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By CCN.com: Another day, another John McAfee tweet pumping a cryptocurrency project that has alarming red flags. The latest dubious crypto token is called Apollo, an “all-in-one” cryptocurrency with supposedly-private transactions.

CRYPTO DEVELOPERS CALL OUT MCAFEE-LINKED APOLLO
However, according to crypto development firm Jelurida, Apollo’s so-called privacy features promoted are not so private after all.

https://www.ccn.com/warning-this-john-mcafee-pumped-cryptocurrency-has-major-red-flags

John McAfee is now become the  known crypto troll and nobody is taking him seriously. I think only news sites use the people like McAffe and faketoshi to make news.

It was idiotic people were buying what John McAfee saying. Even there were bots at some point. Just crazy.

He was getting paid to do this, and also he was buying coins before. That stupid trend made him richer. At least it is over now.

He is an old guy who seeks attention, nothing more. If want to have fun by giving him what he wants, that's fine. Can't blame you but you should also think about the noobs who'll enter crypto via McAffee's suggestions.

When those people get scammed by those shitcoins, they'll go away and never come back.

Actually I'm a fan of Apollo currency and I'm not a fan of john McAfee ,I think Apollo will do better but all the same cryptocurrency is unpredictable and its full of ups and down so no risk no reward

Now there are a lot of predictions for cryptocurrency on the increase chart, while what happens is the opposite, I have never seen a prediction of cryptocurrency at a declining price, so in predictions we cannot fully trust it.

Nothing new. He is familiar for pumping shitcoins from previous. As far as I know once he said he will not anymore endorse or in other word, he will not pump any shitcoins but still doing the same. Don't take his words seriously because he isn't going to eat his dick ever.

Who wants to buy a pumped coin, people who buy pumped coins should expect to lose their investment the next day, also if this coin have red flags why would people buy it, sometimes i dont understand people.

I don't buy any tokens / coins where celebrities or people like McAfee are involved . There is plenty of coins with ''popular people on board'' , Steven seagal , pewpewdie , Rappers and many more =D Look where the projects at now ....

This dude has already helped pump and dump many altcoins. I have never followed his recommendations but I remember some time ago when I held some LUX coins I had mined before. All of a sudden, the price skyrocketed and I was wondering why. It turned out that John McAfee started rooting for them. Needless to say that after a while the pump ended. Today one can take a look at the charts to see where this coin is, and I can tell you, not very high. The moral of the story is if you are going to follow this guy, do it for short term gains provided that the there are people that still buy into his predictions.

I  seen him  promote several tokens, some goes up really high but most of his prediction said otherwise.  I will be careful if this person appears and promoting another coin or token, since almost all of his promoted coins goes  up a bit and have a huge decline leaving those who followed him and did not sell at the right time bagholding worthless token.

 :D Yes, all these these projects are not so private. Soon we will openly trade. ) Yes, and for fraudsters, too, privacy today is not in fashion. Move in front with Sto)

John McAfee for 1 day can write 10 tweets, but the value of his tweets is very low. To be honest, he lost my respect back in 2017. Usually such as McAfee get a lot of money for their posts.

He was one of the guys I followed the most from the first time I met Crypto Coins. I think it's one of the biggest reasons why I'm not better today. Mcafee is an unreliable person!

I can't believe people still fall for McAfee gimmicks in 2019. Apparently his opinion still matters to some, although I am aware the Apollo currency potentials, I just hope the few that buy In don't loose money when the price begins to reverse.

This old guy proved to everyone that he is not going to be serious in cryptocurrency. Once I thought he was a very intelligent man, but that was a long time ago.

At this stage, i do not expect anyone to still think of relying of whatever John McAfee says. he has failed in so many areas. Most of his prediction, if not all, are not working as supposed. He has been acting in his own interest. So think before you take any step based on his advise.

Does anyone here think he believes his own thing?

So he's back to this type of business again? Don't be amazed with the pumping tweets that he's making. I like him as a bitcoin bull but I don't like what he does for shilling altcoins that mostly are pump and dump schemes.

Well, it is all about business of making money.  Why should he shill for some project that do not give me profit, or paid him?  We do not advertise or join a campaign that do not promise us payment :P.  The higher the payment the better, right?  The sad thing is that, this guy lead those who followed him to bankruptcy and regret.  He know he is an icon and he should be more responsible on what he must advertise.  But sadly it is all about making money for him.

Why did you call Apollo a dubious currency?  As far as I know, this currency has been making much waves in the news lately and from what I have come to understand,  most currencies that's considered scam are the best ones in the market

I used to be a big fan of McAfee in my early days as a trader but following his trade calls made me lose a lot of money. I advise people to be careful with him

How is Apollo currency a red flag when no ICO was launched for the project?Apollo is one of the best new project I know of ,last week I sold mine at 0.0017 and now its at 0.0024 ,I think its doing fine ,just stop spreading fake news

Whatever you say, as per my own investigation Apollo team are very well talented and always ready for fix any flaws ,using the 'red flag' word is nonsense even most secured exchanges are getting hacked this days

Yep , I think so too . In 2017, McAfee earned very good money by working as Advisor in various projects. Projects in which he took part was guaranteed to collect soft-cap, but now the situation is opposite and people do not listen to what this person is saying.

I really don't understand why tons of people are still following this man... most of coins he suggested were shit or scams....

The problem with John McAffee  that he made so many controversial statements that now we cannot
blindly trust him, we have to check first. But who you can trust in crypto,  just for yourself.

McAfee probably doesn't even own any of those coins he is promoting and that's because he is getting paid big bucks just to make a simple tweet promoting some coin. I didn't trust that guy since the beginning and it seems like now I am convinced of what he is actually doing in the crypto market.

He is very serious about cryptocurrency. He is not here to gain some attention I believe, he has this "attention" thing from the beginning due to his McAfee Anti Virus.

Peoples started to hate him because he was excessive in shilling cryptocurrencies, also he was taking huge amount of money for his shilling, and in some cases he raised some negative impact. As an example Docademic, I heard that he said something to Hitbtc owner and the owner immediately delisted Docademic.

Anyway, he is also a candidate of next US election most probably. If he wins then cryptocurrency may have good support from the US but it is unlikely he will be elected.

I also had negative thoughts about him. Now, just trying to create some positive thoughts.

I remember that he's receiving around $105,000 for each of his tweets before so it's another controversial marketing strategy on how much he's making doing this again. He always say that he's a bitcoin enthusiast and supporter but it's going different now and mostly about his business. If that's him, the reputation he has before has already some scratch and it's up to him on how he'll mend it. He's probably the person that doesn't really listen to the people surrounding him.

Just look at the coins/tokens that he promoted in the last year, many of his predictions was off.
It will be better if we conduct our own research before buying some coins.
Never relying on someone advice just because they are a popular person.

Anyone who gets paid large sums of money just to shill a lower ranked project obviously has their own agenda whatever that may be so I'd be wary of investing into anything that is endorsed in this fashion, however, that's not to say the project might not have a unique innovation or lack potential just ensure you aren't buying into a pump and dump scheme or vaporware

Never buy any coin shilled by some one especially Mcafee who will promote any coin for money.  Research into the coin and buy it only if it is a good one.

The first red flag here is John McAfee himself. We all know that he is being paid to shill that coin so don't be surprised if he doesn't do any investigation. As long as he is paid like $100k per tweet or whatever, he will easily accept and shill for it.

Second, if that coin get's a good pump, then that's it. Just another pump-and-dump coin because there are a lot of better privacy coins in the market.

Is it a kind of fake news? I cannot see the whole page of the link you have given in the first post, it shows me 404 error code.

I stopped following this McAfee long times ago, but by reading this news, yesterday I visited Mcafee's twitter handle and I was shocked that still many people following his predictions and advise! Then I realize those people are nothing but noobs and they will learn tight when they will fall in the scam by hearing John! Though I don't have any idea about Apollo's red flags, this project seems good to me. But if John Mecafee supports Apollo, then sorry I have to move out from Apollo!

ever since John McAfee started talking about bitcoin and predicting its price every day on every news channel and on every social media back in 2017 he has been planning to pump shitcoins. he even started pumping them a couple of months after he gained the required popularity. so this is not news really that he is still doing the same thing!

in addition to all that he was even getting paid $100,000 for every tweet that he posted in 2017 advertising ICOs. he has lost all credibility ever since.

I don't think many people are taking his tweets seriously anymore. There was a time when i would jump into any coin that john mcafee promotes but now, he's probably just making money from his followers. Though i still think he has good vision for bitcoin but he'd probably eat his own dick come 2020.

I was actually a participant in that group and I can assure you that I have never made profit trading out of those signals , yet a lot of people said they make profit especially mcafee himself, though I don't doubt that he made profit because I believe he is going to dump all his coin on us leaving us stranded in the market and then coming back to show us how the market increased by a large number of percentage within a very short period.

Well, whatever him and many other popular image does as regards crypto pumping still favors me, what I do is never to hold most of those coins they pump for a long-term, they are not worth investing in for a long time because they only do what they do for their own personal interest which is profit and not for the future of the project itself or the utility, so I invest in them, quickly sell off to make the little gain I can have when the pumping starts manifesting, although if the means of pump is coming through their news and verbal promotion, I still have to watch carefully and be sure such pump method will have any effect on the price.

Has their even ever been any predictions that has been accurate, I usually don’t believe much in all these guess work because I was not there with them to really ascertain that the real analysis were conducted using the tools available to them.

So just like you advice, which is what I strictly do, I do my own proper research and do not do was my own personal technical and fundamental analysis does not permit me to do. All these predictions by these guys are methods they all use in getting money from investors because in the end, they are still the ones behind some of this pump and dump coins.