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^ I'd forgotten about this self-imposed challenge  ;D

We know that he backtracked but I just want to remind everyone that even crypto personalities can't predict the market and they get it wrong most of the time. Do not fall for their "expert" opinions. Some of them are paid reviews/opinions anyway.

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If you're wondering what he did in the past, check this:

By now, I hope users already see that McAfee is not a reputable personality in crypto, at all angles. I think I even promoted one of the projects here endorsed by McAfee. I had high regards on him but came to learn that he had so many stunts in crypto just to get attention from the community. We have had enough of these self proclaimed experts.

A historical meme that was made.

I think he admitted that it won't happen and it's all for the hype.

That is funny. I agree with the OP that this should a lesson that we should not always follow and believe the expert's prediction or opinion. Any reactions of this from him these days?

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Source: https://me.me/i/me-waiting-on-john-mcafees-bet-to-eat-his-own-19994670

Hoping that it is not a hoax.

MCAfee was drove away by the rose in the price of bitcoin during that period and if a poll was held at that moment asking the same question, I believe a lot of people will say yes. Nobody could have thought a coin that worth less than $50 in 2011 could have jumped so high within a few months and reach almost 20k in 2017. Part of the reason we all keep saying it is really hard to predict the price at any point

He was the Hypeman and the Shitcoin Pump of The Year. We all know he isn't going to do what he promised and it was all done for the hype and money he was getting at the time. I'll never forget how much he helped with the pump & dump of the markets at the time - or, in other words, with making the poor even poorer.

If this is how well he delivers his promises, then I'd imagine how well he would if he became the President. :D

Yeah, he won’t be eating his dick, he is a dick though. Isn’t he part of some shitcoin or token drop happening imminently? He’s a bit of a druggie loser now, rich yes but a bit of a moron.

That is so funny, John McAfee is so confident with his prediction, it means that even those big people or very familiar people cannot predict the accurate price of the bitcoin in the next few years, days or even in a minute, bitcoins volatility makes it so good and so thrilling for me, it makes the cryptocurrency good for trading and investing. So there wiuld be no person who can predict the price of the bitcoij because if ther would be a person that can guess or predict the price of the bitcoin, he will be so rich and earn more money.
That's true, even those experts cannot say the accurate price of the bitcoin for the next days. So if you see some posts on twitter about predictions, do not believe them easily.

If I'm not mistaken, he was voted as crypto influencer of the year, forgot what year it is, either 2018 or 2019, (if my memory serves me right). But he then changes his tune, by it's too late, people really know what kind of personality John is and his career his over as far as being this so called influencer.


I'm sure he won't win if he ever decides to run again for the US Presidency.

McAfee was the guy who commercialized Antivirus with the brand names after himself. He must have been a successful businessman at one time to have achieved that success in technical implementation as well as in clinching enterprise deals. At one point, most laptops used to come pre-installed with McAfee. Though everyone felt that it made your system "slow". People used to uninstall and use all kind of freeware like Avast, Avira and what not. I remember that there used to be almost a competition between college kids that whose antivirus can identify more malware.

He lost a lot of his investments in the 2008 crash and seems like he never recovered from the shock. At 70+, he has been one of the more polarizing and outrageous figures in crypto and later started shilling shamelessly for all kind of things if the price was right. Pretty sure that the guy has lost all his credibility. He banks on making outrageous claims about "not paying taxes" and getting into litigation. Its doubtful he actually does any of these so called acts of defiance.

Well, we all know John McAfee is of the investors who truly believe is bitcoin, since he is expecting high price prices all the time. However, according to what we learned from the market, everything is possible when you are talking about bitcoin price. Reaching 500K is maybe not even the final target. I remember years ago people were saying bitcoin real price is 1 usd when people like McAfee were expecting to see much higher prices.

Yet he called biitcoin a "true shitcoin" (Old, clunky, no security, no smart contracts, no DAPs) (https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1222389224902668288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) when he realized that his prediction won't materialize and he's about to lose his bet (eat his d*ck). Now that's a true "believer".

He's a paid shitcoin shill.

Initially I also had seen him one of the experts and believed him. But over the period of time realized that one needs to be logical as well and not to say anything because as you become known celebrity or personality the onus increases because people starts to look up to you. He failed in those terms.

That statement by John Mcafee was made out if confidence in the fact that bitcoin was moving fast like wildfire withut the interference of government and other financial regulatory agencies globally. I understand that it may be an extreme self inflicted challenge but it only goes to show his confidence in the technology and all it brings. But it ain't all that easy as it sounds, normal market forces will playout in the long run that will alter it.

He is not an expert for me.  ;D
He's just a guy who is pretending to know it all but in fact he just want to make a hype to profit from it.
There may be a fact that he really bought bitcoin and he want fast earnings just like others.

So, he preferred using his own personality which is known to make it happen.
But it did not.
Time to stretch that back and reach for his dick.
I bet he cannot even touch the tip of it even with his tongue stretched out.  ;D

Mcafee ia a pure shill in crypto space. He has been affiliated with some projects as well and if I can remember correctly, last year he probably had some sorts of shilling for some privacy coins as well. This proves how much good his predictions are. Either way, I don't think he will be remembered his promise after this year.

We know crypto market always unpredictable .He just made a challenge and its almost gone to fail to hit .However if it would happen it could be a great historical post .We always hope a new level of crypto .

Well as for me , he is just someone who speculate about price of bitcoin just as any other thread or person. I don't hold to any person's prediction whether it be accurate or if it is not. The price isn't certain to happen as predicted and all people know, so it could just be for attention .

I thought he backed off from his claim few months ago and started to say something like  that bitcoin is the shit coin. Was comparing it with MSN email, once popular a popular email and now no one uses it and slowly changed to outlook. He says bitcoin is the MSN which will no longer be used by people and instead the future of the crypto currencies are the altcoin. He was probably launching his own altcoin (not sure about this).

I have a great option to pump BTC hard.
If Macafee really do that job as he promised then bitcoin can pump a huge and new hype will be created.

That's just for fun actually.I just pm her in Twitter about this dare.

I do not hope that in three years the price of bitcoin can rise to $ 500,000. We have been convinced more than once that the predictions of celebrities about the price of cryptocurrencies are generally far from reality. I think that over $ 50,000 the price of bitcoin is unlikely to rise. However, no one can say anything for sure yet.

All just to gain attention and it was all hype. We cannot blame him as we came across so many similar predictions when Bitcoin was at its peak and we still have users posting random stuff like Bitcoin will reach $100k by 2021 and all, but being a public figure the kind of statement he made was unnecessary which attracted lot of critisism towards him.

Historical as it seems but these people were just playing around with the mind of people, they are exaggerating such thing just to make an impact and we need to understand that these people are not moving carelessly.
What I think that these people made them to say this is because of what the bitcoin is doing on the past year, who could have thought that this coin would reach a thousand dollars in value? I mean with those year of poor internet literacy people are in doubt in moving information above their head. But to be honest, I want him to see on national tv eating his uh uh ;D

We know how this market works, ever wonder if he didn't say this words? it is kinda working that time, look relatively on the chart after he said this, it made an effect though we can't see it directly. We know this guy, we know how hard he's trying to manipulate the market, but imagine if people believed on John we could have seen higher price of bitcoin than to its ath. He just made a historical meme, give him a clap for this one. If I were him I will just delete it, did he already ?

Do you mean his GHOST coin (https://news.bitcoin.com/john-mcafee-announces-privacy-coin-airdrop-today/) and this Freedom coin (https://www.coindesk.com/john-mcafee-says-he-is-launching-his-own-freedom-cryptocurrency)? the dude will say anything just to hype anything that will benefit him.

There's no analysis, there's no reason, he just thinks so there's been a lot of tweets before, many celebrities have tweets or statements that have no basis, they do it for their own benefit, McAfee's name is linked to a few crypto projects. Most of those ICOs did not succeed.
Special Note: If you invest after checking and sorting out any kind of rumors, even if you lose later, there will be a logical reason that my analysis was wrong.

$500k in 3 years will be a fantastic price of bitcoin which can be reached, and many people will celebrate that moment by selling all of their bitcoin to make a lot of money. They will wait for more to buy bitcoin because after the price touch the highest price, the price will go down, and sometimes, the price will be down so hard before the price can back to the stable price for a moment. Maybe the price will fluctuate and will up and down too often, which can make us confuse to determine the time to buy and sell bitcoin.

You don't have to follow what other people say because they don't know what will happen in the next 3 years. You should analyze yourself, but you can use their analysis of your analysis so that you can get more information about the market.

Of course I always remember what John McAfee predicted, very small possibility that Bitcoin will reach $ 500k in 3 years. Please don't
take too seriously all the words that John McAfee said. Because a lot of promises have been broken by John McAfee. Therefore he got
the nickname clown. Just think of it as John McAfee as an entertainer, because whatever John McAfee says is often a sensation. Sometimes
I just remember a lot of newbies who suffer losses investment in shitcoins promoted by John McAfee.

Have he responded on your tweet?lol

Anyway Bitcoin  is much good currency to expect so let us not  push things,the problem is we keep seeking for the Pump while the truth is we don't even Buy and use to circulate?

so whats the logic?why not  instead of asking when Bitcoin price will grow is let us start accumulating Bitcoin and use every time we have  a chance?

Mcafee crazy guy :D

You almost guessed it.

Just a bit differance with your guess like 491.000 dollars but ok its acceptable now do your thing :D

McAfeee is a weird guy with changing views. But the fact itself is quite sad. I mean, that it was so realistic 3 years ago that Bitcoin would cost $500k that a popular person was so sure that he said such a thing. And here we are, three years later, with Bitcoin still never making it past ATH or even getting close. It does currently cost almost 4 times more than it did in July 2017, though, so it's not that bad. When I think about Bitcoin costing $20k, I don't realize it was such a long time ago. Bitcoin really has been struggling for too long this time. But maybe it's not meant to be worth dozens of thousands of dollars, and it might even be okay if we think of Bitcoin's future as money.

It is already said that he backed out from it.

It is funny but I think that is kind of a dick move right there. Let's say he's right and this happened, he would be sticking his head into his social media account saying to our faces he knew it. Still, hoping he eat himself since he's a dick.

The legendary John McAfee prediction isn't relevant for a long time.I forgot that he made that prediction on July 17.Anyway,he is a liar and he will never eat his D. ;D
You are wrong about John McAfee being a "crypto personality". He is just a weird millionaire and made shit ton of money out for his crappy anti-virus program.Most of his business projects after that usually failed.
I think that he was more into the real estate business recently,plus he was pitching his new shitcoin,while dissing Bitcoin. >:(

He was high or drunk when he wrote that and it went viral. He probably decided to ride it as people were quoting and praising him for this bold prediction but then had to backtrack so instead of saying he was wrong,he chose the "angry way out" and attacked bitcoiners. Bitcoin is shit according to him, altcoins are better and it was all a lie to pump bitcoin.
Summary? McAfee is an untrustworthy liar, a shitcoin pumper, a celebrity for hire. If he ever had any reputation in the Internet, it's gone now.

I suppose no one wants to see it ;D Anyway, later McAfee said that he made all these mad promises and predictions for Bitcoin promotion.

Yups  it was  backtracked already  last year i  believe or early this year when McAfee learn that it is impossible to happen ,and i'm sure we are used with that person who's saying things mostly for stupidity.

Nope Your wrong,Majority of us here wanted to see that happening so that Person will learn His mistakes talking and talking things that he doesn't really understand.
He's Not crazy instead he is clown like CSW and never learn His mistakes.

In his case are not really mistakes, they're verified ways to attract attention on himself.
This kind of attention helped him earn quite a lot of money from small projects seeking advertising.
Don't underestimate this guy, he's an experienced salesman.

Considering how much money he got paid from shilling shitcoins, he's up there with other "influencers". Heck, I even saw some projects here with "McAffee supports" in their signature  ;D

Classic isn't it? Much like the other coin developers we see today who loved Bitcoin but.......they want to make money so they started recycling old issues.

This.

This is a good time to highlight this statement by McAffee. I have always been saying it myself that we should never follow any signals from anybody.
We should always research by ourselves and make the speculation rather than following others.
This way even if our speculation is wrong, we would be the one to blame and this will also give us an experience to learn from.
Bitcoin predictions are just guesses and some gets lucky at it while the others suffer the loss.
So why to follow other's predictions when you can make one yourself.

regardless of what mcafee said at the time. his words about crypto are proven.

I think he's a smart person and everything he said must be based on analysis. and if there are currently some statements that are not appropriate or not proven. all that happened because of some unexpected factors like pandemic and others. if this year there were no pandemic problems, I think his predictions would come true. You know Havling bitcoin can be one of the reasons.

It is most likely these two personalities will eat their dick now if they are serious with their statement (but probably not)... :D

It was that year 2017 the market surge to the highest peak and most of us think that it continues to move higher as it could be their basis of being hyped and think $500k is achievable. And I was thinking that also but I wasn't that very speculative and thinking much as it is out from the real possible case scenario. We can possibly be wrong and that is what it happens to both of them.

Well that was a funny statement made ever in crypto industry, one thing we need to understand is hype and overconfidence will always lead to downfall.

McAfee would have realized his mistake and he will never come again with such statements again  ;D to me it was like a gold digger prediction, 500k is way too much for now let's hope for the best and wait for our day.

This promotion of bitcoin can be a risky thing for John Mcafee, his faith and loyalty towards bitcoin is extremely strong and maybe he's also paid by some organizations.

For me, it is really hard to predict the price of bitcoin in the upcoming years due to its volatility in the market.

There are a lot of factors that can affect the price of bitcoin such as the those issues related to oil, politics, and etc. In this year 2020, for me, based on my observation, bitcoin didn't really have a huge increase in its price instead it has a stable price in $9000+ last month. I don't think that this is a good signal for us to have transactions because there is no positive movement in the price of bitcoin. Maybe, John Mcafee will probably regret his tweet because $9k is far different from $500k.

Nobody can't predict the price of bitcoin and when it will pump or dump.There are countless of Bitcoin expert and they predict bitcoin will be 20K$ or 1m $ in 2019,2020 etc..But we know how the prediction turned out.And another man who wants to be in all the attentions of Crypto is none other than McAffee.He will say anything to be in the headline.When I first entered in crypto like in 2017-18,there was a tremendous hype of McAfees prediction.Now if he says anything,I never believe.

And for newbie traders please don't join in any trading group or believe any prediction,just DYOR.Btw McAfees promise is a joke like his prediction

I was going to say the same thing but I'm kind of late LOL  :D.

Eh, no. He's not going to do it. He's just an all talk guy you would see around the internet specially in social media platforms.

Quoting the previous comment for you to see the source:

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Tell you what, those predictions thing they carried out are just nothing. Yeah, we can speculate, and all but it won't matter at the end of the day. Bitcoin's nature is what it makes unforseeable the same way why it became a very interesting thing for most specially last 2017.

We all know that he is just an all talk,

This prediction might be because of their high expectation because of the sudden increase in the price of bitcoin where the highest price was reached. He expected too much that stated the impossible prediction just to become the topic in every conversation in soc. media.

Bon Appetit, Mr. McAfee! It´s actually just as much of an uneducated guess as many others, he just made the mistake to put his dick in the equation. He really should get rid of that habit! Did he already responded to the tweets deadline?

He said this only to get fame and people at that time trusted him too much.
With the passage of time, his predictions got wrong and no one pay attention to his words now. Those who are still following him are just wasting their time.

In one side, it might a reasonable prediction when we see the price movement at 2017 ago when bitcoin price touched an all time high, I don't at that time I was someone who believe that prediction.

But now, after now his behavior and his activity I might be a someone who hated him in all his word. Telling bitcoin is shitcoin before he reveals that bitcoin will have a high price has pointed out that he just someone who do everything with the ultimate goal is money.

John McAfee? Well, personally I don't consider that he is an expert. We all know what kind of characteristics he has. He always wants to be famous and he always wants what he said always been heard and also followed by the people in the crypto world. So many booming words or statements from him in this world so far and I think this makes him so proud of it. About this kind of prediction, from what I read, I also don't believe that BTC can reach $500k in 3 years, it is like dreaming and his challenge is really high. Well, don't think too much of him.

Or his just to arrogant that he thinks if he says something to the internet everyone will follow him. What he did is just embarrassed himself to the whole world.
Also a correction he's not an expert in Crypto analysis because spouting nonsense to public without any kind of logic is just full of bull.

McAfee is known with that 1M btc price challenge for this year but now he had multiple alibis and other words that do redirect the attention of the public and would completely forget on what he had said back in the past.

Of course, no experts nor popular personalities would have precise predictions towards price no matter how well known they are and known in traditional investment and stuffs, it doesnt change up the fact that everything can happen on least expectation.

He might just been dragged in the hype on that time and tell to the public that the price might shoot up for this year but look at on where we know.? We didnt even break the previous ATH.

There are more celebrities who have been brand ambassador to different projects. Some has termed to be successful, upon the same those people's names were much used on different projects. Some are even paid, one such person is McAfee. He made good earning out of the cryptocurrencies, and the same made him reveal such a statement. Crypto market isn't perfect as the stock market. So even the experts predictions go away from the reality.

I admitted that McAfee is a smart guy who can attract many attention people to read what he says. Although he doesn't know if bitcoin will increase to his prediction price, he still makes the prediction. I guess that he will not admit that he said that, and if the time comes, he will delete his tweet from his page. This year will be the final year for him to see if his prediction will become true or not, and we will see what he will do if his prediction does not happen.

I think no one take McAfee very seriously anymore in this space, everyone who has been in this space since 2017 should have had enough of shilling and unrealistic predictions. He's known for making baseless predictions such as this, no doubt there's a huge potential waiting for bitcoin and it is a sure fact that it will grow in price but no one can actually predict it's price as it is being driven by law of demand and other factors too

McAfee's prediction to me is not a big deal from the start. I'm not even taking it seriously. Just can't believe there are really people who expect that $500,000 BTC in 3 yrs. I mean, I admire the optimism but I always stick to the most realistic thing to happen. Obviously, no one can predict.

On the bright side, Bitcoin got real attention that year because of McAfee's troll, at least. It's Bitcoin after all so even how risky it is, it's worth putting a shot here. I just don't like that he involved in some ICO projects as a supposed advisor that creates hypes at those investors. Those projects aren't even active in development today.

Do you think that he will do it like for real and in national television ??  :D :D

At that time, I'm still not into crypto space but when I'm learning I've heard of this tweet and I say "WTF" and didn't believe on what he said. If I'm not mistaken, he said already that he will pass to what he said 3 years ago that he will not do what he said :D. Fooking stupid person. There was a time where he was so popular that all of the coin he endorsed pump in an instant but that popularity goes down gradually as he fails to his prediction. Well at least he made some money out of the investors at that time :D>

I  think he did it on purpose just to be the person on the main light, McAfee loves attention and that stunt sure gives him one of the main focus during those times.  And he has no intention to fulfill it as proven after the due came to gather another kind of exposure and be the talks of the town. He sure is one of those who does not care about his reputation as long as he get the attention and be the talk of the town.

He's just trying to hype bitcoin.
I bet this guy invested a lot.
He won't do such a thing without his own reasons.
But he went too far. I don't know if he really made a good market for bitcoin or he just made it worse.
Well, he is not really that popular. He just thinks so.  ;D

Well we could agree that we all hope that it would really happen back then and I think he just burst it out because of the hype that is going on back in those days.
If the hype didn't really stop or the price didn't crash down there could be a possibility that his prediction could reach it but he didn't anticipated the crash and took the price jump for granted.

Did John McAfee eat his dick? Lol, if his prediction was true, then it would be a big opportunity for all the people who are using bitcoin. We would earn a lot of money once it happened but sadly it doesn't happen, it means that even those people with a big personality cannot predict the price of the bitcoin. No one knows what will be the price of every cryptocurrency in the future. So you shouldn't rely on their prediction for you investment.

What a bold statement by guys like him. haha

Actually, we already saw Bitcoin reaching $10k or even $15k in the Middle year of 2018 BUT that was then and I guess if ever Bitcoin had another surge in value, it would at least not be multiplied by x100. We just know that Bitcoin's value will still fluctuate but no idea whatsoever in reaching $500k.

What ever the reason of that man that he think it will turn bitcoin to $500k for sure 100 percent it will happen even in the future.
So what he gonna do now as he promised I hope it he will show us 😹.

The highest price of the bitcoin is $20,000 and that is happen 2017 but sadly it will  continue down and Im happy when 2020 arrived we saw now the good value of the bitcoin and that is increasing and hoping it will ,hut again for the second time around the ATH.

McAfee became the laughing stock in crypto a long time ago. But guess what, a lot of projects are still using him as a front, or endorser or whatever they need to boost their sales. But for those who are long timers in crypto, they know better how to treat crypto personalities that have high regards with themselves. They are just saying things but they really don't mean it.

hahaha.  :D :D I can't stop laughing, how stupid the man is! it's so funny. I think now Bitcoin is just unpredictable.  no one can say when the price goes up or down. he is not only the renowned person in crypto market.  even experts can't accurately predict about crypto market. because anything can be happened on this market. anyone can predict but no one can't guarantee…

You bring up a great point here and I'm glad you brought it up because there area a lot of people out there who believe anything a famous personality says.  As a financial advisor I've come to learn no one has any guaranteed certainty when it comes to price predictions, whether for traditional markets or cryptocurrency.

I really forgot, this is one of the reasons why he is called a clown. He posted the tweet to spread FUD, because as we all know, he has been paid several times to praise a project regardless of the conditions that occur. Although honestly I hope that prediction will come true because I have converted most of my portfolio to bitcoin at that time.

For those noobs who don't know who John McAfee is:

1. John McAfee is the person who promoted scam projects such as SimmitriToken and Zombie Coin
2. He charged ~20% of the total supply of the ICO, in exchange for the promotion
3. In other cases, he charged $105,000 for each tweet he made to promote the scam ICOs
4. He is suspected of involvement of the murder of Gregory Faull in Belize
5. McAfee fled to Guatemala, in order to avoid arrest by Belizean authorities

I have no idea if he gains in Bitcoin but one thing I am sure, he earned a lot in altcoin by hyping and being a shill.  Charging around $105k for promotional tweet. (https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/2/17189880/john-mcafee-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-twitter-ico)


He used to be famous (for a short period of time) but now he is known as infamous altcoin shill  ;D

He is definitely creating a hype not only in this forum but in the whole cryptocurrency community, that person is dumb because he is just speculating it without basis. What he said is definitely not true, I do not know why many newbies out there keep believing on his opinions and tweets all over the twitter. If we understand the concept of technical analysis for sure you will also understand that what he said cannot eb true and it is just hype so we better stay away of it.

I read most of these. If you permit, I'd like to add this to the OP.

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As discussed in the previous comments, McAffee did say some things against bitcoin but he made that particular tweet to spread FOMO though.

This guy is pure hype only.
He really gains a lot of attention from people because he is already famous especially it is in the field of technology, a lot of twitter followers, he can really easy to lure people.
As what I noticed on his previous works in lot of altcoins, a lot of hype, shill shitcoin here, shill shitcoin there.
Well I can't blame him if there is some people who fall for his shilling lot of shitcoins before.

McAfee has already announced that this was a complete troll post and that he's not going to eat his dick.

It's a shame really, I really don't like this guy.

He's an absolute bane to the cryptocurrency industry and nobody should give him any attention or respect. He's single-handedly responsible for tens of thousands of peopel investing in shitcoins, and has been involved in more than a few pump and dumps.

He's a glorified shill and the quicker he goes away the quicker the industry can start recovering from his BS.

I think this is a troll post. Or he want to hype Bitcoin. If everyone or so many people believe his speech and buy Bitcoin and hold it for 3 years then Bitcoin price will up. I think this guy buy some Bitcoin and want to get huge profit from it. For this reason he post like that for hype bitcoin. Or he want to be a celebrity by a post ;D

Well, McAfee over exaggerated, he was maybe persuaded with the reality that a lot of persons and companies would have adopted bitcoin before this day having seen the direction of the market in 2017, today he has shifted his position. This man may be making some frivolous predictions which can cause a lot of people to jump into fire, he is nevertheless an asset to this community. People must learn for themselves and not digest all what their mentors or experts say.

predictions, speculation will always be there at any time, even though the person making the prediction is an expert, of course it can't be trusted because no one knows the market price will be able to move up or down in the next 3 years. having strong beliefs about future market price increases is highly recommended in this industry, but don't be easily influenced by other people's opinions, because it can backfire if we trust them too much.

The fact that media people are not able to predict the price of bitcoin has been known for a long time. An example is Arthur Hayes, the head of Bitmex who, at different times, predicted different prices for bitcoin.
His last prediction was in March, he said that by the end of 2020, the price of bitcoin will rise to $ 20,000.
Nevertheless, Hayes said in one of his interviews: "It's my job to predict whether the predictions come true or not, I don't care."

That was how they pushed a lot of people who knew little or nothing about crypto into investing in Bitcoin at about $17,000 per Bitcoin. I know a woman who almost become homeless when he became broke as Bitcoin price started going down in 2018. That time just confirmed that nobody is an expert in predicting prices in the crypto community.

Please do.

I started my journey with cryptocurrency more than 7.5 years ago. I have seen all sorts of scamming and cheating going on in the cryptocurrency market and I regard McAfee as one of the most articulate scammers. I know a huge number of people who lost their money after investing in the projects which were promoted by this loser. It is important to educate new users about what he did earlier.

McAffee just claims these things to boost his own crypto portfolio, I guess.
He's making sky-high predictions every month. Just don't take him seriously.

And don't invest based on his advice (as you could now see).

This was just for hype and thanks for him no influencer would ever say this kind of promise again. If they don't want to eat their words. The Crypto market is unpredictable no one would ever know when will it to rise or to fall. sometimes it took only one good news for the market to move and some rare occasion, without any news the price will rise without anyone knows the reason for it. There is only one thing we should know about this crypto market and that is its volatility which not even the d*ck head guy can ever predict what's gonna happen.

Even though @McAfee says that, crypto fans should judge the information and predictions disseminated via Twitter must be thoroughly digested and combined with other predictions that can be trusted, which is true and false.

I think it's still too early to consider predicting the price of Bitcoin to $ 500k. Sounds ridiculous.

If seen from current market developments, BTC is currently only worth trading in the short term, if it is seen Bulls are still in control of BTC trading at this time.

Even so I'm sure the world will see once again, Bitcoin will "break" the five-digit price figure, but the time is uncertain, just wait for the time.

According to the last news, He said I never promised such thing and Bitcoin worth 0. He also said that I wanted to have an excuse for eating one of my body parts on the national television, no joking :)
If you think deeply about him you will understand he want always supporting bitcoin but recently, he said such thing maybe because he just wanted to bring some sort of FUD and make some people sell the bitcoins and lower the price so he can buy more bitcoins for lower price. The old trick they usually do, kinda abusing social media for the price manipulation.

Indeed, from the start I never took seriously any predictions from John McAfee, so even though his predictions were wrong it didn't
matter to me. Moreover, Bitcoin can reach the price of $ 500k and it takes longer than we imagined, my prediction in about 10 years
may can be achieved.But no one can predict Bitcoin accurately, we just focus on collecting as much Bitcoin as we can. So if indeed
Bitcoin is can finally reach the price of $ 500k we can become rich people.

Let me help you with waiting. There is even a countdown page created for this event http://dickening.com/
But this challenge and topic is a bit misleading, because in November McAffee changes his price prediction to $1,000,000.

Anyway, McAffee is not a man of his words, because in December 2018, he wrote that he plans to "subcontract the task".

I almost  forgot this  Joke until i read this thread lol.

John McAfee already broke this promise and detracted His  word to eat his private part if Bitcoin did not reach half a Million price .

Maybe he was Drunk when he posted this  in social media  ;D

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This now serves Him to never commit for things specially with cryptocurrency prices prediction because no one
can assume until it happens.

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Hope he Learn His lesson and be truthful in the next social media press release.

HAHA :D. Didn't expect to see that coming. That's a hell of a lot concept when it comes to giving a name about a person who just spreads false information about crypto.

[1] McAfee backs down from wild Bitcoin $1 million price prediction (https://decrypt.co/30728/mcafee-bitcoin-million-price-prediction)

within three years it means 2020 is still covered in his prediction and 2020 isnt over yet.  dont judge the guy too early , what if price jumps this year ? mcafee is going to be the one that will laugh on us and we are the ones that will eat  our junk .

 if ever btc fail to increase that much , id still forgive him due to the corona issue that strike this year because if not corona the price could succesfully pump now . 

Well, looking upon the market graph and the possible events that happen this 2020, it is quite impossible for bitcoin to reach 500k dollars as it is too high. Thus, to conclude, bitcoin cannot achieve the prediction this 2020, that doesn't stop us to hope and expect good market price in the future years, but make sure that we aren't just waiting because the key to achieve these prices will be upon us, as the demand is always the reason why certain asset increases its price.

Did he replied anything about this failed prediction after three years?

Expert predictions are jut fake promises so never trust anyone's words because everyone is looking to get their own benefits from the crypto market.

It is really impossible and what he said and promise is a lie, he justified that he will not suck his d*ck if the price did not reached $500K per each, his reason that it is just a metaphor after all. We should no believe on someone prediction if their prediction is too high where it can considered as impossible. There are people who say that anything can happen to price but still we should always managed our expectation in order to be prepare on what will happen in present time.

He used to shit on hitbtc so badly, yet, he's listing his new project there. So one of two things are happening here,

1) he's full of $%!7
2)

I couldn't think of a second one lol. He also said he'd run for president, I get lots of CW vibes out of the guy, just out for attention, and many in the crypto space are giving it to them

Yikes ;D

We are curious about what happens in the next 3 years. We are also curious about what will happen at the end of this year. We hope that bitcoin can increase so high, and I am sure that will occurs later. I am just curious if he will do what he says or not because many of us don't believe in him.

I don't think have bad impact if bitcoin not reach above $500k for three years later, but if bitcoin keep stable on higher price above $20k will get positive respond from many investor to trust with bitcoin and altcoin, how ever bitcoin become friendly payment and could be the way how many people will get much profit with bitcoin and altcoin.

A massage market has a lot of impact.Due to this massage, the price is increasing day by day in the market.There is no doubt that the price of Bitcoin will go up.But I don't think it will go that far.
I hope everyone will benefit depending on the technology.And the digital currency will be in a better position.

Come on now. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's been over three years since he made that comment.

From $9k to $500K in five months? Be realistic mate. Even in 2021 or 2022, I doubt btc would be that high.

Corona issue or not, it's simply not plausible. What would have possibly happened if COVID-19 didn't hit us is for btc to reach a new ATH but not reach $500K by July 2020.

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Thanks. Added to OP.

Yeah, the guy is pretty good at marketing plus he looked like a "genius" to newbies eyes back in 2017. I was lucky enough to dodge a bullet that time. Thanks to the guys who were trying to expose him back then.

Of course, in three years and five years, the price of bitcoin will most likely not reach $ 500,000. All these predictions about cosmic Bitcoin prices are unrealistic. It will be quite normal for Bitcoin if it grows gradually. Celebrity predictions about big cryptocurrency prices are given more in order to make money or draw attention to their personality.

Lol ;D, anytime I come across a post that reminds me of this I just laugh really hard ;D. This same guy is now saying he’s no longer going to be investing in Bitcoin and will be going for Ethereum. Some people usually think that once you’re an influencing people or celebrity you then have the power to look into the future and predict prices lol. These people can’t be right all the time, they are just saying what they think will happen, they can’t predict anything, so people need to stop relying on them and learn to do their own research.

Even I am believing into one million dollar for one bitcoin, I am not expecting that to happen this year or next year but anytime before 2025. We need at least 5 more countries to be having positive stand against bitcoin adoption for that. I guess many governments to be thinking about it after Japan's successful run with bitcoin legalization.

After 3years was like ..... 8) 8)

There is a high chance that this is not going to happen and probably just going to be a meme, After 3 years we are all ranting online about John Mcafee and tagging him in his post  ;D.

I guess this is just for the hype so that a lot of investors will be interested in cryptocurrency.

Many people take it seriously that's why we can see some malicious speculation regarding on this and many hoping to see this up, but I don't closing this to happen but its really close to impossible since we really need a huge adoption or take over before that to be happen. but let see things coming in future if these scenario will came.

What else can he do? he's integrity already been uncounted
to this industry.


Everything around bitcoin are still speculative especially those who
are giving their own predictions.


Too high, and for sure to make it happened, a lots of investment that
needed to flow though possible if more investors and newcomers that
will help to make things happened.

Mcafee has long since ruined his reputation. He did this way before Bitcoin became a mainstream topic of discussion. I don't know why anyone would take his "prediction" seriously. He made mediocre anti-virus software. His intelligence has been tainted by years of hard drug abuse.

Haha, he can't eat his dick now, I think it was just a meme or funny response :D, although he was really hoping for Bitcoin BTC to reach $500k,and we all know John McAfee is an investor and he fully believes in Bitcoin so he will always expect it to be at a high price at all time, and we have all seen how bitcoin turned from $0.20 to $20k  in less than a decade, so anything is possible, I still believe $500k per btc is attainable buh in the future not now.

Yes, but. See how bitcoin is controlled by the Devs and miners - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5261835.msg54887225#msg54887225. Or am I wrong?

8)

Do not worry.Even though he backtracked from his bet the truth is that the value of bitcoin should increase in the end of the year 2021 as this was the case with both other halvings befoee in 2012 and 2016,after these happened bitcoin surged in price in the end of the next year.In 2020 halving was in May so let’s just wait 1.5 year as I am pretty sure it will be well worth the wait.

What will happen if the Devs reduce the block size to half of what it is, and the miners increase the fee to 50% of every transaction?

8)

not a meme because it came from his official twitter account but as i see the check mark next to his name  looks blurry  . so im skeptical if its legit or not. just is investor of btc and so i am but what our only difference is that my expectation are not high as his  . i saw the transfromation of btc  3 years ago but thats not enough to kick my motivation thru the roof   .

like on what year  ? 2040's   ? me too but how old are you now  ? not sure if we can reached that year but we can also inherit our coins to our kids

Yes, it is possible, but he makes a challenge for himself without knowing what will happen in the future. What will happen if his prediction does not happen, does he have the courage to do what he says? I also believe bitcoin price can increase high, but I am trying to realistic, and I don't try to dream high because I realize that bitcoin is not easy to predict, and it's a wild thing that ever invented. I think what we need to do now is follow the price, even if that is up or down.

Yeahh, that is a legit post from him and we all know that he is one of the biggest troll here in the internet when it comes to bitcoin  ;D Honestly, John statement is a shit now, since no one believes him anymore because of a lot of garbage statement he throws on bitcoin.

500k$ is so good to be true but still possible, It will take a lot of time but again, Bitcoin came from nothing and Bitcoin always do the unpredictable  ;D

It was obviously not ever going to happen, if he had said something like I will eat my hat if bitcoin does not reach a certain price then I could believe he could somehow fulfil his promise, after all in the episode of The Simpsons Homer loves Flanders we see Homer eating a nacho hat and some people have actually taken the time to create one in real life, that way McAfee could have fulfilled his bet, but we know he did not said that and as such it was a challenge impossible to fulfil for him or anyone else really.

As such people should take everything they read with a grain of salt especially if it is something as nonsensical as what McAfee writes.

Not sure that would happen. Everyone knew the prediction was a mere joke. McAfee doesn't control the market. How else would he had known Bitcoin would be at $500K in 3 years?  He probably made that tweet because of the epic run bitcoin had that year. I knew a lot of people who made similar predictions like that – the so called "blockchain experts" and influencers. For Bitcoin to reach such price, the adoption needs way high and we don't have such now.

Funny thing is, McAfee is too busy with politics and his ghost project. Nobody who's serious with Bitcoin will take his rants seriously.

John McAfee only speculated and the predictions he posted were just bullshit predictions. We already know who John McFee is. he just wants to be known by people as a fortune teller about the unreasonable price of BTC. I believe the price of bitcoin will go higher than now and then make a new ATH, but the price of $ 500k USD is too high and not possible at the moment.
Don't expect a price of $ 500k, when the price exceeds $ 20k I'm already quite happy.

John Mcafee is a popular crypto advertiser. He needs to convey the people to buy bitcoin and hold it. An endorser should always be exaggerated to their followers because they won`t convince people if it is only in normal endorsement. But what he said is really hilarious. I can`t imagine how a popular person can do that in front of media. And, one thing it can`t jumped the price. In fact, surpassing a new ath is really hard for bitcoin to achieve.

Bad behavior from john McAfee, I think everyone has understood the uselessness and careless actions of McAfee. Since he promoted the scam project, from there many accounts, blame him, especially after many events and actions from McAfee made his name even worse. This made me interested at the beginning of the story of John McAfee, which some people see as a cryptocurrency influencer that people believe in.

The only option anyone can do about bitcoin is to speculate and everyone is giving their fair share of speculation for years and there are always two sides to this, we all know that the price of bitcoin would rise but the real practical situation should be the evolution of bitcoin as well, what are the changes we can expect in this three years and i believe the evolution in terms of scaling will play a factor if you are talking about half a million dollars.

You can speculate about bitcoin, but you should have analysis, or you should make your analysis, and don't depend on other people analysis. But unfortunately, many investors don't have analysis, and they come to bitcoin because they see a tagline about bitcoin will skyrocket in the next three years, so don't be late to buy bitcoin. The adoption will also play a factor in making the price to increase. In these three years, bitcoin adoption is up and down following the trend in the market. Many people already frustrated with the bitcoin because they got lose much money in a few years.

We might see it in the future but there is no definite time when, maybe after 10 years or 20 years? but with the prediction that he did, he said it for the sake of hype.

He did it and successfully turned everyone to believe him. The Simpsons you gave as an example has also featured bitcoin and many episodes of it predicted the future. We don't know the future but I'm willing to hold for that long maybe 5 or 10 or more years.

500,000 is too much. Remember how the market behaved after ATH, a correction of more than 90 percent. Perhaps one day bitcoin will reach such numbers, provided that the entire global economy will show frantic growth. There is really no balance in the market due to volatility, and there are high risks of manipulation of various kinds, which suggests that there is no point in waiting for 500k in the next 3 years, just as there is no point in waiting for McAfee to eat his dick.

3 years was almost done now, I wonder if He remember this quote way back 2017.
This is obviously that John Mcafee has no credibility and reputation. Because He has a lot of statement that
didn't happened like this one that He stated on Twitter.

It was only exaggerated and if it is too much to believe it also. There are times that we undergone a behavior like this having overwhelm on something that one could even say some things that are impossible. Yeah he may sound not credible basing on that twitter post but what actually he did on other things might be credible.

However, I am still looking on that post if he will really do it on a national TV. LOL it should be a rated spg to all the viewers. Good luck on him with this challenge.

I think only the big names carried by him but it has been proven that what he predicted was not proven correctly. all can also do their own research by looking at developments in the cmc or the like, because the movement is also much influenced by many problems.

see halving experience for two times, that we see the incident of bitcoin uphill at its best position is a year later. and that is clear evidence from the previous halving, if the halving in 2020 it can be ascertained that the increase will occur in 2021, starting with the end of 2020 to continue to move towards the positive.

once again these predictions can all be unproven but seeing that there is no harm in being a concern. and continue to monitor for the benefit of the right time to step to obtain benefits that might be missed.

And the drama continues John Mcfee never cease to amaze me with hilarious speculations personally I see his twit as just to attract attraction ie attention seeker how can someone in his own imagination predict the price of bitcoin to reach a whooping $500K in three years? absolutely this is uncalled for and there is no any fundamental or technical analysis to back it up means his speculations is fictitious and need to be ignored, this is not the first time of Mcfee churning out ineffective predictions we just have to move on with his antics.

I don't think it's possible for 3 years. I am sure that the growth will be significant but not so much.

I dont think Mc should be taken serious at any time for his words, sometimes i feel he is getting paid for such role in the space. who can really eat his dick on TV? He still holding bitcoin and a old time maximalist, he as well seen the wall of prison several times and doesnt care. We can not see 500k in next 10 years in my own view but every investor will take a good profit in its 4-5 years of investment.

It’s funny how some people would be believing that these so called high influence people are telling them on Twitter. What exactly would make anyone in their right sense believe that from last three years to now the price of bitcoin will reach $500,000?

People just act so dumb, and it’s usually those people who are greedy and they are only here just so they can make money and leave. They all are seeing Bitcoin as a means that they can use to grab quick money online and start living those luxurious life. McAfee has done a lot of things that clearly shows that he’s not someone to he trusted.

https://twitter.com/SayBitcoiners/status/1290071693436706817 (https://twitter.com/SayBitcoiners/status/1290071693436706817)

This tweet summarizes this thing perfectly. People are pulling predictions out of their asses, all these 6-figure predictions have zero basis, it's just a big wild guess. It's not even about whether it will happen or not, it's just the complete lack of any methodology. If someone like that tried to trade stocks by their feelings, they would end up being broke.

In this crypto ecosystem, a lot of people love to speculate whenever there is an increase in the market value of a particular crypto coin especially Bitcoin. It is never a good idea to usually base your investment plans on these speculations.  John McAfee in my personal opinion does not understand the Bitcoin market. An increase in the price of Bitcoin in a specific moment in time  does not really promise a potential spike in the market value of Bitcoin in some years to come.  The entire crypto market do not really follow a particular pattern as a lot assumes it does.  

With 7 pages of comments, I think this thread has served its purpose and it's just right to lock it. Thank you for all the feedback!