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John McAfee is one of the cryto-celebrity nowadays, as we saw few months ago. John McAfee keep promoting some ICO before and have also personal analysis about different coins before.
Now, based on his tweet: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1008957156819914752
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He will not promote anymore because of SEC threats.

For my own opinion, it is good. Because it will avoid pump and dump, and the decentralization feature of cryptocurrency will remain, no one can manipulate or control the price of each coin.

Any ideas guys? It is better decision? What are your thoughts?

So I think this reflects the U.S. policy to a certain extent, so the U.S. policy is not friendly to ICO,.
so I think the risk of investing in ICO is higher in the future.

I am afraid why John McAfee worry in SEC? A few days ago Mr. John McAfee challenged to SEC but now McAfee talking differently. How much I know McAfee don't worry anyone because he talks right way and strictly. I think there have something behind this situation. We could know soon what's going on. Just waiting for next announcement.

He just made it for his security no more, no less and it's true that the SEC threats is doing their thing out of him. He already made a million of dollars with that ICO's promotions so he's very fine now.

It seems that the 'ICO boom' right now has slowly ended, faster than what I expected, Billion of dollars are involved since the inceptions of this. A lot of people bankrupted also and I feel sorry for them.

If he stop promote ICO, my opinion is a good thing. People will do more careful research about the project they are about to invest other than just buy the ICO based on his name.

Remember the time with bot auto buy the coin of his tweet, and many of his recommended coins just go no where.

Yes, probably because maybe SEC has given some warning to John McAfee by not supporting the ICO's. See in his words he mentioned about the Arrest, so it means they have given some serious warning to John McAfee but soon he is going to give some clarity regarding this situation.

yes maybe US policy prohibits him to invest in ICO because of the risks that will be higher in the future. he also gets threats from the SEC seen from his post about an arrest that made him want to protect himself. we just wait how the next development because this is very unfortunate. but he has earned millions of dollars from the ICO promotions he has made so far.

Probably, all passing ICO and those who are just planning to go out,should refrain from involving McAfee in their projects, it is better not to mention his name, because the SEC is closely watching all his actions and conversations))) I think he made the right decision.

It is a good idea for him to not to promote ICO anymore or he will break his reputation as his signal is no more working.

That's just the best thing. Most of the ICOs McAfee promoted turned out to be scam. I believe they pay him for such promotion and at the end, after gaining much buyers, they dump those coins on people and run away. Transcodium is a perfect example of what I'm saying.

A lot could happen in just a matter of days, especially that SEC are now more eager to erase someone's ICO. They possible thought even a good and useful ICO, could be a threat for them soon in the future, so limiting John McAfee now is one of their steps.

But still, Blockchain Technology is an emerging technology and gradually developing, that sooner or later, even SEC can't do something about it.

many projects he advised or recommended failed badly and he caused a lot of people to lose a lot of money. now, he's using these lies around Sec to clean himself. this doesn't mean he won't start his pumping anytime soon.

Yeah, and nothing of value was lost... Seriously, he wasn't promoting anything, it was just a pump&dump scheme for a few coins, with ephasis on dump after the short price spike. He could be valuable advisor if not for those hype tactics, but I guess crypto crowd loves such things.

this is certainly his choice but very sorry for the projects that he promoted very promising

this is just the reason he is to raise the price of his services in promoting an ico. if he gets a price or high pay, maybe he will come back. all this is just about business and money.

I agree to you, it's all about pumps and dumps scheme. He is using his popularity to be able to promote some ICO or coins. And he can also earn money at the same time. Decentralization is become nothing if it will continue, he can manipulate the price of cryptocurrency if that will continue.

Will John McAfee stop doing his predictions about bitcoin price? First he predicted bitcoin price 100k $ by the end of the year, then he says it will definitely be +30k $ and recently he said 15k $ is a good price.

Pumps and dumps are inevitable and he's not the only reason of it. I'm interested of what he said with that article which is an alternative to ICOs that can't be touched by SEC.
Before he's too eager to have a debate with SEC highest position and now he wiggled his tail and tamed by them. He's no longer credible with what he is saying but still there are people who are believing his words. If the concern is just pump and dump, he's not the only source of it.

this can act as a warning to all the ICO nuts who are not aware of the illegal activities they are getting involved with. we may see a much fiercer ban hammer on ICOs in US from SEC this year specially since many other countries have been so strict about ICOs and have been banning them.
i think John McAfee realized this and got out when he could before he got caught in some sort of lawsuit and were imprisoned.

That's refreshing to hear. I've never liked him to be honest. For someone with such a huge amount of followers and therefore influence, it's better that he sticks to some other stuff.

Thre are many fake icos i see novadays which add his picture in team section

Of course it's good. John McAfee used his opinion only to make money. And I personally know a lot of people who lost money because of its "forecasts." He got off very easily.

That's nice, However their will be consequence about the ICO about he promoted! i'm sure there will be other way around to make ICO great again. Let's just hope McAfee will hype altcoins all over the social media network- particularly on Newspaper, TV or even radio networks.

Yeah, this is a good news for us. I saw several ICO which promoted by John was not succeed.
For example, Bobs repair, Knowledge, and Sether.

It is a better decision for him and much better if he will not let himself to be part of any advertising/marketing that aims to shill that way.

That's how popular he is and these ICOs are using his name and picture and will say that they are being advertised by McAfee.
I also doubt it that he is even reading the whitepapers of those ICOs before because he's getting easy bucks for his few words and by simply tweeting it.

From US, it would be difficult for them to do ICO but because their government think that there is no good doing crypto. That is why some ICO does the KYC to prevent US citizens from joining their project because it would be charged by the US government.

This is good news as the loss of fund will reduced as only legitimate project that are sure of themselves will dare appear for promotion. So all those who have been claiming to be backed by McAfee  will  now disappear and end their scamming games.

Yeah, good thing. All he does is making himself rich. He is not helping the community in any sense. He's pumping and dumping with his coin of the day scam. Get paid as an ICO advisor when he's not even a real expert in this field. He's just taking advantage of people who fell for this ICO hype.

This is not a good decision taken by John McAfee. Crowd funding would be stuck due to this decision. However, a way forward will be created for which the objective of ICOs will be meet up. So let's hope and wait fr the new creation.

And what about ICOs which successfully ended? Past ICOs also could be destroyed by SEC? I am very afraid about this option..

I never liked McAfee for his siding with certain ICOs and making a maddening crowd for them. I would love a situation where his wings are clipped like he is alleging now. But in that same letter, McAfee is also alleging that those who participate in ICOs should be ready to face arrest. This is certainly not healthy for cryptocurrency. Yes, I believe ICOs are mostly scams but I believe those who buy into it should be allowed to bear the consequences of their own risk, and not to arrest them.

Well I guess that is probably better this way. The problem is that most of these promotion happen simply because these guys get pay to say those things. It's almost like TV commercials, that we all know that some of the things promised there are far from truth, of that the stars promoting is probably don't even use those products. We accept that kind of behavior on commercials, but we shouldn't accept it on ICOs and investment options. For that reason, I'm ok with what SEC is doing, and it's better to not allow this type of propaganda.

The problem is that this affects both good and bad projects, and that's why I think better measures need to take place for the long run, and for the good development of crypto.

This is a good decision. But pump groups still exist and they will still do pump and dump schemes. But at least they won't put all the blame on John McAfee.

Kind of sad,he is one big voice within the cryptosphere and has always championed the cause of crypt I currencies.

Most of the ICOs he promoted turned out to be either scams or failures and a lot of people lost their money invested in them. If the SEC takes any action against McAfee, then I am going to support them. And don't forget the fact that this guy initially opposed the concept of crypto-currency before making an u-turn.

It's really good and remember mcafee has been promoting so many crap icos for money. A lot of mcafee's followers were feeling sad about that. But that will make the market will be so healthy again asap. It's a better decision. I have no problem about that and i hope that will be so long.

Good news for many investors. The tweet that this guy threw was causing huge speculation and many people were making risky investments. Could cause many unexperienced people to lose all the money they had. But thanks to this man the experienced investors were gaining huge amounts of money :)

That's just the best thing. Most of the ICOs McAfee promoted turned out to be scam. I believe they pay him for such promotion and at the end, after gaining much buyers, they dump those coins on people and run away. Transcodium is a perfect example of what I'm saying.

I'm glad he did, of course, he want to save himself because some of these are scam project, and of course, he already made a lot of money and he wants to exist but I wonder what is this alternative he is mentioning not another investment scheme or mlm.

I think it's good that he no longer promotes ICO projects. His Twitter feed has turned into the trash, he advertises any of ICO. People were looking at his Twitter feed and buying all these shitcoins.

Those statement and decision sounds good to me. I agree with you that it will lessen the market manipulation or the pump and dump of an altcoin. Still, I believe that there are some investors or a big fan of him ranting around with that decision and will point their finger with the government when their investment went down. Who's on our side by the way? Even governments have some decisions that caused a market manipulation  ::)

The SEC is determined to publicise its crack down on ICO's and someone of the stature of John McAfee would be a tempting target that would garner a lot of attention. The Chinese proverb about killing a chicken to scare the monkey's comes to mind. It will be interesting to see how all this will play out. Will they confine their efforts to US based ICO's or will they include ICO's that have recieved money from US investors. What about ICO's that were never sold to US investors during the ICO but were purchased by US investors in the secondary market. A lot of questions still to be answered.

These sec threats are killing ICO projects but nowadays most of them are scam, fooling people. I don't think McAfee is a bad person, but all of people are greedy so thats the right choice

All of the results depend on the SEC compliance. If the ico never try to sold their shares to the US investors and US investors have bought them from the exchange site or any other 3rd party and if the token can't complete all of the SEC compliances and it can be considered as security too. There are some US icos have been cracked down by SEC.

McAfee can have real health problems if he fulfills his promise in the absence of growth of bitcoin to high figures.

Well this is so bad, because this was the only guy who I would listen in my choosing of ICO to invest in he was promoting Docademic so good it was a great ICO that we can face recently

The USA is stuck in the atone age as far as ICOs go and when all the block chain start ups avoid the USA like the plague, I wonder if they will begin to relax their policy then...

At the end of the day, even if McAfee can somehow see the future and the SEC are going to arrest people involved in ICOs, it will only affect Americans.

Do you honestly think that McAfee would stop recommding ICOs? Also do look at what he said, he is writing an article for an alternative that the SEC won't touch. Sure, that won't trigger pump and dump right? Dude, pump and dump, alongside with ICO recommendations are the only reason why McAfee became filthy rich. Obviously he is going to go behind the SEC and do some shit. This is not good,this might even worsen things up.

I don't think so maybe in the future he will promote ICO again, but for now he will not promote anything coz it's on the compliance of U.S SEC however if they change rules and lift the ban of ICO it's going to be different. I hope U.S SEC will change their mind.

This is serious, for John McAfee to have made such a statement about SEC openly I wonder what is going to happened next in the crypto space. I just pray that something positive should follow not something negative.

i have not heard on mcafee either way. but i still think it's good for him to stop.

Mm, there was a quite certainty when McAfee supported some ICO that it will go up and over ICO price, I followed him and his advice, that's a bad news to read this.

Good riddance I say, I really don't like these so-called celebrity ICO promoters basically shilling one project after the next for cash. I have never yet invested in any project based on his recommendations I would rather do my own research. The US has been non-friendly towards ICO for quite some time so this is nothing new.

I think he is right to do this. Because ordinary people just want to obtain short-term profits, and its recommendation is recognition of cryptocurrency, he sees the future, so the two goals are inconsistent, but the market is down, naturally many people are not happy.

actually relying on a figure who has a name in promoting the ICO is great for shared marketing. However, it seems he received a warning for what she did. either there is a problem what is certainly no one knows. but the obvious, if it is sustainable, will certainly lift ICO.

It has no problem with ICOs of the other projects. As long as the project is not fake, do ICO I support developers. If they can do ICO , they;d better move their office to free land like in Africa or other countries that need no SeC or KYC. It is easier to invest without KYC. KYC is and SeC is actually prevent our finacial freedom.

this guy is like a poison mushroom for crypto world , help manipulations and Pump , dumps , he got influences in the market only coz he is rich not because he is a good asset for the market!
I'm happy to hear that news and would be happier is i see he is in jail for promoting Scam ICOs!

For Me I don't Care what He say John mcAfee is just made millions of dollars from the previous ICO that he was promoting, thats why he is Fined now! I think regulation is the key in doing ICO and must adhere the Law before doing any CrowdFunding activities, and even US base startups still doing and ICO/ITO  as long as it was comply all U.S SEC requirements . in my own perspective US is not the World. U.S SEC has no power in other territories so why Spread the FUD and nuts. about this

Something might be happening some where that we cannot say for now because for John McAfee to suddenly raise this kind of alarm about SEC after all the hype about ICOs, I think something would happened soon. Let us watch out!

Did the ICO's he promoted were good projects? is he was analyzing everything or just promoting?

But he will have to pay for all promotions he did so far. Same as anyone else. Everyone should research what he is promotion. You cant say I have no ideas what that is I am doing tit just because I get paid.

Last month, he was accused by SEC of promoting an ICO by a team called Pink-Taxi, which allegedly stole intellectual property from a blockchain-based taxi platform called A2B Taxi Token. In response to a user question asking how much he charged to promote that ICO, John said:
Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/997292935644438528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ccn.com%2Fjohn-mcafee-endorsed-ico-apologizes-for-plagiarizing-content-from-blockchain-taxi-platform%2F

As he also claimed that his ICO advisory service charged $500,000 per tweet as well as $100,000 per reply. His website, meanwhile, says that tweets cost $105,000 across the board. Now he claimed that he must cease his public support for ICOs !!!! After becoming the most rich person from his shady behaviors, he decide to run for president of the United States in 2020  ;D  :D
Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1003387827395186688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ccn.com%2Fico-promoter-john-mcafee-says-hes-running-for-president-again%2F

This man is one of the greedest ever, in my opinion !!

McAfee is an idiot who is not credible. The fact that he no longer supports the ICOs further demonstrates that ICO projects in the future will not have the same potential as before, requiring ICO projects to change to fit into cryptocurrency market in the future.

It is high time. To such personalities, now, having purchased cheap bitcoin, it remains only to distract yourself by something 2-3 years, and they suddenly become the most influential people in the world, for why should they promote the ICO?  :D

I think he can does whatever he wants, he has so much money so is not a big los for him if he will not be Advisor for Others Icos.

personally, I think if He just made it for his security no more, no less and it is true that SEC threats are doing their things from him.
He's earned a million dollars with the ICO promotion he's done so far. So let's wait for what's going on next.

People like McAfee should be role models in the activity of the crypto market because the analysis and speculation he did on the price of an altcoin or ICO project never missed, especially when he was speculating about the ICO he was campaigning on several media social accounts. We should be proud because McAfee is not stingy to share his thoughts for us all related to the development and prediction of a cryptocurrency.

Voices like that are hard to shut down. Like he said, he will return with a different solution. Estimations in crypto anyway defy logic due to its volatile unpredictability, so i think this shouldnt really be a setback to anyone.

Everyone that promotes ICOs will have to pay for they when they will get sued for scamming issuing securities out of law designed procedures. He will have pile of charges for sure.

Agree! John McAfee has lot of money, he can do whatever he wants, he is one of the reason of pumps and dumps, only one tweet from him, he can make millions of dollar in just one tweet. I am really disagree on what he is doing, promoting ICO or other coins, just to make money.

He just promoting, never I see the ICO he promoted turns out to be an amazing investment but an ordinary ones, he's just an ordinary man like anyone else but popular so he don't know which of the project could be really succesfull and here
I just curious whether he has forgotten his dickline or not seeing the market turns out the opposite to what he has predicted lol.

Isn't most of ICO now forbid the joining of US citizens, what different it makes if SEC gives threats or not ! . I really do not get it .

I was in of of the ICO he promoted lately, and I can tell you the outcome was amazing, to be honest beyond amazing .But I am sure it is just because of the hype not because he spotted good project, but agaon what is not about hype in most ICOs .

Less ICO promotions from McAfee = less crying newbies that they got scammed. I'm not a fan of ICOs and I've never been one, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion. John McAfee found the opportunity to get some easy money by promoting these ICOs and he did it, once the hate bar started hitting new limits, he immediately starting backing off and changing his strategy. I don't hate this guy, but I'm not a fan of him either. People are free to do whatever their want and follow whoever they want, but in the end it all comes to their own due diligence.

mcafee finally stops and i think it's just fine. they were all bought tweets anyway and i did not listen to him.

I think that it's even better without him. Good ICOs like Quark chain, Sparkster or NuCypher dont need his shills anyway. And no need to promote crappy projects. He's been doing paid shills

That's good its the end of the pump and dump, so many people are looking on Mcafee's post for a coin to hype and with his recent announcement that will stop this game, I'm sure he do not want to face court charges so he is now washing his dirty hands in public, wonder how much money he made doing this thing.

I think it's a wise choice. Preventing being involved is more likely a good move to avoid being affected with the secs mess. Many people already backing out to be safe.

I think a decision of one man should not affect the decision of all. We all have our own judgment and we know what is the right thing to do. Many of the people today are already educated so we can make our own choice and be responsible for the outcome.

It is probably best that Mcafee not pump any ICOs or other coins. Buying into any ICOs just going by someone's tweets and without doing your own due diligence is not going to work well.

now he is in news again . he is hospitalized because someone poisoned him . dont know what the hell is happening in world , first this crypto dip now this maccffe incident of stopping promotion of ICOs . If he was afraid then why he promoted ICOs which steal someone else intellectual property . he takes money for tweet , sponsorship is not that bad for money promoting a shit is not sponsorship it is called to help the scammers.

But for maccaffe it works perfectly , on his tweet any coin be popular after a series of tweets . in december he realized his power and started tweeting coin of the day then coin of the week news . asap he used to tweet coin would be pumped like a binance listing . but this thing worked only for few weeks , later he moved to promote icos .
so those people who just buy anything on advice of any youtuber or twitter shiller then it is a lesson for them .

Thank God.

He is just pulling a lot of investors on his side which is really not a good choice of the investors but the choice of him. We know there are still many idiots who just relies on celebrities like this not knowing what they are really entering.
It might be the best decision he will ever made for the good of those ICO's. Give others a chance and just let the investors do their research into what ICO is really the best for them. Take their own risk.
I bet there will be pump with other ICO now thinking the tokens that he is supporting will get dumped soon.

It's a good gesture from government to minimize market manipulation on crypto market space. If someone's twitter dictates the price of one asset it will inflate the crypto bubble uncontrolled and will lead to many people hurt in the end.

I wouldn't trust the guy who tells that he will eat his own penis. He can say what ever he wants. I'm not even sure that his poisoning is real. It can be faked to gain more users or promote himself.

The guy tells that he will be US president. Sure...
But if it's true then it's good that he doesn't promote scam projects anymore.

What a fishbone removing to our neck  :P. I like like there's no much more shills for him in either ways he will wrote an articles which is not totally healthy because he use to review and post some ICO's that he knows is good? or it was intended because he was paid for it who knows i am just building my mind into reality what is the current situations nowadays.

I think John McAfee just do it because he is getting flamed by others we all know how big the payment for him just to do a review for a certain ICO. But not all the ICO he promoted become successful some failed also this is why he is getting threats and etc etc. However McAfee is still good at doing reviews and analysis.

I think, such famous men shouldnt to find  in ICO recommendations. because the failure of the ICO later on will both shake that person's confidence and become an obstacle for future ICOs. also the advice of people in their field is very important for ICO. they should be taken into consideration.

I think that's his choice what he wants to do but whenever he promoted ICO's people should be using their own brains before investing or pumping or dumping of any project, certainly he is very poplar in cryptocurrency space, one person cant make big dent to any industry.

I guess I missed that one and was surely out of my radar, but I kinda agree with you, the hype affect the whole project and people who get involved aswell. John known to be a popular rich person so it's not a strange thing that people will follow his steps or even his saying
Just like when Bill Gates says a thing or two and people are freaking out about it, even media publishing it repeatedly.

this was highly affects the crypto world, but be patient as he said. I think he has some plans. let's just hope that he will continue to stay on crypto world with us.

it looks like john mcafee is not too fond of and is not willing to support ico anymore because maybe john mcafee is made upset by some ico he supports so it makes him better not to mention anymore about ico.

He due fabricated it championing his guarantor no deeper, no fewer and it's aright that the SEC risks is behavior their abstraction away of him. He already fabricated a billion of dollars with that ICO's promotions so he's also worthy now.

Guys, that's some good news right there – John has some seriously bad publicity following him around – I'm glad that he's not supporting ICOs no more – the general public's opinion on crypto might actually improve because of that

He should move to another country and keep shilling. He could live in an island that has Internet access. Why caring about SEC if they don't have jurisdiction over foreign countries?

I can't understand John McAfee good intentions or bad, I think he's very cunning, remember how he made pampas of coins.

all of which he promoted ico was gaining a lot of money, and you could know where to invest. too bad he won't do it anymore.

Finally!!! I'm so tired form him. He only manipulated the market and promote some shitcoins for money. He just uses people .

It is better that he decided to stop promoting initial coin offerings because some people think if John McAfee promote the project people will think immediately that the project is good and worth to invest but the reality is people will last to appreciate the project by the concept or goal of a coin or token.

I think it is such a sad thing. Most of the ICOs he promoted always succeed and makes investors gained a lot of profit afterward. I've never invested any of my money into his promoted ICOs though (which I still regret to this day). Don't forget that this market is fueled by hype, regardless the project is good or not, the only thing that matters is the money. And John McAfee, he knows what he's doing, and he also knows how to make those people put money into his words. Actually, in my opinion, it would be better if he can still shill those ICOs.

Most of the ICOs he promoted turned out to be either scams or failures and a lot of people lost their money invested in them. If the SEC takes any action against McAfee, then I am going to support them. And don't forget the fact that this guy initially opposed the concept of crypto-currency before making an u-turn.

it has a huge effect in the crypto world, john mcafee is a huge name that everyone knows. but I think, it is just for now, because, most the the ico's that is being promoted turned out to be scam.

Voices like that are hard to shut down. Like he said, he will return with a different solution. Estimations in crypto anyway defy logic due to its volatile unpredictability, so i think this shouldnt really be a setback to anyone.

it is best he doesn't promote ICO there are too many shitcoin now, cryptocurrency is now a scam hive scammers making away with millions of dollar.  

I'm glad he did, of course, he want to save himself because some of these are scam project, and of course, he already made a lot of money and he wants to exist but I wonder what is this alternative he is mentioning not another investment scheme or mlm.

personally, I think if He just made it for his security no more, no less and it is true that SEC threats are doing their things from him.
He's earned a million dollars with the ICO promotion he's done so far. So let's wait for what's going on next.

never liked the idea of mcafee promoting some ICO's in return of money, I would only invest and give trust to someone promoting such project for free. If money is involved i care less so mcafee is not a lost, and thankfully pump and dump will be lessen.

This is good news. For the time been, the shillings and the hype will seize and the news worthy quality project will get proper attention they deserve. I think shillers and pumpers does nothing good for cryptocurrency ecosystem.

It is even better he quits the game because he is nothing but a king of pump and dump, a lot of people have lost their money because of his calling and the worst is that he is been paid for those calling, meaning they will buy a ton of coins and call it out and dump on people.

He had a right direction, the scam ICO project is now a lot. If he continues to promote ICO projects, he will soon go to jail for a number of unreliable ICO projects. I think the SEC is working very well because ICO projects need to be strictly monitored. Investors will feel secure and invest.

I have always believed that John McAfee is being paid for some of his Twitter activities. Jumbing onboard any token without deep checks and research. To him, every ICO will moon and have been misleading some people. This will stop unnecessary pump and dumps in the crypto space.
We can now make right decisions without any paid tweets.

I appreciate this. I do not like the market trend being affected by his words. It is good for him not to promote the ICO.

Well.. This is somewhat good.  And the reason for this I suppose would be Becsuse of regulation that is coming to cryptocurrency.  Many people that promote scam project will be sued and possibly prosecuted in regulated market.

McAfee has promoted many undeserving projects and I believe that it is no longer very credible because he has no hesitation in putting off its promise after a day. Having said that, I agree with some of the things he said, such as the fact that privacy coins are thought and it will be difficult to stop them. I have chosen some projects that make privacy their long-term strength, so if there are stringent regulations their price should increase.
Most of them are microcap projects like DeepOnion, Cloak and Spectre. I'm following even Tangram, a private DAG, they seems really badass!

ICO projects with the support of celebrities like him will be known. He is an influential person, I think this is not good for ICO

It is true, nobody having enough money would risk his reputation or getting in troubles with SEC from promotion. But I think such people would be also interested in market, so let's wait what he will do next.

For a long time, I have not had a proper sympathy with McAfee for predicting and promoting ICOs. He had predicted that the exchange rate would rise to $ 1 million by 2020 unless he would bite his penis. And now he says he will not work with ICOs anymore, which will help the cryptos market avoid a lot of exchange rate instability.

I think the project is better than expected. and the ICO was successful. July 12 will be on the trading floor.

Can't agree more to this, McAfee has such huge impact, especially for cryptocurrency projects. Promoting by him makes the project swings in value. I agree that privacy coins you mentioned here cant be stopped.

At some point, John started promoting every project thinking he was helping decentralization. I believe he noticed that this reduced the value of his recommendations and will soon support projects with real value. He promoted DeepOnion's new website but I'm not sure if it got good attention in the middle of all the altcoin hype. After hearing him speak in the last video, he put good emphasis on privacy coins. Decentralization and our privacy will give us our power back from the old corrupted banking system.

I believe that this is a tactical move by Mr. McAfee. Or a PR move. In any case, it is difficult for me to analyze his actions, but I am interested in watching the events.

I agree he lost a bit of credibility when he started promoting anything and everything. I too liked his emphasis on the privacy coins. There is a definite need for them, especially the ones that offer real world value.

I think he lost popularity, when he started promoting all the projects that paid for it but the project was not successful then the trust would be lost. actually if he wants to vote with a fair project well and I do not think trust will still be there for him. people like him are actually very important in promotions, but unfortunately if he does not promote ico project anymore.

Well this ICO thing has hurted the cryptocurrency world more then anything else. And i think it'll end and then the cryptos will rise. Good thing is that he has parted his way from the ICOs. We have to demote this ICO stuff else crypto won't rise. It is eating the cryptoworld very badly.

A few days ago Mr. John McAfee challenged to SEC but now McAfee talking differently. How much I know McAfee don't worry anyone because he talks right way and strictly. I think there have something behind this situation.

Individuals like McAfee ought to be good examples in the action of the crypto advertise on the grounds that the examination and theory he did on the cost of an altcoin or ICO venture never missed, particularly when he was guessing about the ICO he was battling on a few media social records. We ought to be pleased in light of the fact that McAfee isn't closefisted to share his contemplations for every one of us identified with the advancement and expectation of a cryptographic money.

well macfee is  in a pump and dump group  he was beginning to talk too much,he is cool tho he blocked me for asking him some few questions.

It seems to me that what happened to him unequivocally makes it clear that money still has the main value among such people as a person. It is for money that we are working and eating today.

John McAfee does not promote the ICO, he just loads money for projects, and after the pampa no one needs these projects! I believe that this is a fraud, and for this should be punished, as well  all the stars involved in such actions!

This is a good news for everycryptocurrency, why? JOHN MCAFEE allegedly promote ICO because he is being paid.
if that is true then those who dont want to pay will left behind.
is he really paid from what he did before?

Good thing, John is a parasite to this market, a lot of people who have followed the advice of john have all ended up investing in scam projects which they lost their money to. John does not look out for anyone else but himself. This is not a loss to us, everyone should be happy that someone like John has stopped promoting icos, one step closer to getting rid of scam icos.

No love lost I say, I truly don't care for these supposed VIP ICO promoters essentially shilling one anticipate after the following for money. I have never yet put resources into any task in light of his suggestions I would rather do my own particular research. The US has been non-accommodating towards ICO for a long while so this is just the same old thing new.

haha. His advice only really ever pumped coins up temporarily anyhow. He should have stuck to mining, i do enjoy reading his stuff for a laugh though, the part where he says people running ICO's can look forward to being arrested cracked me up.

the choice of someone to invest or not must be left on their own choice and not restrict the influencers to shut up. Even if McCafe won`t promote them there are thousands of others who do it, so it is not a solution I guess.

It was worth waiting for, he got his cutlet money, and now he is ready to calmly move away from the sinking ship. I did not expect from the creation of the lousiest antivirus of other actions, it fully justifies its nickname and desire to make money on any garbage.

I believe that it is high time for John to retire, I never liked his approach to PR, he is too dirty. I think John is still a liar.

that is old news, this topic should be closed and stop the debate about mcAfee. I don't even like some issues that make bitcoin prices fall.
I don't care about him, but some people still believe he gave a pump signal for some coins.

John McAfee is very influential on the ico project. I did not understand many of the successful ico projects because John McAfee participated in the project. I saw on John McAfee's twitter account. A very successful ICO like the doc that I know this year.

Mr Macafee helped many ICOs to gain popularity during the bull season last year and he must have been paid or compensated for it. ICOs are hardly successful nowadays because of the bears. Sanity is good for the cryptos system.