With so much crazy shit goin on lately the legend of John McAfee has just kinda been forgotten. Which is a damn shame because this motherfucker actually WAS the DosEquis man: The most interesting man in the world! And his life is one crazy rabbit hole to fall down
There’s Stories for days. His annual whale fucking in Greenland. Paying Mexican women to shit in his mouth. Wagering the eating of his own dick for a crypto bet. His Presidential campaign. Mastering the art of the tweet. Fucking endless
But last bunch of years of dudes life was on the run constantly. Popping up in diff counties and islands every so often. Staying on the boat for months on end. Different jails. Different governments after him. Different governments working with him. Long periods of silence. He was certainly interesting. Made his nut with his virusware when he sold the company. But blew thru it all Even got himself his own certified Netflix documentary lol
Then just hustled in crypto & made a shitload more $ in diff crypto grifts. Some legit. Some scammy. So naturally he also made some enemies along the way. And crypto:fintech also brought him a network that was literally world wide. So there no telling what corner of the world he may have disrupted.
My man had some inside knowledge of a whole lot of delicate & sensitive topics. But he always made sure to say—- “I will never commit suicide. If they ever say I killed myself you all know the truth”. Dude even got it tattooed on himself.
And he also spoke -bout setting a ‘dead mans switch’ in the event of his unexpected demise that would somehow strategically release info once he was officially gone. But was this insurance to stay alive? Or just a way to make sure info doesn’t die with him ? Or both ?
Haven’t heard anything about it since that first week or so after his “suicide” when he was found in his jail awaiting to be extradited back to the US facing multiple years worth of tax evasion. John viewedd the world differently than most people. He didn’t feel he owed the US their cut. And knowing type of guy he was I wouldn’t put it past him to take his own life knowing conspiracy theories would spread and basically trolling his own death.
He was also in the midst of writing an autobiography with another author. Which basically was just JMcAfee drinking and talking shit for hours upon hours while this dude recorded it to later attempt to organize into something coherent. Sadly he died before they finished their sessions. The author said however that he did have plenty of content to be able to create something worthwhile.
As far as I know these sessions have not been released yet. IIRC its called The McAfee Tapes. Maybe it will shed some light on some things. John’s widow Janice McAfee was extremely outspoken & suspicious early on after his death. Questioning everything & everyone. Since then tho she’s walked back some of that. But we still have so many unanswered questions Did John McAfee just troll us by taking his own life? (No) Or was he murdered? (Yes) And if so, by who? (US govt) And why? (Maybe he will still tell us)
-Did he in fact set up a dead mans switch? (Hopefully) -Is it set up on the blockchain with timed releases? (This Could explain the delay and still give me hope that it’s real)
-Did he know the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto? (Possibly -Would he reveal it? I doubt it. Mac was a true believer in crypto. Keeping that identity a mystery is actually better for Bitcoin IMO. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Keep in mind Satoshi is not some fictitious character. Satoshi is a real person who used this name for anonymity while discussing in the original crypto town square: Bitcointalk.com forum. They designed & wrote code for a brand new truly innovative revolutionary technology that was seemingly perfect. No glitches. No flaws. Every little potential issue was accounted for. And All with no initial beta test version to work out kinks. Just poof. One day it doesn’t exist. The next day it does. Flawlessly.
Back in 2009 there could only have been a very small handful of programmers who would have even been able to do this at that time. And even as the industry swelled with endless innovative talented developers, & 1000’s of blockchains, coins & tokens have come & gone, with tech advancing at such a fast rate & much quicker than even the infrastructure around it-despite all that the original 2009 Bitcoin network still reigns king. Running on that flawless network that just magically came into existence. There’s some other interesting theories that this was just not humanly possible to build this new advanced technology like that and it was actually A.I. that wrote Bitcoin. That’s another rabbit hole for another day. But it’s definitely Intriguing
***TL/DR: John McAfee was found in his jail cell dead of an apparent “suicide”. He was a crazy, rich, controversial personality who vowed publicly more than once that he would never commit suicide and also to set up a ‘dead mans switch’ to trigger & release information once he was officially dead.
-Who killed John & why? -Is there actually a dead mans switch revealing Satoshi’s identity?***
Hoping we get to hear from John soon.
(The Bitcoin/techie/programming specific info mentioned is definitely littered with errors & incorrect terminology. But whatever gfy it’s close enough)
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