortgage to pay, etc. We never talked about money, as I said, he just liked to be part of it, "being in the crypto game". Just earning his money, being creative with a team of people (see first link in opening post).

And right now, nobody is earning the money for his family.

For me, it's pretty much the same, crypto didn't make me rich but it got me into a job I wouldn't be in without the existence of crypto.

[JeromeTash]

It's very sad to know about his tragic death, May his Soul Rest in peace. I think I first got to see his profile when he launched some well paying signature campaign some time back. My thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. May they find the strength and courage to overcome this trying moment.

[SatoPrincess]

It’s so sad to hear we lost a member, in a forum that’s anonymous like this, there are many times things may happen to one of us and the community may never hear about it. My condolences to his family, I don’t think they know much about his bitcointalk account, they have so much going on right now that the last place they would look is a forum account. I’m not familiar with the user, even though he was a campaign manager and was active until 2021. I think a neutral tag should be given to the account so even if it’s hacked in the future, we will know for sure that the account changed hands.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

This is such a sad news, I don't know this user particular because he seems not to be that active on the forum anymore, put I am very touched by this news of his demise because I personally don't like coming across such news of we losing a forum member here, maybe because we are generally like family here.

And again, being a man as well who currently have a wife and two young daughters as well, ( 7 and 2 respectively) makes this whole thing more touching, but I understand that death is something we all owe and a price we all must pay, I pray his soul find rest in the Bossom of his creator, and that almighty God give his family the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss .

[dkbit98]

A few days ago I got the news that Bitcointalk member Joerii (Joeri Pross) passed away, leaving behind a wife and 2 young kids.

I never knew the guy in forum but I am sorry to hear this
He was only 40 to die unexpected suddenly, but I hear a lot more cases like this in last few years.
I was reading news reports you posted translated from Dutch and they are not saying what was the cause of death, but they know he it was not a crime, he just went out to walk.
Did they found out the real cause of his death? I saw in gofundeme that he died from fatal accident as he slipped and fall into water.
RIP

[_BlackStar]

Of course this is sad news for his family, relatives and anyone who knew him. I never knew Joerii - so I don't know much about him. Some users like joker_josue, coupable, dragonvslinux seem to have often deal with Joerii - so I think he is a well-known user too.

Even though I didn't know him - but as a fellow forum user I am also sorry to hear the news of his death. With that - my condolences and hope that he and all his goodness will be placed among good people. RIP - Joerii.

[LDL]

Humans are naturally mortal according to the conventional rules. Every living being will accept the eternal reality of death."Joerii" used to spend his precious time on the forum but it is very sad to say that he is no longer alive in this world. We lost a distinguished user like " RIP Joerii ". We will always miss him on the forum. I pray to the Lord to grant him happiness in the afterlife and to give patience to each one of his family members to overcome the grief.

Rip Joerii
May God keep your soul in peace.

[roksana.hee]

May his soul rest in peace and may God grant his family the strength to endure this great pain.