When it comes to its business practices, online retailer Overstock and its CEO Patrick Byrne have a history of being unconventional. From being the first major retailer to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment, to creating a subsidiary which uses the blockchain and related technologies to build services that can track the exchange of financial securities, to Byrne's relentless crusade against Wall Street, all the way to being a quasi prepper (recall "Overstock Holds 3 Months Of Food, $10 Million In Gold For Employees In Preparation For The Next Collapse").

So it is only fitting that when Patrick Byrne unexpectedly announced he would take an indefinite leave of absence for medical reasons this morning, that he would do it the way he does everything else. Unconventionally.

Here is the full press release: