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Quote from: fiulpro on June 25, 2021, 12:23:37 PM

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This is extremely sad , one should not do something like this since their life influences many people from their family and even if he had no way out, he could have for sure done something. This is never the case . I hope his family is better.
What am worried about is "if the social media played a sad role in this" ( we know how his image was therefore people always criticized him , it should have definitely been a hard thing for him to read )

I don't think that when someone who commits suicide cares if he/she/they are are going to influence their loved ones negatively or positively.

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Everything crazy about this man, his life and his death was crazy, he has raised a lot of problems in his life since the creation of the anti-virus company and later when he moved to work in Crypto, there has been a lot of controversy about the man and the projects he promotes and mostly fraudulent projects, can To say that he raised a lot of controversy and questions in his life in all the places he went to, and also now after his death it seems that he wanted his death to be as controversial as his life was.

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Quote from: shield132 on June 25, 2021, 03:31:07 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.

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Quote from: Cling18 on June 25, 2021, 12:41:35 PM

I thought he died because of illness. If that's true the that's really heartbreaking news. Although it wouldn't affect the market, as a human, we'll still feel sad that he ended his life for fear and depression. I think it's because of the threats that he's been hearing and the frustrations that he has in life. It will surely be a hard thing for his family to handle but I hope that they'll be able to surpass it.

It's pretty sad but the suicide angle seems a bit suspicious if you ask some people, there was a post by McAfee in a social media platform before dying that got deleted after the report of suicide which is crazy or maybe coincidental. Remember, Epstein? This was almost the same because Epstein plans to be a whistleblower at that time.

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Quote from: Gyfts on June 25, 2021, 07:38:36 PM

There is not a grand conspiracy behind his death. Dude was a nut job that might've went senile over the last 3 or 4 years. He was a brilliant programmer, and big bitcoin proponent, but that doesn't change the fact he was involved in some white collar crimes and the feds were after him. He got some tattoo suggesting that he would never kill himself and tweeted out suggesting that people were after him...I chalk that to him being a lunatic.

He was a murderer (killed Gregory Faull) and scamster (stole hundreds of millions of USD from cryptocurrency users). The fact that he committed suicide like a coward, unable to face the fact that he will be deported to the United States doesn't make him a saint all of a sudden. The funds should be recovered and reimbursed to the users who were scammed by McAfee. IMO, McAfee did more harm than good for the cryptocurrency sector. It is time to move on and focus on other important developments in the field of cryptocurrency.

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Quote from: cheezcarls on June 25, 2021, 06:23:36 AM

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Actually, it is not clear whether he committed suicide. Because there is no proof about it yet. Maybe he wanted to commit suicide when he heard that he was going to be taken to the USA again. Or maybe, someone planned to kill him and did it.

And speaking of that, I found this source….

Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-instagram-deleted-following-q-post-after-death-2021-6

However, Instagram deleted his post and account immediately. Maybe someone had full access to John McAfee’s official Instagram and made that cryptic “Q” post.

There is not a grand conspiracy behind his death. Dude was a nut job that might've went senile over the last 3 or 4 years. He was a brilliant programmer, and big bitcoin proponent, but that doesn't change the fact he was involved in some white collar crimes and the feds were after him. He got some tattoo suggesting that he would never kill himself and tweeted out suggesting that people were after him...I chalk that to him being a lunatic.

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Quote from: Leviathan.007 on June 23, 2021, 03:20:09 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.

There is really a lot of talks about him being killed as well but I do not see the importance of him to be killed. I mean yeah the talk about Eipstein not killing himself but that just makes sense, dude was the owner of a pedo ring that included almost all the powerful people, that was a disgusting thing and not something you could have come out, hell USA let people whistleblow about how they killed their own people because how "dangerous" they are (check out cointelpro) yet that was fine, Eipstein was the red line man, it was impossible for those powerful people to let him speak about how had sexual relations with little kids, that is just way too disgusting and would have seen them buried alive.

However McAfee didn't had anything on anyone, dude was a bit crazy that is true but he didn't had anything on anyone and that is why I do not think he mattered enough.

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on June 25, 2021, 03:04:32 AM

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For him, cryptocurrency was just another weapon where he could scam people and make money.

I basically knew nothing about Mcafee until watching some news stories after his death, both old and new, and I totally believe what you said--the guy was obviously crazy, and that's putting it kindly. If I were to put it unkindly, I'd probably say that he was evil (assuming the allegations of murder, rape, and everything else he was accused of were true). From the interviews from him I've seen, I could see himself committing suicide simply to make people talk about it.

Your answer kinda reminds me of the one situation that everyone thinks about: What will happen when we die? What will our relatives/friends say? Will they cry? Etc...
He was so crazy and if we add the fact that he had to spend the rest of his life in jail, maybe he was really thinking about what would happen after his death and finally commited suicide?

Also, I remember that MacAfee was claiming that he knew who was real satoshi. If he was going to commit suicide, I guess, everything would lose value and he had nothing to lose, so, why didn't he revealed the Satoshis identity?

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“Sometimes genius and madness aren’t far apart and it seems he unfortunately fell prey to his demons,” said Doug Clinton, managing partner at Loup Ventures.

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

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

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Quote from: inoes on June 24, 2021, 05:47:22 PM

Now that John is dead, on the day he died, people sold the token for profit. I don't know what they think. Very sad .

Those were already enough reasons why people sold it. They've got the profit and there's no reason for them to continue further with this coin because the sole person who advertised it has already died. Even me, if I've got a coin like this and the main guy has already quit or left, I'm going to dump it as soon as possible. That's how the market is working for projects like this. If the main stay guy has left, everyone is going to take it as negative news and that's why there's a force that everyone will start to dump it. But unlike bitcoin, despite satoshi left all of the sudden, it is still continuing until today. Well, a huge difference between John and satoshi.

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I thought he died because of illness. If that's true the that's really heartbreaking news. Although it wouldn't affect the market, as a human, we'll still feel sad that he ended his life for fear and depression. I think it's because of the threats that he's been hearing and the frustrations that he has in life. It will surely be a hard thing for his family to handle but I hope that they'll be able to surpass it.

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Quote from: dothebeats on June 23, 2021, 03:30:02 PM

He's in for a treat if he were to be extradited, and I guess he no longer wants to be imprisoned for his tax crimes and just want to literally go out and evade the sentence. Perhaps it is also out of frustration that he was left in the dust after he was charged for tax evasion by some of his friends that he also helped along the way. John McAfee is nowhere near likeable after the pump and dumps that he helped orchestrate, though to be fair he helped shape the scene and helped us recognize some of its flaws, resulting to the maturity of the cryptocurrency market.

RIP.

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Actually, it is not clear whether he committed suicide. Because there is no proof about it yet. Maybe he wanted to commit suicide when he heard that he was going to be taken to the USA again. Or maybe, someone planned to kill him and did it.

That's a probability in my opinion, we know that this kind of thing is happening in the world, organizations neutralizing targets and making it look like a suicide. Remember the Epstein fiasco, many believe including me that it was orchestrated because he plans to squeal on powerful people. Maybe this is the same for McAfee.

This is extremely sad , one should not do something like this since their life influences many people from their family and even if he had no way out, he could have for sure done something. This is never the case . I hope his family is better.
What am worried about is "if the social media played a sad role in this" ( we know how his image was therefore people always criticized him , it should have definitely been a hard thing for him to read )

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Actually, it is not clear whether he committed suicide. Because there is no proof about it yet. Maybe he wanted to commit suicide when he heard that he was going to be taken to the USA again. Or maybe, someone planned to kill him and did it.

There is no one answer but I hope whatsoever happened can be out in the public and may the people involved are taken care of.

What he did was definately wrong but there is no need to hold him accountable now. I do think someone definitely killed him because he was just facing 5 years in prison. Which is not much.

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Actually, it is not clear whether he committed suicide. Because there is no proof about it yet. Maybe he wanted to commit suicide when he heard that he was going to be taken to the USA again. Or maybe, someone planned to kill him and did it.

And speaking of that, I found this source….

Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-instagram-deleted-following-q-post-after-death-2021-6

However, Instagram deleted his post and account immediately. Maybe someone had full access to John McAfee’s official Instagram and made that cryptic “Q” post.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on June 24, 2021, 11:10:35 PM

For him, cryptocurrency was just another weapon where he could scam people and make money.

I basically knew nothing about Mcafee until watching some news stories after his death, both old and new, and I totally believe what you said--the guy was obviously crazy, and that's putting it kindly. If I were to put it unkindly, I'd probably say that he was evil (assuming the allegations of murder, rape, and everything else he was accused of were true). From the interviews from him I've seen, I could see himself committing suicide simply to make people talk about it.

I don't think there was a conspiracy like there may have been with J. Epstein's death, but who knows. Luckily, neither one of these assholes was inextricably linked to bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. Sure, Mcafee may have owned bitcoin before, but he wasn't exactly an ambassador for it. Thank the stars for that, because bitcoin really doesn't need another media-driven black eye right now to turn the public (and perhaps the government) against it.

Edit: Well, I guess his name was more entwined with bitcoin than I'd realized after watching this Youtube video. As I said, I barely knew anything about the guy before now--and the more I learn about him and his life, the more criminally insane he appears to have been.

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Quote from: Vaskiy on June 24, 2021, 06:50:03 PM

He was a influencer in the cryptospace during the days of previous bull market. By the time he promoted various scam as well as potential projects. He was one of the personality who had his entry into cryptocurrency investment during the very beginning days. When money has been the primary thing people automatically get into unwanted things that affect their reputation and McAfee is an example of it.

McAfee entered the cryptocurrency market quite late (if I remember correctly, either in 2016 or 2017). And he was not ideologically motivated about cryptocurrency during those early days. For him, cryptocurrency was just another weapon where he could scam people and make money. He charged the new projects $105,000 for each tweet he posted to support them from his official Twitter account. From these tweets alone he made tends of millions of USD (and his followers lost hundreds of millions of USD of their savings).

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He was a influencer in the cryptospace during the days of previous bull market. By the time he promoted various scam as well as potential projects. He was one of the personality who had his entry into cryptocurrency investment during the very beginning days. When money has been the primary thing people automatically get into unwanted things that affect their reputation and McAfee is an example of it.

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An image of a giant Q was posted on John McAfee's instagram account after his death. Which could mean John McAfee was Q of QAnon fame.

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I don't know much about him aside from mcafee antivirus. There could be a massive amount of history and information relating to John McAfee and his battle against the deep state we'll never know about if he was indeed Q of QAnon. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden both have stories that are well known and publicized. I would be interested to know what John McAfee's story is. It seems McAfee is more hated than either Assange or Snowden. He must have done something to earn that.

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I'm sorry for his died Cry

... good bless you.

All his services mean a lot. There are a lot of conspiracy news circulating in the online media, but what I highlight is the Whackd project, John Mcafee's Token.

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Now that John is dead, on the day he died, people sold the token for profit. I don't know what they think. Very sad .

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maybe we should be saddened by the death of MCAfee because he was one of the ones who contributed to the development of this cryptocurrency, we can see from his tweets, even though sometimes the controversy and maybe the huge tax obligations make him commit violations of government laws

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The conspiracy saga continues... one of my first thoughts when I saw the news about McAfee's death! His life was crazy, at least from all the things I read about him and saw in his tweets, I even watched some documentaries about his life! I guess it's hard to understand his behavior and his wars... in his head and around! For me, it's hard making a difference what was real and unreal in his stories...

Well, in my opinion, he went in his style! 75 years is not a little... and as I saw above "his life was colorful"... I can't add anything more on that! R.I.P. John...

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Those tweets of his were pointing that he knew that there are those that were trying to catch him. Suicide or not, he had made his life colorful. But the most unforgettable moments that he had was when he made a daily run for the shill of the day and whatever altcoin pays him his demand, he's going to tweet it and everyone in the herd follows him. That's not really new as what Elon Musk did these days. We may not like him with that attitude but he's known for his craft as one of the pioneers in anti-virus and he has made his company well known. Rest in peace John.

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