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Founder of the software company McAfee, John McAfee is now promoting cryptocurrency for $105,000 per tweet to his 810,000 direct followers.

I found source info here: https://coinpedia.org/news/john-mcafee-charges-crypto-promotions

Damn, nowadays promotion and advertising made a lot from social media and it just normal when there are lot of ICOs out there promoting their coin and even using his name without his permission. This is also a good reason to measure and ICO, If an ICO can't have enough money to do such promotion then they shouldn't even consider to launch their coin to be known worldwide. Its just a new way to give pressure to scam ICOs  ;D ;D

This time is crypto. Everyone want take advantage this crypto market like McAfee.
But i think McAfee never promote shit coin.

It's completely ridiculous to think people are listening to what he suggests but at least now it's clear that is getting paid to do so, is not doing it out of his good heart

I don't listen to Mcafee I have my own criteria in choosing the coins where I invest my money and people should do the same, do not get into the hype because a man like Mcafee is tweeting it, that is bullshit what if that ICO is a scam he is staking his reputation.

yeah, I have seen it, and there is a registration fee of $750.
apparently he chooses carefully the projects he supports.
at least he is open about the money, unlike other celebrities. 

https://www.coindesk.com/sec-halts-mayweather-endorsed-ico-charges-founders-fraud/

So what did you expect when he was posting garbage and shit coins on his twitter account. He is here to make money and anybody following him and buying as per his promotions is an idiot and risks losing his investment completely.

Well in case the coins he is promoting turns out to be scam coin, he will not only lose his reputation but also the company the company he is representing I stopped using Mcafee because he is abusing the trust his followers are giving him better unfollow this guy.

Everybody makes money how they want , what is bad in that jhon promote 1 tweet for 100 000$ ? Nothing many people do the same but not with the price like that but everyone who could earn money from pormoting :)

He has a huge fanbase and a large following of crypto investors and also people who are looking to invest in the cryptocurrency market and a tweet from him could send thousands rushing into your campaign so I am not surprised that he charges this much, the only thing I have a problem with is when he starts promoting scam coins and making people lose their hard earned money.

If you look better everyone here promoting a lot of shit coins and ico and its normally because all of this crypto only for speculate and making money , nothing else.

That's a pretty expensive price for my taste, and if it does happen easily, and I want to, I'm very interested in buying it, and I'll spread this information.

I used to follow this guy on twitter , never worked for me , and I don't invest in any ICO he promote , he is manipulating the market with his followers and charging people , true devil.

Like it has been said before on whether John McAfee was doing good for the crypto world or bad BH promoting or lending credence to any ICO or coin, my argument was that he is causing more good than bad by influencing the decision of any market participants thereby leading to a form of pump and dump of that and further distort the market to the disadvantage of millions of other people who didn't have such information.

This allegation of him collecting such high amount is ridiculous though which could either be good or bad depending on the way its being looked at. Good in the sense that, its going to discourage a whole lot of people flooding his timeline on what the next "big  coin" is going to be. And bad on the fact that $105,000 is a just a small amount of money to be raised when his 810,000 followers pumped fund into a particular coin he promotes. The fact his people have continued to make gods out of themselves which give him the opportunity for such relevance.

it is just advertising but it is paramount that people specially newcomers understand this. unfortunately when it comes to investing in cryptocurrencies, from bitcoin to all the crappy altcoins and scammy ICOs, most people look for someone to follow like a sheep and that has led to a lot of problems for them including money loss and problems for the market like making the altcoin market look purely like a pump and dump scheme.

Everyone involved with crypto is concerned about their own profits only. Now that this news is in public, the projects he advertised will be trolled and seen with suspicion.

It is a normal business venture, nothing shocking or fairly surprising there. What is surprising though is that people will still come to react with euphoria and FUD to his observations although everybody knows now that he is paid to do them. The human race never ceases to amaze me.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein

 

Everyone here would take up an offer of $100k to post a tweet that takes less than 60 seconds to write up. It's the unregulated nature of crypto that allows this to happen. Don't hate the playa' hate the game.

The sad thing is that people are still following him and buying every coin that he tweets! This is basically a pump and dump group and people should know better than to join. He has lost credibility with these ridiculous charges, yet people are blindly investing just because someone paid him to shill their coin!

I don't care how much he got paid, The positive side here he made Cryptocurrency to be the most effective investment or store of value. The bad side here is he only choose Cryptos that are shitcoins! Just like paid bots.

easy money
I was envious of her ability to be an influencer on the world of cryptocurrency
if in a day he gets orders from 5 clients, then he gets 500k USD without having to work hard
and it is enough for me to live for 1 year

I shudder to accept the fact that the McAfee effect actually works.  He's been promoting too many projects and some of then are not even successful. I believe people must take time to learn own their own when it comes to cryptocurrency businesses. No one can help you more than yourself.

dont worry they wont be successful, in the long run. frauds get exposed sooner or later.

alone the name McAfee sounds like a warning to me it means something like McMonkey in German, if you pronounce it. doesnt sound like someone who can be trusted or taken serious

the problem here is that all those pseudoenterpreneuers that have access to us dollars publishing their short term icos. trying to find intelligent individuals working for them,

but they wont be successful, those icos as mcmonkey, if he is not able to hedge his US dollars.

We see a lot of negative news in the market and i am sure everything is sponsored by someone, some by the banks and so on and John McAfee is promoting coins by taking a bounty, but before doing that is he checking whether the coins he is promoting is genuine or not, there were ICO that were supported sports people and some are in trouble because of scams.

profit thinking and longterm successful ICOs dont work well together they are diametrically excluding each other. ICOs should be for serious Capitalists that want to develop things. not to earn US dollars.

I'm not even surprised anymore. If you're a follower of McAfee, you'll always get notifications from his account about different coins being advertised by him. You'll get the idea that he's doing this full time. With that in mind, that price tag is very reasonable for him to do this with his full attention. We don't know how many coins applied for his service but one thing is for sure, this is definitely a very lucrative job for just tweeting something about the certain ICO.  8)

Well this is normal for some big names to have endorsements even some huge youtubers like logan paul and pewdiepie which they can earn around $40k per post in social media (i don't know this is true but i read this article online) since the crypto related advertising in social media is banned i think that advertising with a big name in cryptocurrency like mcafee will a huge effect

Yeah but before many times when he promote some coin price jumped so high at up also when somebody hacked them and promote fake coin price pumped also :) He could manipulate with market also with same tricks.

A simple job and get a considerable sum of money. Just posting an article on Twitter can earn $ 105,000, which is crazy. We can see the impact of celebrities on the community is enormous and the price to get it is very high.

This is one reason why I do not like John Mcafee. I remember that one developer of a coin was messaged by John and he told the developer that his coin is good and he is willing to promote his coin in exchange for a large amount of bitcoin plus an enormous amount of the devs coins. The developer leaked those conversation and John was caught. Another thing why I dislike Mcafee is when he promotes a coin the value surges up and then it will crash, possibly it is John who dumped his coins.

Now that the news is out, his credibility is already questionable. I do not think that any logical person or company will no contact him for any promotion.

its great for crypto and it was gonna be wow promotion this is the time for all crypto coins not only for us but cause for everyone in this world crypto is the best.

my question, is that really mcafee or someone else?  ??? because at past if me not wrong, mcafee said that his account get hacked. when he start to promote about some altcoins. and i don't think his reputation will worth for that amount of money

Well that is pretty dumb announcing that he will tweet for $$$, he would've been better off talking privately on ICO developers to make his tweets more believable. Clearly after that announcement, he's opinions and promoted coins will not be trusted that much since he is only doing it for the $$$. Anyone believing and supporting the coins this guy will be promoting is either dumb or a newbie in this industry(just saying). I mean, damn! Who in the right mind would even pay him to promote their ICO if he already lot the trust of people? just wouldn't make any sense.

Stay cautious about any promotions that cite cryptocurrency, including ICO. We should really be able to choose which coin has potential for the future, bitcoin is the top candidate on my list.

I have also heard that there are bots which buy automatically a coin that was mentioned in the McAfee's tweet. That's ridiculous but we can't do nothing about it. If many people trust him then we should let him continue. Let's hope that he won't promote any project without checking it earlier. It would be disastrous for him and crypto industry if he advertised a ponzi scheme or a scam project. He's definitely taking a huge risk. I'm not against it, he had to build his trust somehow and now wants to make money thank to it.

I think it would be more desasterous for the crypto currency community than him, he has pretty much ruined his credibility already by getting paid for every tweet