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Yesterday John McAfee posted on his twitter account that he will share his thoughts on unique altcoins and he said "most of 2,000 are trash" and today he posted on twitter that ETN is one of those unique coins and boom ETN price pumped 30%. With his daily posts about alts that believe is good, will this affect the altcoins price or this will tarnish his reputation.

https://imgur.com/a/UwS1k

Now mcafee is promoting this KWH ICO that looks like a scam.  Address is a shared workspace in San Jose, website looks like it was thrown together in 15 minutes just for the purpose of getting funds, and no linkedin profiles for the team.  Then I looked up the CEO and his previous jobs are managing retail clothing stores.  WTF

One good way to increase your portfolio. Follow him on twitter and wait for these pnd's. Made 50% today in just 5 minutes.

The moment he made his first tweet showing Electroneum as his first pick of Alt/Day, I started loosing HOPE to his coin/day list thingy. Its No analysis. Just blanket facts.
he seems like a "good guy" but he's just an opportunist like others sitting on the crypto throne.

Eventually, his tweets will act like a PnD, nothing more I expect here.

Well he did mention this

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/943927015656316928

That he doesn't hold any position in electroneum and so he is not pumping for any gains.

@Ashcoins

Shared workspace in bay area is common and another common thing here is starting a company in a garage ;) and so that doesn't make it a scam.

But truly how would you really know he doesn't hold any position in any of the altcoins he says or going to say are good. Honestly if he has that much of a influence he would be stupid not to be buying up the altcoin the day before he tweets it's good and taking profits from the pump.

Yeah I don't buy it.  And riding his pump/dump announcements is a legit strategy but throwing money at his crappy ICO is a whole another thing. 

@deepcryptomine - if the shared space was the only issue, I would agree, but that KWH looks fishy all around.

That is true. There is no way of knowing since he did mention this in another tweet.

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/943630578364112898

To quote "Most of the 2,000 coins are trash or scams. I've read every white paper. The few I'm connected to I will tell you. The rest I have no position in."

So that quote kinda contradicts the other.

I didn't pay attention to his recommendation but other he has recommended has also climbed higher. I will try to see if I can get some profit from this.

McAfee also stated it was his brain child or something right? Hope it's not a scam lol.

Oh understood. I tried to visit the website but it seems to be down with unknown host error. I will check it out once it is back online.

John McAfee is a very interesting person. I would say, mysterious. Motives for his actions are probably only known to him. Because it's really hard to understand it.
Can he in this way helps to raise rate for some interesting to himself altcoins? Maybe..

nice detective work LOL. I never thought of doing that. I thought I was thorough just because I read whitepapers, but obviously I need to step up my game

Interesting to know if his thought affected to altcoin which he share in twitter.
If its really working, i will start following his twitter then to get information.

Smells like some scammy pump and dump schemes are surrounding John, easy money.

seems very mislead

Afaik McAfee is behind the recent Verge pump

would anyone actually follow his indications? well maybe for the speculative pump I guess

well if he does that every day and your lucky to be there when he announces them it's a good thing to start buying that coin since it will probably go up in a few hours

The problem is he has an influenece over the market and peoples emotions. Just ride the waves guys. Buy in sell high. If you dont someone else will. He will soon make himself redunadant if he starts speaking a load of shit which i hope doeant actually happen. Lets see ill be watching his twitter feed to see the next coin announced

He found the way to turn over the investments he made. He's just using this method. Because the idea of ​​a well-known person is much more important.
In addition, 30% increase is minimal. Anyone can do that. :)

I hate McAfee products, but I do respect the man for his views on government and privacy.

I would just use his daily twitter posts to make quick profit

Is John McAfee really saying that Electroneum is a good cryptocoin? I reckon that might tarnish his reputation. But he already did that by supporting Jihan Wu and Craig Wright. He is for the miners and the centralization of bitcoin, not for the community.

In any case, he is also a clown and no one should listen to him.

That's the power of influence! Well, he's a tech pioneer and cybersecurity visionary so his words have an authority with it.
Just look at the massive number of followers he has on twitter, almost 250K+. That could be  deal breaker for a cryptocurrency.

Yeah,, and that was a good news because that means easy money for us too... I started following him ~

totally agree, this is the way famous make money like CEO of JP morgan do :D

quite helpful for our trading with tweets from john mc afee. yesterday i made a considerable profit from just following her tweet about xvg .h and today he make tweet about etn.i 'll follow by buying etn too

You can say goodbye to his daily picks as he posted that moving forward he will post his picks on a weekly basis and we can look forward for his posts at Monday morning his time. What he is doing is just pumping the price of the alt coins, look at Electroneum, after he made an announcement, price is still the same, it may have pumped up and gained a few Sats but went back to previous price. 

So this guy is not that effective anymore. Also people do not trust.
Everyone started to look cautious. There are too many people who think it's a fraud :)

Yesterday I was surprised when McAfee said that the coin of the week is TRON (TRX) and the price didn't go up!
Actually TRON is the one of the most promising coins nowadays. It's already implemented as a payment instrument and have aggressive goals. As a long term investment it is really on of the best coins.

Mr. John McAfee knows that his reputation will be at stake before making that post. And after the tweets start coming, those altcoins have gained prices. We stand to observe what those altcoins will be in the run of time. At the moment, his recommendations are working.

Guys, just take a look this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isDXVPP8c4U). John McAfee is just a prepaid scammer. He pumps shitcoins for money only without any research.

What a man I'd say: "Due to heavy pressure from crypto adherents, exchanges, developers and every other corner of the earth (and God himself chastised me in my dreams last night), the "Coin of the day" will become "Coin of the week" starting immediately. You can look for it every Monday morning."

I honestly love this man he will slow down by giving 1 week coin, but will not stop to pursue what he wants to do big thumbs up from me :D

I think he's a shiller who is dumping on his followers :)

I think it is an experiment to test the redirecting of people rather than sharing Mcafee's honest thoughts. Tries for how can I fill my pocket more easily.

This guy is loosing his image by running this pump and dump thing. I used to kinda like him, but now he has lost his respect from me. John McAfee effect will not remain for long in pumping diff coins, with every new coin he calls, expect smaller and smaller pumps with time.

Now he does it for bitcoins. He is told what kind of coin to PR and pay for it. Once all people know this, it seems to me that no one will listen to his posts. Because for him it's just business. It is clear that he will not PR frankly.

I think he is not reliable, several of the coins he shares does not deserve to hold, his main aim is to promote coins of himself.

I have been following John's tweets but i do believe that he is sharing his opinion on alt coins that will change the world. He is not giving us financial advice. So your own research will make the difference

i think coin company push some coin to jhon macfee account and he will make a new for this coin company ...for his news coin can be dump or pump ...

i think its one kind of scam ... also he predict bitcoin price .... i love his bitcoin prediction only

You can't know if he holds or not,and that's the reason he probably does hold a position and he is using his status to gain profits illegaly.

I believe that he is either getting paid by a big whale or a developer  or is holding a position, that's could be the only explanation to what he is doing.


In the crypto world, you can't really know whether someone is lying to you, and you can't really know if he is holding a position or he is just telling what he thinks in an innocent way, but always make your own research before investing in an altcoin and make sure that it hasn't gone up already.

Of course he ain't reliable, I can't get over my head how some people see him to be serious lol, it is okay if he shares love for crypto currency but still he is in fact doing pumps since hes coin of the day got pumped so kinda.

McAfee is probably getting paid to hype up different altcoins. He does not care about anybody but himself so I would be very cautious if you're taking his "advice".

You guys are putting a lot of prestige for this hasben of a developer. Sure, he did wonders in the world for cyber defense, but we are in the world of crypto now.

There is a need to get high-profile investors/public figures to shine spotlights on X shitcoin, but at this rate he's actually using his public image to pump pure shitcoins, Redd... etc. I would be careful when investing in his "coin of the week shit" because this guy has been building position on everycoin he announces months in advance... looking for suckers to cash out on, you.

Mr. John McAfee's robbing money from young investors and that's the fact. There's no good reasons why people should follow his tweets.
Buying shit coins in bulk then try to trick the people that the said coins is promising, then he's gonna pull out his money while leaving investor's money when it dropped again and investors have no other choice but to hold and wait to rise up the price again.
What a heck!

He's clearly a double agent, if he's being paid then his investment has doubled or tripled after he's dumping all his investments like pulling out all the money of investors and leave them no choice but to hold.
That's the worst thing will happen if people will try to listen his shit concerns.

I think he just earning money

As he admitted that he holds no ETN, it made me feel he is genuine.. But, the tweet on KWH coin is suspicious. In my opinion just gain from the temporary pump and enjoy !!

Maybe he is just manipulating the market and pumping some altcoins he's holding. Be careful when reading some random guys advise, nothing is for free.

This could be true, is John McAfee really uses the official twitter account? It may be good if it is verified. We didn't know if he is an investor of ETN or other coins just to lift them up for profits.
If he doesn't own cryptocurrency, why he is tweeting about specific altcoins?

Yes it's true that McAfee is introduced among the alts he wants that's why some of the coins pump that hard and i think other coins are keep increasing but do you know that it's not healthy for those coins who wish to pump it hard.. but it depends on how the traders will trade that

Yep I think he and his friends are frontrunning his coins, a d I think they are having a laugh at how stupid people are to jump into X coin on his tweet

I'd not reccomend to rely on his info! It's just a pump-machine...

This guy was talking in the summer that Bitcoin is not pumped artificially. It is interesting what he is talking about the Bitcoin at the moment and its perspectives to reach 40000USD. We’ll wait for new tweets.

Most of the newbies are following him and will buy every "shit coin" he tweets about. I'm also following him but i do not put trust on his words, just to be up with the hype he is creating.

Following him should be good opportunity of investing!

McAfee pays women to s**t on him, just saying. His signals might be good for a quick pump n dump but don't rely on them for good long term holds.

These Tweets from John were crazy. Everything pumped like hell. Imagine what a power he has. He buys for million coins, the coin goes x2 with insanely high volume and he can dump everything with 100% profit without really being noticed really at all. Maybe just another whale  ;D
This seems very very wrong. Atleast he reduced that pumping to once a week. Surely good profits if you have the ability to get what he tells next. Inside informations would also be very expensive. This is one great opportunity for him to get more rich than he already is, if he want :D

His twitter account was hacked yesterday according to his post and he also changed his mind in posting his daily picks in alt coins that he believes in. He wanted to make it a weekly basis instead of daily. He becomes a target of hackers because of the good returns whenever he posted a coin, price will surge. It became a habit of some noob traders to just wait for his posts and place a buy order and wait for pump.

i saw a post on social media bout mcafee with a print screen of convo that mcafee is asking for BTC for a fee for the announcement release.i saw those tweets and the price really pump but is this real studies and voluntary announcement or just for payments too?

I think he should be make full review about the coin that he think good and has big potential,.not just say coin of the day without full review of the coin. If he everyday make post and tweet like that I think his reputation will be bad because many people say he is just pump and dump the coin.

I think it is a bad idea initially to be making these posts, it is moving market and causing unsustainable growth for these coins, it is good that he decided to stop this just to let sanity returns to the space

It is really strange to imagine that someone like John McAfee would lose his time and prestige by playing little Pump and dump schemes.

I have also seen on Twitter. As I'm a big fun of him, it is very exciting that he is starting his own alt coin. He has very good vision so I'm sure that he will rock tha crypto currency market.