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https://mcafeemagic.com

Would you trust this man with your dust?

It looks like it consolidates multiple exchanges into one interface.

You go first.

I don't trust any of the words this guy speak. Full of BS. Seems like age made him mad :-P
So, obviously I am not going to risk my dust there.

Cheers :-)

Looks like it has already crashed - I'm just getting time out errors. Great launch. Exactly the kind of workmanship I would expect from McAfee. ::)

From what I've read, you have to purchase a membership to be allowed to open an account, and then you have to purchase his own ERC-20 token to pay for your transactions to be processed, and then you presumably have to pay the transaction fee of the exchanges you are actually trading on. I wouldn't be surprised if he also wants to collect your personal data or if their security was terrible. Perhaps they will be using their hilariously inept Bitfi wallet as cold storage. ::)

Yep. It's been 2 hours now and the website still seems down. Not the best look for a new site, eh?

I don't really get the point of this exchange at all. While having a middleman broker between you and the exchange might protect yourself against some privacy concerns on the exchange's end, you're essentially trusting McAfee and his company to not collect and use your information, and, there is also added counterparty risk.

It seems like that he's planning on adding debit cards as a payment method as well in the near future. I'm not sure entirely how the regulations in the US is going to allow him to do that without strict KYC.

An exchange platform by an extremely controversial person and at the same time is being pursued by the government hence could be freezed and shutdown any time? Yea.. that would no doubt surely end up really really well for the users..  /s

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EDIT: is this actually owned by McAfee? I mean, look at the registration page:

https://i.imgur.com/I6QZgP6.png

If this wasn't affiliated with McAfee I would automatically think that this site is a scam. It looks like something I would make in my first week of developing websites.

I've been waiting for the site to open for more than 10 minutes, but the site does not open... for a guy who is considered a good programmer, and creates a website that takes a lot of time to open. McAfee definitely needs to start taking it all seriously. It is not possible that even in the area where he has always been admired he will disappoint. Is fact that in the last years his behavior has always been bad, but I did not expect him to disappoint in the area where he was always admired

I doubt he has an actual hand in anything any more. He probably gets some asshole calling him up in a stupor and talking him into whatever springs to mind. When he comes round in the morning if there's some money in his wallet he goes tweeting.

Can anyone point to anything successful he's seen through to market directly created by him in recent decades? I'm coming up short myself.

Even if he initiated this it's probably been put together by some street kid he bought in the Bahamas and keeps chained up in the bilge.

Same thoughts. The dude that made the website probably just said that McAfee takes a cut on the website and he automatically accepts because munnyz. Most likely the same thing happened when the Apollo coin took up McAfee as their chairman.

Zero, as far as I know. The dude is just making a living off his name just because his name is quite famous in the technology industry in general. Dude be pumping shitcoins on Twitter.

This man is just a clown who has much impression on himself, maybe narcist. Also the reason why this man is clown is how he tries to make himself popular, claiming various reasons of he knows who is satoshi, he will unveil him if he won't tell himself to public that he is real satoshi and etc.
Why does he includes bitcoin in his trading platform if he is bad minded on satoshi? MacAtroll

lol, this looks like a straight up email harvesting scam.

the site says it is "powered by ARB" (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/arbitrage/). i'm guessing mcafee owns a shitload of these tokens. :D

there's no trading engine apparently. so the idea is basically just to arb between 8 exchanges?

Site down.

If anyone here has any doubt that this is his website, judging from the poor UI I see above, I invite you to download his game app called Bitcoin  (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BossDigitalMedia.QuizApp)Play. The app's amateur design, grammatical errors and clunky interface tells you all you need to know about his level of coding (or his judgment of which minion is good enough to do his coding).

And yes, I was idiot enough to play it (it's a Who Wants to be a millionaire format app) to kill time. I actually collected something like 15k satoshi (5 days or something) before he suddenly killed the app, took away everyone's satoshi (including mine) saying there wasn't enough revenue.

Yup. My bad for wasting my time.

So yes. He's out of ideas and trying to take more dust.

Sounds like a great platform from a great man. Unfortunately I don't have the dust to actually try the exchange for myself--oh and look the exchange is still down from here! But on a serious note, the fee structure is terrible, and the terms a trader must comply to before using the platform is really tedious and hilarious at the same time. I don't think anyone in their sane minds would actually want to use this, nor have the dignity to even try it at the least.

I don't know. For the same person who despises his own antivirus software (which he once owned), I see this platform going along the same route his antivirus traverse, and he will hate every being of this exchange soon.

The website is down for me too, but even it goes online again I'll stay away, I don't consider him trustworthy enough to run anything more than an altcoin bounty campaign...

He doesn't own shit about this "trading platform"; remember the Bitfi """hardware wallet"""? He's just getting paid to promote it, just like he loves to do with other bad projects and shitcoins. If you have a few BTC spared, you can get him to say whatever you want. Don't trust this just like you wouldn't trust any other random/shady exchange.

Its dead already.

http://i66.tinypic.com/23sjebq.png

It's mind boggling how this con man still thinks people have enough confidence in him to follow his recommendations and whatnot. Anyone using this service and lose coins in the process has no right to complain about it.

It's people like him who put a bad name to crypto. This is his next attempt to avoid becoming broke so he can continue afford to pay his dealer. Sniffing grams of pure coke a day is an expensive addiction...

because of that:


Source: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1138905310289170432

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now I can enter the site, and I am very shocked by what I see, is a very ugly site that looks like it was made by an amateur

All the projects he's associated with are of incredibly low quality so that's not a surprise actually. It's almost a meme how each platform he shills is worse than the last! Check out the app he recently endorsed, "Bitcoin Play." (https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1125089297290465281)

Spoiler: it's already been taken down. ;)

What game he's playing now? Seems like he's actively promoting 'his' exchange on Twitter.

Can't believe someone like him was an influential figure (read: pump & dump maestro) in the past.

Sounds like its already confirmed it his own exchange. He'd been shilling most of the projects that end up without value and this McAfeeMagic might just be used to add those tokens he shills.  We'll see how that turns out. Its just not really pro to name an exchange that way, whoever did this didn't get any advise from a single trader but only believe the name of the dick eater.

When his prediction is as good as his platform it isnt worth the effort. https://bircoin.top

A non-serious website is just actually showing on what is McCafee. Newbie designed trading platform and i cant even believe that he do own that shit.

He did this with the Bitfi wallet too. Promoted it all over Twitter, Facebook, etc., as "his" unhackable wallet, personally challenged hackers to attack it, said he was using it for all his coins, testimonials from him on the website, the full works. Seems like he has since moved on, and who ever has been left in charge of Bitfi, likely trying to recuperate some of the losses, is now trying to distance themselves from him as much as possible. Their FAQ even says the whole thing was just a media lie, which is laughable when the tweets from McAfee still exist and can be read by anyone.

No doubt this will end the same way. If there are any serious people behind this exchange, they will migrate it to a new name and a new URL when it inevitably fails because no one with any sense will touch anything with McAfee's name on it.

Not to mention that the government might pursue after platforms/companies that McAfee is affiliated with, if ever he gets caught. I checked the Apollo project's team page, and McAfee isn't in it, even though McAfee is supposed to be their chairman. It's the right move though, if they don't want the government on their asses.

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1138948603232305153

According to him the site has been hacked, Lol.

But I don't know if this is true or not, we all know how good John is for shilling and hyping anything. So I doubt his hack scenario. Anyways, I'm with the community here, he is not to be trusted because his personality is shady as f**k.

Haha, you expect nothing and he manages to fall short. Amazing.

Since it's finally now up and running, I've had a bit of a poke about. Even ignoring the '90s Geocities template feel to it and the spelling and grammar mistakes throughout, it looks horrendous. The fee is $100 a year for a basic account, which also charges $1 PER TRADE, or $1,000 a year for an "All Inclusive" account to let you make "free" trades. Bear in mind that all it is doing is collecting APIs from various exchanges in to one place, so on top of that, you will still be paying the individual exchange's trading fees. You are essentially paying $1,000 a year to save you from having to open two or three windows at a time.

The website is clearly terribly made, It was done with a minimum effort with clearly no front end developer. And is this meant to be something similar to Coinigy? Honestly, I don't blame him as much as I blame the people who trust him... He's been advertising/tweeting about services and coins since long and it always ends up badly for everyone but him so I don't understand why people are still listening to anything he says because he clearly only cares about his own benefit.

Even back-end developer or beginner can do better by grab MIT-licensed web template.

Their website also missing few important pages such as About, Contact Us and Legal, mobile support isn't exist. I have serious doubt about security of their websites/server

What a revolutionary platform he do have here. (Sarcasm inserted). $1000/year or simply  $2.7 daily for 365 days

Why would someone need to pay it up? Opening windows one at a time not costing too much effort.
Poorly designed site without having some realistic use is pure garbage.

That's a good point actually, which I missed on my brief poke about their website.

I dug a bit deeper and made an account using a burner email, and as you say, there is a complete lack of any legal policies or technical details whatsoever. You can deposit Ethereum, which you need to to pay for one of their memberships, but if you click on the withdraw option, it gives you a pop up box that just says "Coming Soon". I tried to use their "Practice" page, but every order I made other than market orders just sat there unfulfilled, regardless of price, volume, movement, etc. The "Shadow Portal" is met with the same "Coming Soon" pop up. No details about how they store any funds you deposit, your personal details, anything.

Honestly, seems like a half finished project made by a bunch of brand new developers.

you mean mccafee is not a serious person and all of his statements are only a joke ? hmmmm . i think he did mean it  .

mccafee is a wealthy man and he can just buy a site or hire a developer to create his own website with a profesional look  and i dont think that he will waste his own time creating a website with a bad design  .

But the evidence is sat on your face and farting on it - he came up with a silly, cruddy product. Not that he had anything to do with it other than adding his name.

If I were him I'd at least attempt to knuckle down to come up with at least one or two viable contributions to give myself some ongoing mileage but he's a near 74 yr old on obscure designer drugs 24/7. He won't care about anything any more.

Click here, and look at some of the pre-made website templates you can just buy off the shelf and plug your own text in to: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=website+template&iax=images&ia=images
Now go to https://mcafeemagic.com/ and tell me how that looks in comparison.

He didn't even need to hire a developer, he could have bought a site that looks a thousand times better. Having made an account to test it out, the trading interface is similarly ugly and clunky, all the elements just thrown together in any old way. The design isn't just bad, it's awful. But honestly, I would completely overlook the bad design if the product underneath it was worthwhile, but it isn't. I wouldn't even be using this site if it was free - it certainly is not worth $1,000 a year.

I think the main problem with people "trusting" him is that we're dealing with a continuous wave of new users who may have heard about him years ago and think he's a guru or something. That's also why there doesn't seem to be an end to all the noobs asking whether or not cloud mining is the right investment for them.

In both cases it concerns fraudsters, but hey, he's doing what he does the best and we can only continue to warn people about his shady practices.

I'll pass this one but will bookmark it and see how will turn out, we have so many exchanges in the market, many of them has loopholes and manipulating their market and no transparency, I would like to first see how users will react to their security, if it is good then people will trust this exchange even if the owner has issues on his character  :D

Problem is that the type of person who believes he's somewhat credible is an inexperienced nincompoop who'll run towards it until they get ravaged. No one with any experience will go anywhere near it.

I don't believe he's a thief but he certainly is a scatterbrained slipshod slacker with low to no standards and I can imagine this is going to have some gaping holes that turn up somewhere soon.

Honestly, with a design and font that is this ugly -- i think most people wouldn't even care how good the product behind it is/was.

The only thing i can see this being useful for is for "shady" individuals, who don't want to pass KYC on any of the 8 exchanges, and use "Magic macafee" to get around that?
Although i kind of doubt that is possible, or a good longterm business model. (I assume they'll get their accounts disabled rather quickly?. but if not, for what would this exchange realistically be used?

I don't get it. Arbitraging? Really?

Not possible. You still have to have your own personal account in each exchange you wish to access via mcafeemagic. You still have to go through each exchange's KYC procedures, and load up each exchange with however much bitcoin (or altcoin) you wish to use. All mcafeemagic does is collect APIs and allow you to use all your accounts from one (ugly) interface, and charge you $1,000 a year for the privilege.

If he's serious on everything then that site wont really be looking as horrible as that.Just to ask,are you gonna believe on what he's doing and into all sorts of things that he do proclaim? All of the community will surely oppose on that.  ;D

Launching a service that most of the features doesnt work? And no matter what web pages you go, the site is horrible regarding to its UI.
Never been surprise from any work he's involve with, look bitfi, from the site to its HW design, seems he doesn't want a good looking service tho.

I wouldn't trust McAfee on something that regards cryptocurrency. It isn't because of his cunning and  endless FUDS on Bitcoin it's simply because I know he isn't going to succeed on this. The simple reason being that the best literary critics are people who failed woefully at becoming authors. McAfee is best as crypto critic, and not someone that can help advance it.

He isn't though, because he lacks the impartiality to honestly critique a project. His view on any given project (be that an ICO, wallet, exchange, service, whatever) is directly proportional to how much that project is willing to pay him or how much money he can make out of it.

This current project looks like it took a couple of guys less than a week to build. If he can lure in a few subscribers, he'll make a profit. That's good enough for him.

MAN.. this thread is making me curious if McAfee ever gets on here and what his alias is.
I must admit, he has never ripped me off, I honestly think he is hysterically funny.
I DONT wanna hang out with him or invest in his stuff. but that scoobie doo font on McAfee Magic really does it for me.

What a ugly looking UI, I hope someone hacks this one hard and vandalized it, LOL, it will be epic. And from the website itself.


LMAO, months? it looks like this is just created in days and no testing has been done. I guess John McAfee just wanted the 'doe' and will be completely hands-offs on this project. Or probably even he doesn't check that website for all we know.  ;D

I do like those that are positive in bitcoin and that is why I am a fan of McAfee and among his followers on Twitter! He has said many things in the past that forms my investments decisions and I am not regretting those decisions I took then. Some of his predictions were actually the major reasons why bitcoin and other alternatives cryptocurrencies went bullish in 2017. I think if this trading platform is in place many are going to patronise it as it seems he has large followers on Twitter.

Damn, those colors & that font :-/
Please tell me this is a joke or some sort of honeypot to harvest user information.

This can't actually be affiliated with McAffee, right?

McAfee Magic? And nobody mentioned MagicalTux? We all know how this is going to end.

Btw, since somebody has posted a link from his tweeter account, has he gone completely mad?

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1141151110859821056

The resemblance is eerie.

The thing I don't get about people who are dominated by one characteristic, raging paranoia in his case, is why they don't just occasionally get bored of it or question it when it's clear everyone else on the planet is not that way. He's kept it up 24/7 for many, many years now. Even if you're fucked in the head you should retain a little bit of objectivity somewhere.

It's a paid membership it's not for me, it's for whales who trade and exchange a lot, in my opinion this is much better because the guy still has a reputation when it comes to launching his product, his anti virus is his recommendation, but I would love to see more reviews from traders who actually used this.

Yeah, but what really counts, i.e. his reputation in the cryptocurrency world, well, it's less than stellar. I follow him a bit for entertainment but if I were to send him any money it would be more akin to paying for a circus ticket than expecting a viable product.

No self respecting "whale" or large investor is ever going to touch a platform which looks so childish and unprofessional.

He doesn't. No one with any sense listens to a word McAfee says. The only people following him are newbies chasing "get rich quick" schemes and falling for his scams.

It's not his. He was kicked out of the McAfee company in 1994. Everything since then has nothing to do with him.

Ahh yes, the guy who gunned down his neighbour , because he was "mean" to his dogs, and sold substantial amounts of narcotics (bath salts) from his home garage surely has a reputation when it comes to cryptography.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/11/murder-suspect-john-mcafee-bath-salts-experiments
https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder-updated-5959812

DUI : http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/john-mcafee-jokes-dui-gun-arrest-tennessee-article-1.2318479

You must be full-blown crazy if you've managed to amass any sort of wealth, and to then hand it over to this guy.

I find this one a good read, and quite comical; https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/8utitu/john_mcafee_this_might_be_the_craziest_bath_salt/

I feel you bro where those colors are really unpleasant on the eyes.This might really be a joke but
I'm sure that McAffee is affiliated with this and as long it can generates money for him,he doesn't care
on what people do look unto him.Its none of our business.

I am giving it a try- with something I can afford to lose. Reputation of Mcafee? Taken with a pinch of salt. He has always been very critical of centralized exchanges, strong campaign against hitbtc..Let see how this goes.Hackers are likely to make a run for this

John McAfee will promote any shit as long as he gets paid for it. His reputation is already destroyed with all of the scandals and now he is running for President so he needs more media attention and money to fund his campaign.  ::)

I registered with a throwaway account and what I have seen is not good at all. This is not the kind of professional platform that I am used to, so I will not even transfer 1 Satoshi to that site.  ::)

Warning : Use this at your own risk.  >:(

Watch Shutter Island. The reason he is like that is literally because he can't do that.
Some people can't use their legs because they are gone.
Some people are blind because that part of the brain doesn't work.
I wager some people are crazy because the stability mechanism doesn't work.

Using a good ol' theme: https://mcafeemagic.com/assets/css/essentials.css

I thought the design looked familiar. Can build a custom trading platform, but can't create a custom design?

TBH, the guy has a new project almost monthly, and then they fall off the beaten path. Not sure what to think anymore.

TBH, I may be wrong, but it's probably a situation where the guys at https://arbitraging.co/ sent an email to the McAfee team saying they would run/setup everything, give him 50% and just wanted his name. I wouldn't touch this.

Why didn't they put any effort into making mcafee's site more appealing? It's almost as if they're targeting the most gullible people to scam as opposed to offering a legitimate service ::)

Well, they probably wanted to get the service out ASAP w/ a MVP, and didn't consider the design to be THAT important.

A lot of times, when these shops make spin-off services like this, a lot of the care goes out the window.

Their own website looks OK, though. They should have known better if they cared to be taken seriously. (but then they'd stay away from McAfee himself, too)

Some things to add.

Not only has he zero connections other than the name with the current antivirus but also almost all of his other ventures ended as bad as they could, his net worth dropped from over a hundred million to some 2-4 according to Forbes, all his attempts after the 08 crisis never even materialized, he is all talk.

And right now the only anti"virus" he would be able to recommend would be a HPV shot.



It's 100% the case.
The guy has admitted he has shilled for various projects for money already, he is simply selling his name for any crap project as long as he gets paid for.

Everything for the sake of money without already minding on his reputation.His image here on crypto market is just like a BIG Troll for us not to believe on where all the things he do tied up shouldnt really be taken seriously and its just a pity thing that newbies without having much knowledge of this fool troll history will really lost up some investment.