Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Commits Suicide

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Quote from: Xampeuu on August 01, 2021, 11:24:06 PM

I also think like that. he is smart and has a lot of money. life in prison I don't think it will degrade his psychology, considering the many experiences he has gone through, and of course not all of them are sweet, but we don't know what is going on, he can do anything with his money.

In my opinion, he was too egoistic to admit his defeat. He chose death over deportation to the United States. A lot of people have posted various conspiracy theories related to his death. Some even claim that he was killed by the illuminati. But for me, it is clear what happened with McAfee. He was able to stay immune from the authorities for many decades. But when they caught up with him, he could not get adjusted with the new reality. It was his choice, and now let's stop blaming others for what he did.

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Quote from: ene1980 on August 01, 2021, 06:50:02 PM

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Maybe he'd rather die than live in prison. A very influential person in the field of technology and he is also a software expert. Maybe he was ashamed of living in prison. Life in prison will also make him a long-lasting frustration.

John McAfee was an expert but he messed up big time promoting scam projects and if you were in the market during the ICO boom you would know that as he promoted scam projects and many fell for the trap thinking he did his research before promoting them but later came to know that he would promote anything if anyone pays him.

I am not buying that he committed suicide and we might not know the truth.

I also think like that. he is smart and has a lot of money. life in prison I don't think it will degrade his psychology, considering the many experiences he has gone through, and of course not all of them are sweet, but we don't know what is going on, he can do anything with his money.

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Quote from: Rruchi man on August 01, 2021, 03:37:23 PM

It's such a pity. The world has lost a great person. Suicidal ideation is a severe symptom of depression. I read he was put under a suicide watch due to a failed suicidal attempt. My question is, why wasn't he placed in a therapeutic restraints for someone with a history?
Well, he's dead now we probably won't hear this side of the story.
I pray his soul finds peace.

Well.. it is funny.. If someone steals $10, then the society will label him as a thief. On the other hand, if someone steals $10 million, then he will be recalled as a "great person" or as a legend. John McAfee did a lot of positive contributions in the field of antivirus protection. But his overall involvement with cryptocurrency was mostly negative, and his promotions resulted in huge losses for those who followed his advice. And the worst thing was that McAfee actually mocked his victims, saying that they were stupid to trust him.

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Quote from: ene1980 on August 01, 2021, 06:50:02 PM

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Maybe he'd rather die than live in prison. A very influential person in the field of technology and he is also a software expert. Maybe he was ashamed of living in prison. Life in prison will also make him a long-lasting frustration.

John McAfee was an expert but he messed up big time promoting scam projects and if you were in the market during the ICO boom you would know that as he promoted scam projects and many fell for the trap thinking he did his research before promoting them but later came to know that he would promote anything if anyone pays him.

I am not buying that he committed suicide and we might not know the truth.

I admit that John McAfee is very smart so he can create an antivirus, and also McAfee has very good knowledge about the crypto world.
But unfortunately McAfee's intelligence is used by him to make a lot of money by promoting scam projects, this is very detrimental to many
people who are deceived by the promotions he do. Whereas if McAfee uses his intelligence for positive things, I believe he will not end up
in prison and not suffer a fairly tragic death. Indeed only John McAfee knew the real reason why he decided to commit suicide, I most likely
agree with the opinion that he is stressed and frustrated having to accept the reality of being in prison.

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Maybe he'd rather die than live in prison. A very influential person in the field of technology and he is also a software expert. Maybe he was ashamed of living in prison. Life in prison will also make him a long-lasting frustration.

John McAfee was an expert but he messed up big time promoting scam projects and if you were in the market during the ICO boom you would know that as he promoted scam projects and many fell for the trap thinking he did his research before promoting them but later came to know that he would promote anything if anyone pays him.

I am not buying that he committed suicide and we might not know the truth.

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It's such a pity. The world has lost a great person. Suicidal ideation is a severe symptom of depression. I read he was put under a suicide watch due to a failed suicidal attempt. My question is, why wasn't he placed in a therapeutic restraints for someone with a history?
Well, he's dead now we probably won't hear this side of the story.
I pray his soul finds peace.

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Quote from: sapnu on July 02, 2021, 11:22:48 AM

Considering the contributions he made, the history made will always be given importance. The felony he committed to God will be something made questionable since before he did the deed, he was sentenced to prison due to tax evasion. It's more of a like he is trying to escape that's why he did what he did. Nevertheless, suicide and death is a sensitive topic and hearing about his passing is something to be regretted for. Maybe he could acheived a lot more if he is still living right now but we can't do anything about it anymore, may his soul rest in peace now and all his sins be forgotten.

Nothing can be done anymore aside from giving his family the privacy that they needed in this moment, staying away from any thing that may harmed those love ones that he left, his addition to the tech industry should be acknoledge while those negative things that he did from the past especially with crypto industry needs now to be burried with him.

He choose or he just dont have any other options, whatever it the reason might be everything now dies with him.

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Considering the contributions he made, the history made will always be given importance. The felony he committed to God will be something made questionable since before he did the deed, he was sentenced to prison due to tax evasion. It's more of a like he is trying to escape that's why he did what he did. Nevertheless, suicide and death is a sensitive topic and hearing about his passing is something to be regretted for. Maybe he could acheived a lot more if he is still living right now but we can't do anything about it anymore, may his soul rest in peace now and all his sins be forgotten.

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Quote from: Kakmakr on June 29, 2021, 04:33:50 PM

Since I have seen the controversial documentary film - Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee and all the things he did in Belize.. I expected something bad to happen to him in the future. The guy lived a very full life and he had little boundaries when it came to illegal actions.

It is unfortunate for a person to fly that high and then to crash like this... but "Money" got the better of him and not paying taxes to get more money... was the absolute worst decision he could have ever made. Roll Eyes

I don't really care whether he paid his taxes on time, or not. My issue is that he made losses amounting to hundreds of millions of USD to cryptocurrency users by promoting scam projects. And the worst part was that he mocked the victims and made fun of them saying that they shouldn't have trusted him in the first place. Back in Brazil, he was accused of murdering his neighbor. I think that he got blinded with all the power and money that he got and became arrogant. But then, he forgot that there is something called Karma.

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It was shocking to hear that McAfee committed suicide but I didn't know the reasons before (didn't know he was sentenced to prison for tax evasion). His death was already decided by him through his nonsense statements that he used to give under the impact of his ego. Though, let him RIP and never come back in this world so not to commit the same things again.

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Since I have seen the controversial documentary film - Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee and all the things he did in Belize.. I expected something bad to happen to him in the future. The guy lived a very full life and he had little boundaries when it came to illegal actions.

It is unfortunate for a person to fly that high and then to crash like this... but "Money" got the better of him and not paying taxes to get more money... was the absolute worst decision he could have ever made. Roll Eyes

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Quote from: Mahanton on June 28, 2021, 05:51:41 PM

He deserves to go into jail but dying is another thing but since this is a self choice since this is a suicide then its an another story.People shouldnt commit this thing but due to some people do really failed when it comes to emotion handling then several people do really end up on this thing which is sad.Its just right that he should pay into those crimes that he had done in the past but its sad on how he do end up which is a sad thing.
I was shocked about this news on hearing it up but well whats done is done. Rest in peace.

Who should be blamed here? If you go against the authorities, then in all probability it will end in tragedy for you. Someone like John McAfee should have known this. The problem here is that he was not ready to admit his defeat. He openly challenged the American legal system for all those years, and when the system finally caught up with him, he couldn't acknowledge it. He had a lot of financial and human resources at his hand, and had a good chance of defending himself in the US. But then he decided to escape by taking the suicide route, rather than putting up a good fight.

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I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

His shitcoin is called WHACKD, he was just trying to drum up publicity about it so he could defraud more people out of money by selling it to them. Not really that confusing, his life over the last bunch of years was devoted to fraud and schemes centered around crypto. He made the tweet long before he was ever in danger of going to prison, it was just a publicity stunt to sell shitcoin.

Welp, the guy did deserve it when all he was doing in the past is shilling a shitcoin and making bad reputation to Bitcoin but most people aren't affected by that and he's a not like Elon Musk who can make a change with a single tweet. That's some real power of an influencer especially in crypto market.

I felt sad a little about how he just end up his life in prison but I also believe that he deserves it to go to jail since he was scamming more people in the past by shilling his shitcoin project. I guess people are quite happy that the shiller and scammer is gone.

He deserves to go into jail but dying is another thing but since this is a self choice since this is a suicide then its an another story.People shouldnt commit this thing but due to some people do really failed when it comes to emotion handling then several people do really end up on this thing which is sad.Its just right that he should pay into those crimes that he had done in the past but its sad on how he do end up which is a sad thing.
I was shocked about this news on hearing it up but well whats done is done. Rest in peace.

Personal issues should be set aside because this is on talks of someones life which i dont see for anyone to be that bad into something should be always be taking the blame and telling that he do deserve on what happened to him.

It just sad on how he ended up his life even though he dont have much good image in terms of crypto market but in terms of the tech or antivirus itself then we cant really deny that this is something relevant or helpful.

We dont know on how he had been thinking and on why he do end up that kind of decision.Its just sad on how he do end up his life.We deserve to live even though we do need to face up consequences but when your life is in talks then its an another story.

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Quote from: Leviathan.007 on June 23, 2021, 04:20:09 PM

According to El País, citing police sources, John McAfee, an anti-virus pioneer, killed himself in his prison cell at Brians 2 Penitentiary in Barcelona.
Prison guards found McAfee dead today. Medical specialists have not been able to resuscitate him.
Investigations into his death are ongoing, but the report states that all signs indicate suicide.
McAfee's extradition to the United States was approved by the Spanish National Court on Wednesday.
This great figure in the field of technology was arrested in October 2020 on charges of tax evasion in Barcelona.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also sued McAfee for allegedly paying money to advertise an "ICO" initial public offering on social media.
U.Today extends its sincere condolences to the McAfee family.

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this is very bad!!! Okay he did a lot of bad things and everyone never liked him for that, and to be truthful I also didn’t like the things he did and kind of got irritated when people talk about him always on the forum, but I never wished for him to die like this. I might have felt like he deserved going to jail, which of course he deserved if he really committed the crimes he was accused of, but I never wished him this, I don’t feel he deserved to die like this and I kind of feel sorry for him though.

This news was kind of shock to me, but anyways, I hope he rest in peace. And let this also serve as a lesson to others that may wish to tread this same part.

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Quote from: Oceat on June 28, 2021, 04:29:06 PM

Quote from: jaysabi on June 27, 2021, 01:50:59 AM

Quote from: shield132 on June 25, 2021, 04:31:07 PM

I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

His shitcoin is called WHACKD, he was just trying to drum up publicity about it so he could defraud more people out of money by selling it to them. Not really that confusing, his life over the last bunch of years was devoted to fraud and schemes centered around crypto. He made the tweet long before he was ever in danger of going to prison, it was just a publicity stunt to sell shitcoin.

Welp, the guy did deserve it when all he was doing in the past is shilling a shitcoin and making bad reputation to Bitcoin but most people aren't affected by that and he's a not like Elon Musk who can make a change with a single tweet. That's some real power of an influencer especially in crypto market.

I felt sad a little about how he just end up his life in prison but I also believe that he deserves it to go to jail since he was scamming more people in the past by shilling his shitcoin project. I guess people are quite happy that the shiller and scammer is gone.

He deserves to go into jail but dying is another thing but since this is a self choice since this is a suicide then its an another story.People shouldnt commit this thing but due to some people do really failed when it comes to emotion handling then several people do really end up on this thing which is sad.Its just right that he should pay into those crimes that he had done in the past but its sad on how he do end up which is a sad thing.
I was shocked about this news on hearing it up but well whats done is done. Rest in peace.

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Quote from: jaysabi on June 27, 2021, 01:50:59 AM

Quote from: shield132 on June 25, 2021, 04:31:07 PM

I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

His shitcoin is called WHACKD, he was just trying to drum up publicity about it so he could defraud more people out of money by selling it to them. Not really that confusing, his life over the last bunch of years was devoted to fraud and schemes centered around crypto. He made the tweet long before he was ever in danger of going to prison, it was just a publicity stunt to sell shitcoin.

Welp, the guy did deserve it when all he was doing in the past is shilling a shitcoin and making bad reputation to Bitcoin but most people aren't affected by that and he's a not like Elon Musk who can make a change with a single tweet. That's some real power of an influencer especially in crypto market.

I felt sad a little about how he just end up his life in prison but I also believe that he deserves it to go to jail since he was scamming more people in the past by shilling his shitcoin project. I guess people are quite happy that the shiller and scammer is gone.

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Quote from: Leviathan.007 on June 23, 2021, 04:20:09 PM

According to El País, citing police sources, John McAfee, an anti-virus pioneer, killed himself in his prison cell at Brians 2 Penitentiary in Barcelona.
Prison guards found McAfee dead today. Medical specialists have not been able to resuscitate him.
Investigations into his death are ongoing, but the report states that all signs indicate suicide.
McAfee's extradition to the United States was approved by the Spanish National Court on Wednesday.
This great figure in the field of technology was arrested in October 2020 on charges of tax evasion in Barcelona.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also sued McAfee for allegedly paying money to advertise an "ICO" initial public offering on social media.
U.Today extends its sincere condolences to the McAfee family.

I would say that it is not really that shocking that a rich person was trying to not pay taxes. I mean we literally saw the PRESIDENT BRAG ABOUT NOT PAYING TAXES in the past, Trump paid 750 bucks in taxes, that's it and nothing more, that's all he paid. His defense? "His companies did" instead, which they didn't mostly because most of them went bankrupt or paying huge sums of debt that can't be paid and inevitably they will bankrupt too.

Remember panama papers? Bunch of super wealthy people hiding their profits in panama so that they could avoid paying a tax? Or remember Eduardo Saverin? The co-founder of facebook that had over a billion dollars thanks to facebook and he moved to singapore and became a singapore citizen to avoid paying taxes. Basically all the rich people in the world find a way to avoid paying a tax, hell Bill Gates got a fake divorce to pay less taxes, A FAKE DIVORCE!

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Quote from: jaysabi on June 27, 2021, 11:03:57 AM

Pretty much nailed it. It didn't help that he was literally scamming people by taking payments to pump garbage projects and created his own garbage coin and was relentlessly pumping it to people who didn't know better. The constant scamming is what ultimately led to his downfall, since he wasn't paying taxes on his scam earnings and that's why the government finally caught up to him for tax evasion.

He used innovative methods to evade taxes. He refused to file his tax returns (and therefore didn't mentioned his crypto holdings, which is mandatory for US nationals, irrespective of the fact whether they are residing in the US or not). The fiat payments he received for pumping these shitcoins (he charged $105,000 for a single tweet) were received in account of his girlfriend (who is not a citizen of the United States). According to the charge sheet put up by the IRS for extradition, the last time he filed his tax return was in 2013. After that he simply refused to file them. The justification given was that "taxation is illegal".

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1080953136985133062

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on June 27, 2021, 08:49:30 AM

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Very unfortunate that it reaches this point, even though Mcafee has a bad side he is one of the early promoters of Bitcoin adoption, he made headlines when he told the world that Bitcoin will reach $1 million, it's very unfortunate to read that he commit suicide maybe because of loneliness, he never gets to spend his remaining years in a good way.

Dude, you don't know what you are talking about. John McAfee was not one of the early promoters of Bitcoin. He jumped in to the cryptocurrency bandwagon, only after Bitcoin became popular. And he did more harm than good, by promoting altcoins instead of Bitcoin. And although his $1 million prediction attracted some attention, it actually made cryptocurrency users a laughing stock in front of others. He just pulled out a random number, and gave no justification to his prediction. It actually made a lot of people to think that cryptocurrency is a scam.

Pretty much nailed it. It didn't help that he was literally scamming people by taking payments to pump garbage projects and created his own garbage coin and was relentlessly pumping it to people who didn't know better. The constant scamming is what ultimately led to his downfall, since he wasn't paying taxes on his scam earnings and that's why the government finally caught up to him for tax evasion.

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Very unfortunate that it reaches this point, even though Mcafee has a bad side he is one of the early promoters of Bitcoin adoption, he made headlines when he told the world that Bitcoin will reach $1 million, it's very unfortunate to read that he commit suicide maybe because of loneliness, he never gets to spend his remaining years in a good way.

Dude, you don't know what you are talking about. John McAfee was not one of the early promoters of Bitcoin. He jumped in to the cryptocurrency bandwagon, only after Bitcoin became popular. And he did more harm than good, by promoting altcoins instead of Bitcoin. And although his $1 million prediction attracted some attention, it actually made cryptocurrency users a laughing stock in front of others. He just pulled out a random number, and gave no justification to his prediction. It actually made a lot of people to think that cryptocurrency is a scam.

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