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Friends, McAfee became the man of the year in a crypto entity, do you agree?
How do you feel about his statements and predictions, is he capable of influencing the market so much to become a person of the year in our midst?

MCafee does not have the qualities to be crypto man of the year. Although, his statements and predictions once influenced the crypto market but everything change when he started making false statements in other to promote some project which he was paid for.

Cryptoman of the year are you kidding me?
Mcfee lost credibility a long time ago. You should go have a look on his twitter wall and see how low he has stooped. At one point he was even promoting shitcoin offerings and then at another point he was talking of introducing his own paper currency. The old man just looked like someone who was high on drugs to me.

Wow great happy news ... McAfee is a perfect man who is expert in cryptocurrency. I like and love McAfee very much.

No.
He is influencing the market when he say such words that affecting everyone. But most of his words aren't believable anymore, he lost his credibility after doing a pump and dump scheme through twitter.

We’ll see...

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Are you serious? Looks like you're just trolling, how can he be the crypto man of the year wherein he doesn't have any crypto project? What he do is to influence the market that's it. And remember he says that his gonna eat his manhood, Lol. Crypto world is pretty much fuck up when you have like John McAfee becoming the crypto man of the year. Lol.

I imagine he was referring to this, but I would agree that McAfee is only influential amongst the shitcoin crowd.

https://news.bitcoin.com/survey-finds-john-mcafee-is-most-influential-crypto-trading-figure/

You must be kidding, dude. Why do you think he deserved this award? Because he was best paid shill on Twitter where he promoted some shitcoins? Maybe crypto clown of the year name would fit better for him.

This man is so connected to the crypto world, he is a true enthusiast of the crypto world, his voice can even be said. Not always his vision of the development of the crypto community looks adequate, he suffered a lot for his opinion, so I think that he can be safely called the man of the year in the crypto world. There is another candidate - Alexander Borodich from Russia, a very famous person, the creator of the Universa company, for 2017 during the ICO attracted more than 22 million dollars of investment.

Hell no, I think there's more deserving people than McAfee that can be considered as crypto man of the year. Also you guys probably didn't know that his own hardware wallet got hacked. He might be influential to some because of his speculations but I don't think it's enough for anyone to be crowned as crypto man of the year.

Anyone that thinks he should be the crypto man of the year must read more things about him before agreeing with the OP.

That's what happens when someone gets paid to advertise altcoins.

I thought I was the most influential man of the year.....
Hold on. That would be next year or the year after that.  :P
Probably I can do a positive survey about myself and win if I wanted to.

Please guys, things can be manipulated, or people taking part in them (if random) don't have a clue whats what.
I really can't believe this crap news, he should be in The CrapCrypto Hall of Fame, along with Craig his fiance Roger and others. Come on, get real.

his statement is actually more or less like a bagholder who thinks the market will recover quickly, of course we can see it from all his statements as if he could predict that bitcoin will go to that price without any supporting factors. He should just say rational things about the recent market, no need to overdo it

I'm not sure whether a man connected to abuse, violent crimes, money laundering and drugs is an ideal person to represent crypto community.
I'll pass, thanks.

Are you asking people if they agree? How many altcoins have a huge increase because of McAfee's opinion? the answer: there are many altcoins, so as in this world the opinion of the majority wins, we can say: " McAfee is crypto man of the year "  even if I do not like him.


I see it as a joke


of course yes, just see that people paid him to give him opinion on his altcoins

Crypto man of the year? For sure 99% here on crypto community would really oppose to that knowing that this old geezer do tell lots about bitcoin he might give out some positive
but most of the times he give out negative comments which been cause for the public or community do hate him much or doesn't really put up any attention to his words.
In short this man isn't really worthy to be called.

Everyone who praises this guy needs to watch the documentary about him called Gringo on Netflix.

The guy is a con artist, he's purely in this to make easy money being paid by shitcoin ICOs. Don't trust anything that he spews.

No.


He is just like the rest of speculators and just like what others have said, he is earning like 6 figures for every coin he shill on his twitter. But I admire how good he is in manipulating coins there, LOL. He even claim that his twitter account was hacked and he is not the one making all that tweets. LMAO. Well, he earned a lot from this crypto verse but sooner or later people will get tired hearing from this guy.

Absolute nonsense! This man is just a clown who is engaged in the promotion of cryptocurrency and all sorts of ICO projects in the network and nothing more. The person of the year in cryptocurrency should be considered the one on whose account the maximum amount of digital money at the moment. To talk about bitcoin, we all can, but it is reasonable to dispose of it can only units.

Time will prove everything.

Agreed, as time/history has already proven John McAfee to be a clown & a ZERO credibility individual.

I also disagree that McAfee is the man of the year. This is a person who just makes money from advertising. Yes, at one time he created a product, after which he became famous. But today there are more worthy individuals who can claim this title.

Some say he's a person who promotes himself, he makes money but he too has invested into crypto. If he hasn't made any investment, but commenting from the outer layer then it is not appropriate. But, he has invested big and I consider his talks as a hope. Because cryptocurrency is all about uncertainty, everyone know it grows. But, none has a perfect data about its time requirement.

seems they cant find good personalities at all

I found him a lot of advisors to some ico, my friend said he had good predictions in trading. for me, he was the only lucky person to get a free position from comments about Crypto and some of his followers on Twitter. I did not follow it, but I admit he is the one who has great followers.

I feel sorry for all the people who paid McAfee to shill their coins this year, I guess they each paid something like $100k per Tweet if I remember correctly. So if he made 20 Tweets he already has nice money to buy even more spots. And then he's running Presidency for USA, too, so people have all paid for his campaign funding haha!

Pity even more those who bought coins this year because McAfee said so. I admit I did it a couple of times with Tron but luckily made my money selling high.

he's just an old man who has big ambitions. nothing special.
some say he was "man of the year" at that time.for me he would be better still and not talk about crypto.

We will see it in 2020. Too obsessed with things that have not happened, bitcoin is not a miracle, all need a process to pass.

Who said that? Those group must be drug addicts who just decided to award that McAfee bastard. Mcafee is not the type of person that people should look up to because in my few years here in crypto, I've witnessed many of his stupid  acts in the cryptospace just like endorsing shitty ICOs for money.

Mr. McAfee had to understand this before saying anything to uncertainty.
Anyway it is too late, we are waiting for that day (the image referring to...)

Personally, I'm angry with him because he talks a lot... for him one of my investment depreciated a lot.  >:(

Those people who made a lot of money because of McAfee shilling tons of worthless coin. The same people who ride along book their profits and left. And now, McAfee is taking it to the next level by declaring his intentions to run for the US President. LOL. And just reading by the comments here, majority doesn't agree with the results.

Many people tried to speak against McAfee predictions, but I think he is doing a good job and the reason why bitcoin was able to make surprise movements in 2017 was because of his predictions and speculations.  Even his prediction look unachievable I think he has influenced the market really.  He should be the man of the year.

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I think there is nothing wrong if he will be a crypto man of the year,  it is good that is someone who is well known to promote bitcoin. This is a good thing that some other well-known people or who has power will get interested in bitcoin. He can influence most people because of his popularity.

Large sum of investments have come into the cryptocurrency once after predictions put forth by McAfee which is true. His predictions were very wild, but now the market is completely unpredictable. Even now if he's requested to predict the future market of bitcoin, he'll be doing the same. In some way I believe he's full of positive thoughts about bitcoin.

See the McAfee predictions in the last year and see the actual price of bitcoin and you will just laugh at him.  ;D  Being such a Senior person his prediction were not even close to reality. However he always remain popular in the news as people still believe that his predictions do effect the bitcoin price pump or dump.

I think that Mcafee is simply a man who enjoys a reputation in which he often receives great rewards for saying in what cryptocurrency to invest, without relying on a technical or fundamental analysis, he is just a character who gives often disastrous investment advice, Avoid this, it is very necessary to learn to understand the market.

I don't think McAfee deserve to be called the Crypto man of the year. Those days the name McAfee was a very good name in the space. He keeps predicting on daily basis and things started going wrong for him when he started promoting projects without basis in th Cryptocurrency Space because he was being paid for doing such. Also I remember he predicted BTC to hit $50K or he will eat his b**ls. I believe he might have started doing that now. Justin Sun, the CEO of Tron/BTT and CZ Binance should be given the award simultaneously.

Wait, does he even have them to begin with?

that is wrong because he does not promote bitcoin but  he was discrediting it  . not sure if you already saw his statements before  , afaik most of them are about bullying the bitcoin . but you were still right , even if we considered him as a basher  , he still expose bitcoin to the public .  

mcafee isnt also the one that does this but there are lots of them who should be the candidate to become the crypto man of the year .


whats that ? is that a meat scepter ?

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Are you seriously? I'd understand if you said Ver or Binance CEO :-\
But McAfee ? Really? He was retired from his company ::)

He has just under 700 days for the price to skyrocket to 1 million until he has to eat his own dick on national television.  Imagine if he actually follows through?

I don't know him but if their prediction and influecing people in good for the crypto community it is good but if it's not maybe he will stop what he do. Predicting what possible is hard.  May I know what is your Idea why you think McAfee is a crypto man of the year what he do to our community?

Really? I'm not aggree. Not like on last year, I was believe him because his statement and token sale who endorse by McAfee average good and success (not all). But as time went on, I thought he was just like a fortune teller hehe, made fail predictions (like me). Now, I follow CEO of Binance, his statement very clear and not excessive.

Everybody knows how McAfee lives, but not everybody has heard what he says...
So, you can take lessons ::)
https://shitcoinoffering.com/16-lessons-learn-john-mcafee/

We should also be able to learn and predict the future as this will help our self also to make money and trade accordingly. One should be good with research and have a broader vision about how countries could react to it and can take decision. This will help to plan and predicts accordingly and we can also be the Mcafee in coming years.

Even after lots and lots of criticisms he'll come up with predictions giving hope to the bitcoin users. Earlier whenever popular cryptocurrency analysts come up with large scale predictions the market gets impacted to some extent. Such a strong mind of him gets the crypto man of the year.

John Mcafee attracts a lot of haters but I still think he is more good than harmful for crypto.  He helps attract new users, even though he got caught accepting money to shill projects I believe he has good intentions.  He doesn't want the government to have control over everything we do in our daily lives.

We all receive some money to promote some project, we all wear signatures. I think he said once that he believes in projects he advertise, maybe he really do, he even got money for that, good for him. In that manner I will agree with you, what ever he did or doing is good for crypto, he have his opinion and he share it with everyone. It's one of the good things about crypto, transparency, freedom of speech. It's not matter do we like him or not, we do need to give him some respect for his fight against government, for freedom. Personally I don't like many things about him, but in some matters he really have a point. Bottom line is that he is interesting guy, not so bad, doing what he can to survive, but I wouldn't say or vote for him in contest for the crypto man of the year.

Surely he will change his statement few days before if the things are not moving as he predicted. These bold statements are only to create attraction / views and nothing else



How can McAfee can be Man of the year when none of his prediction is any close to be true ?

Mcafees predictions about bitcoin has made a little impact  on the price of bitcoin and hopefully bitcoin could reach 50,000$ by 2021. And on that year ill be watching mafee eating his own sh###.

He would really make excuses until that time comes when bitcoins price didnt able to hit up that range. For sure he was thinking on the deal he had said about eating
his dick and now people didnt forget such thing or words came out from his mouth. Honestly speaking, im little bit excited for that  Crypto man of the year would do that exhibition.  ;D

I don't care about him. Maybe the other prediction is really true or already happened but not all because I see some topics this man which is McAfee is prediction about bitcoin to become very high the value. Not only McAfee who predicted and happened because for sure there is a lot of people too who predicted too during the market is very low because prediction is free and until now for me there is no crypto  man of the year .

I kinda reason with him on what he seems to be doing not even about him protecting or shielding Bitcoin from the government but on how he hypes Bitcoin.
Though, his predictions are most times quite unrealistic with those ridiculous figures he keeps calling. But looking at it in other way,  the guy is indirectly hyping Bitcoin to attract more investors.

No, of course , he advertises all sorts of projects with low confidence, I think the man of the year is the creators of the crypto-exchange binance!

We can't say like that because he is a general man like other people. He can't pump or dump the crypto market. Yes, everyone can predict for the market movements depends on own analysis which he did.

I do not think you understand how McAfee works. He asks for specific money to shill a specific project. That is, he is paid PER Tweet, which is guaranteed to talk positive about it, that is,,, to be paid to shill.

A good signature campaign only advertises in your post, you do not need to promote it specifically. In fact, a good campaign would require you not to shill it. You can even criticize your campaign and still get paid.

So what McAfee does is harmful to crypto. But anyway, good, in the long run. So altcoins lose money and he gets to buy more Bitcoin!

Are you sure? do you remember his twitter posts pump and dump scheme before?
John McAfee reveals he charges $105,000 per promotional cryptocurrency tweet
 (https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/2/17189880/john-mcafee-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-twitter-ico)

Haha not sure if giving kind look on people who's actions make others invest poorly, is acceptable or necessary.
But there is some truth in your words, no doubt this person behaviour is somewhat influential, whatever positive or harmful is a different question. For me this man is absolutely untrusted. I perceive him as a crypto-charlatan of the year, that's for sure.
He has this bigshot computer guru manner and like with all shells, it is only external, a show and simulation. In one word, he is fake as fuk.

McAfee is a joke. This guy has 0 relevance to crypto and to anything anyway.

Maybe he has the bling because of his money, but his influence is close to 0 and so is his knowledge.

I don't think so, It's true that McAfee is very known in the bitcoin community as a man who predict about projects and which ones will be succeed in the future, but I can't see any clear predictions until now, It's just false prediction and people still believe him, because he is so known, I think some ICO Project paid him for promoting their projects.

Nobody does. His prediction have exactly 0 effect on projects or prices.

They had an effect once, this time is long gone.

Lol. It is the greatest joke in this year.  ;D
I'll never believe with the person like McAfee. He is an unpredictable one.
Personally, I won't trust with everything he said till he proves with the truth.

The reason for people disbelieving on McAfee predictions is that his predictions are all false in the current time and also his predictions seems to be unrealistic ones. I mean who will believe bitcoin to be 50000$ by this year end.
There was time when people seriously listen to him but now time has changed and there is not much interest in his predictions.

Time has proved everything already. McAfee is a joker. He shilled tens of alts in the bull run which are nearing zero value right now. Remember dentacoin? Bitcoin private? Every altcoin he shilled has been an absolute mess, nothing else.

I have never believed in him, he simply gives predictions and I believe that his credibility has dropped recently, I prefer to stick to review the market and make possible projections due to my analysis, the criterion of him does not even have bases.

Exactly, i would probably call him a "good entertainer" in crypto industry, he got huge fame through his bad judgments. ;D
He pumped Docademic(MTC) in the beginning through his statements like "A diamond in rough" etc. but soon it falls badly and still this coin is not able to recover it's price.

I don't know the yardsticks and parameters he is using to make those fictitious predictions having reviewed the market behavior in the last two years McAfee predictions is becoming null and void without any iota of truth and without any bases I think its high time we ignored this man maybe he is an attention seekers who trying to be more relevant in the cryptos world.

Maybe because he has been in the public domain either for the good reasons or the bad ones but someone actually has to start making does talks and drama for cryptocurrency, this will further endear people to it. Although, speaking out should not include scam alert because it will scare people away .

Yes I agree with your opinion because until now he has always spread kindness (triggering enthusiasm especially for new crypto users), besides that he's also a strong and enthusiastic man, for example when crypto prices fall which was quite prolonged, his positive comments often appeared in his tweeter. However, because the predictions that he said tend and are often excessive, it sometimes makes the majority of crypto users think of it as something that is fakes or lies. So, what McAfee said doesn't seem to have a big impact on the market, because what he predicted, maybe would be considered stale predictions/expectations.

The best thing is that people should be able to become self judge and try to analyze the situation and decide the next course of action how will market behave and considering the whole economy of crypto and how does future hold. If people can start doing this with experience they them self will have a fair idea about how things might turn up.

He is not the best men in the world but he is one who makes crypto industry popular and recognizable :)

I disagree. People around the globe are now making fun of him due to his crazy predictions, he's starting to look like a troll, instead of someone who influences.

You're right in the wrong way, how could we say that he is the best man or just we say the beast man :D(nah just kidding)
That old man all his prediction is nothing make sense and nothing's happening, but yes probably he is doing that just because he wanted to be the most popular person and I think he did it with his troll predictions.

I wonder how people will look at his face in April

John McAfee to Attend the World Blockchain Summit in New Taipei City this April (https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/john-mcafee-to-attend-the-world-blockchain-summit-in-new-taipei-city-this-april)

Four-Day Blockchain Cruise Brings John McAfee and Industry Leaders Aboard (https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/four-day-blockchain-cruise-brings-john-mcafee-and-industry-leaders-aboard)


True

Actually the words from the famous people and celebratory are always famous and whatever they say will be listen and heard by many. This is the reason that their words and acts are taken as important in the society. 
Although John McAfee perditions are useless but still people listen to them and react on them.

John McAfee is the least trusted person in the crypto world as all of his saying are totally opposite in reality. He is not seen as a legend in the crypto world. I do not think his attendance in blockchain events matter any more.

I like john mcafee cause he is always a bull.,ive been  following him and reading his  everyday post on twitter about bitcoin reaching 1,000,000$ by 2021.

People in the crypto-sphere, we all know him and for me he's not the man of the year. For those who stayed in the bear market, I could say that we all believe in cryptocurrencies and blockchain as much as he do and he is not extra ordinary compared to all of us. I would put my vote on the CEO of Binance "Changpeng Zhao" for things he has done in the community.

Things like this :
https://www.ccn.com/binance-foils-cryptopia-hacker-by-freezing-stolen-crypto
https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-launches-decentralized-crypto-exchange-testnet
and so on.....

I have shared a same opinion earlier in this forum in a similar thread earlier but some moderator has deleted that message, i really did not question that action because i thought i was over the line to criticize in the same fashion as i followed his crypto journey and invested in a few coins he advertised and then later found he was doing it just for money and not having any idea about the project. His words and actions have no value and he is in it for the fame and he is getting plenty. :P

For me, MCafee doesn't suits the title to be the Crypro Man of the Year. Maybe, he have been contribute a lots of good things in the crypto currency community in the past but all was change when he make flase statements and information for promoting some crypto projects for money.
And more than that, we all can do to talk about Bitcoin, but the person of the year here in the crypto currency community is the one that could be considered to be the one which account the maximun amount of crypto money at that time.

McAfee is too much of an off the handle nut job. That's hard to say for crypto. LoL. Really though, he has some good ideas and advice, I just don't see him as crypto man of the year. I think he will wind up eating his own dick. https://diegorod.github.io/WillMcAfeeEatHisOwnDick/

Cant wait to see such event. hahaha

$1M is too much even how fast the price would go up on the remaining years.It is still impossible to consider to each $1M on any angle.I would rather call
McAfee as Dick Man of the year.

Yeah, today he is the crypto man and tomorrow he will say something that crypto community will not like and he will fall from the throne. This is not worth bothering, people just give to much attention to men like McAfee, whether they say good or bad things about crypto but they are not really relevant at all.

I doubt he goes through with it, even though 1M seems near impossible. Although, yes it would be hilarious to see this event!

Agreed. He will say something off the ringer that will put him back at the rich nut job level he once was. Look into the guy. He has such a shady history!

I am not sure.
he only became a number of advisors to ico, then crowned as crypto man of the year.
This is nonsense, unless he buys thousands of bitcoins to pump. haha I agree more. ;D

It's some sort of her joke to make McAfee Tue crypto man of the year. What really did he do for the crypto community except to cause it to dip with his verbose FUD. He was part of the reason Bitcoin dipped that hard in 2018. Nothing should qualify him for that envious tag! He isn't a positive image for the community.