On April 5, the crypto world was in sorrow after receiving devastating news from the United States. Bob Lee, one of the primary developers of Block‘s Cash App (ex-Square), died as a result of a knife assault in San Francisco (California). The disaster occurred on April 4, 2023. According to the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), officers located a bloodied victim, a 43-year-old man, after responding to a stabbing call.
First Aid did not Save Bob Lee
Despite the fact that first aid was performed and the injured individual was brought to the hospital, his stab wounds proved lethal, and the victim didn’t survive. When the SFPD‘s murder division began conducting an investigation into this occurrence, the identity of the victim was discovered the next day. Bob Lee is a significant contributor to the cryptosphere and digital payments.
On April 5, several cryptocurrency enthusiasts, including Bill Barhydt, CEO of the Abra mobile crypto wallet initiative, reported this tragic loss. “I just found out that our friend Bob Lee was murdered in San Francisco.”
Bob Lee was a Prominent Figure
Bob Lee was previously the chief technology officer (CTO) of Square, which has now rebranded itself as Block, and has just become the product manager (CPO) of the MobileCoin cryptocurrency project.
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has also paid tribute to his former executive. Hence, Twitter’s creator remembered that Bob Lee “had a key role” in the development of the Cash App digital payment program, which was recently linked to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
Prior to that, Bob Lee was an important participant in the development of the Android smartphone operating system. As a result, a significant figure in digital payments and crypto departed us at the beginning of April 2023.