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John McAfee, the 74-year-old software magnate-turned-crypto-bull, has been arrested in Spain on allegations of tax evasion, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. His extradition to the U.S. is pending.

https://www.coindesk.com/sec-alleges-john-mcafee-pumped-tokens-for-profit




Below you will find the 55 pages COMPLAINT filed against John McAfee, Jimmy Gale Watson, Jr. Document by Securities and Exchange Commission..(Best, Richard) (Entered: 10/05/2020)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18506139/1/securities-and-exchange-commission-v-mcafee/


Dunno about you guys but I am really happy with this step from SEC

Although I guess it's probably (well) deserved, I can also almost see the news coming out and telling that crypto is bad because it encourages tax evasion and so on...
He's a public figure (after all) and he did try quite badly to associate his name with crypto industry.

I understand but, it does feel good to finally see him pay for his actions. I lost a good chunk of money with his endorsed projects first with SETHER, and then with another project don't even remember the name lol.

I think he will eventually get away with the charges by paying a penalty to SEC board. I am sure he would have made millions it dollars by shilling those Ico's and he will be paying a small amount comparitively to get out .

I also got rekt by the Sether scam which he endorsed, but I can't be happy that he got arrested, tho. In the end was our decision/risk to put our money into that ICO. Further more we won't get our money back with his arrest.

Earlier, there was information that John McAfee had problems with the tax authorities. He had already somehow hid on a yacht to avoid being arrested for tax evasion. In my opinion, McAfee should have made good money and solved his problems with the tax authorities relatively easily. Sooner or later, it should have happened. Looks like John McAfee was taking this issue too lightly. Well, everyone should be responsible for their actions.

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Extracted this from page 10 para 35 that dude made crazy returns just from his tweets about the ICO lol.

Am I happy with this news? YES

a few years ago when I tried to invest in some project, the "McAfee Factor" is became a reference for me (I'm sure many people did it too) but then what happened with the project? with most of the projects endorsed by that old man?

I don't blame McAfee in my case, as it is purely my fault. But imagine if the project was not endorsed by McAfee at that time, it is very likely that I will not invest in the project.

What you think is not necessarily true, unless you have communicated directly with him, because logically we cannot guess the way someone's thinking, so don't confuse your thoughts with other people's thoughts in everything.

I am first feeling okay with this guy until he start being super aggressive on people in Twitter lol

I mean price prediction is fine but swearing unnecessary seems pretty dumb and tarnish the overall of the crypto scene
But yeah, if hes clear with evidence, then wish him fine then 

Does that mean I will no longer get pop ups from that McAfee web advisor trash? I have no clue how it got onto my computer but for some reason I can't get rid of it. Good riddance anyways

Well, it's not just you buddy. A lot of people trusted projects where he associates himself and he always leaves the project after profit. He had abandoned a lot of projects where some really has a good potential. I think this is a well deserved karma for him.

I don't know about the Law in U.S,does a 74 y/o can be put in jail?

Though i am happy because at least now the man will face the accusations against Him(and in a moment will keep silent from his crypto prediction) yet He is too old to be behind bars.

actually even in Youtube for me it is popping up.

$1000000 per tweet?! and ~$23000000 in total ?! man.. this is insane!
No wonder the SEC put him (them) under charges for not paying taxes and maybe more.

I wonder why he decided to take part of those ICO's back in the days and why he endorsed them. Obviously the answer is "money" but why?! when he had a lot of money, since is McAfee. For sure he was still sitting on a few millions before stepping into this shit. Strange guy.. anyways.

Maybe you browse some website that contains same kind of advertisement. Most of the pop ads is due to aware or smart ads that detects user that browse same kind of topic. IMHO, we can't guarantee that all his shit business and hype advisory will stop because he has people that running his fraud business. He is a smart guy and I believe he will just bail out soon.

I dunno if I will be happy on this news. Because this incident shows that crypto is a safe haven for people who are evading tax. SEC might tighten rules and regulations again for crypto user.

He abused his authority, he is one example why we should not trust this so called influencers, when it comes to investing in Cryptocurrency, people should do his own research not rely his fortune to people because of their stature, we are all the same here and we are capable of reaching what these so called influencers when it comes to investing.

I can garner a guess that you're one of those his crypto calls destroyed their fortunes. I remember what he did with PIVX and GHOST and how he abandoned his numerous fans in the lurch. It was really pathetic. Those coins plummeted within minutes as soon as investors got wind that McAfee was leaving the projects. I hope he pays for his numerous crypto sins.


He wasn't just a bad influence in the crypto industry, he has a zombified influence on his followers to the point that they easily would think he's always right whenever he made a call. No questions asked, "just do it" kind of stuff because McAfee says so.

Absolutely. Those fines that will be charged by SEC are just pennies compared to what he earned in the past few years here in the crypto world and even continue to gained profit as of this writing. On the other hand, McAfee have helped making crypto popular to people though in a bad way but at least people now knows whats is crypto all about.

I don't think many people will understand the whole situation. I bet a lot of people will still have the perception that crypto is used to avoid taxes and other money laundering activities. But his earnings are really overboard. I remember one project that I promoted way way back, endorsed by McAfee. I think they only used his name and he was just paid to use his name as front. Remember those tokens or ICO projects before, they always put in their title thread - like endorsed or backed by McAfee. I also believe he can easily get away from this, paying the government by small portion of those easy earnings.

Finally SEC is trying do something good, instead of trying to ban decent projects like Telegram's gram was

That looks very interesting data but in this case, if that would be very good if the name of ico that has already promoted by mcafee will be mentioned on that table too.

I think dent will be the one of project that has already promoted by mcafee.

Dude, 11 tweets for 6 million dolars is insane.

I have been getting scammed by dent too.

Likely going to be the thoughts of those speculators out of crypto will think.

Uninstall the anti-virus and check your control panel then go to programs. Do uninstall what you suspect that have brought you that. If nothing happens and it's still in there, the plugins/extensions could be the culprit from the browser you use.

will see what will happen at the end, it is good to see that he is arrested, but i do not think that he will not employ some good layers to let him out and prolong this as long as it is necessary
he is experienced shark in these waters, and i do not think that he will go down easily, not to mention that tax evasion was primary reason for arrest, not promoting crypto scams

If he will end up in jain, than his promise of eating a penis (http://dickening.com/) might be executed quicker than he thought.


I have real doubts that he even know that he was a part of promotion. Lots of crypto scam project just used his name and announce that he is their advisor or promoter. I remember only few cases that he really promoted something other than his dex. And it is hard to call it "promotion", as he just tweet few line about the project (not for free of course) and the projects already point finger on it saying: "look, John McAfee supports us!"

I think the second could be GHOST or you mean ESH. He dumped his hodling and made the coin crash and people who bought because of him lost hugely. But ghost is coming back, around $0.40.

Anyway, I think that his arrest won't be good for his person and not that it will affect cryptocurrency at large.

I think it's mostly likely for not paying the US government rather than endorsing any scams. Spain's judiciary has been extra favorable for financially accused billionaires for quite a time. But the real deal would be how largely the US goes after the extradition and how useful the spanish court would they find the money stack of McAfee. Though McAfee is a controversial person, he's one of the well know person in tech world who is all into crypto.

His influence was ... mixed. He made a lot of noise and helped increasing the awareness for Bitcoin.
On the other hand he did indeed a lot of bad to the altcoin scene, among many other (ICO) scammers. And indeed, unfortunately, many followed his words because they were expecting that he did some background check for the projects he advertised.

At one side there is reason to rejoice, because an influencer with a hidden agenda was caught, but again for a lot of people this could be cause for stress because of the precedent set here. As for Mcafee not knowing he was part of the promotion is a laughable idea in itself!

I know it is a bit of harsh, but tell me one thing about McAfee which isn't laughable.
The guy is pathetic and was making money off of too trustful people believing in his name

Jhon McAfee is not part of the ICO project but only as a promotion
but in the past the projects that McAfee talked about were very good on average and many joined to invest in ICOs I don't think McAfee was the person behind the ICO.

Obviously, he was a good marketer but the projects he was marketing have disappeared with the money raised from the investors. I realize that McAfee is just a tool for ICO projects to make money.
Clearly, marketing is just a marketing tool, and they are not a solution.

Yep, same boat as yours. I thought that dude was cool in crypto but then made some BS dares in Twitter that he can't even do like betting his D for Bitcoin reaching $1M and his prediction is way off.
Just the typical troll you see in the internet everyday with just a title shining his popularity.

This guy Mcafee must be getting senile, you know US government is after you and you decided to go to country where there is an extradition agreement with US, I don't know who he thinks he is, he has done well for the space but promoting some of these scammy ICOs raise red flag to me, I just hope he still have some cash to good lawyers and pay his fine

He is someone who has helped many scam projects to raise money from the market. A lot of investors have lost their money by believing in him after seeing his campaign, to this day they have not got their money back. Everyone who saw the ico hype of 2017 knows how this guy fooled investors and helped scammers.

Now he has been arrested, for the misdeeds he has committed and illegally earned money. He should have been arrested earlier

It is difficult to know at this point but it is possible the SEC wants to make an example out of him and he gets a very long sentence, let this be a warning to all of those that believe they can get away with anything in this market, it is true the market is unregulated and the freedom we have can be very refreshing but if you scam people and if you do this long enough and your scams are huge as well then sooner or later the law is going to find you and you will have to pay for those crimes.

He endorsed a lot scams, that tax evasion case could not be enough for all his wrong doings. Mcafee is definitely one of the worst personalities in crypto space, he’s really a bad influencer and still a lot of people in his agendas.

John McAfee was hiding for a long time from the authorities and finally he is arrested, may be it is a master plan for him to get to the US then stand for presidency as he was talking about it for a very long time :D.

I am not following any of his past allegations and i am not sure about the truth but i am certain that he promoted many scam projects in the cryptocurrency space even though he is not certain about the project nor having any information of the team members who scammed millions of dollars where John McAfee promoted.

I have kind of mixed feelings for him but yes it was always on the cards because he was the one who openly campaigned against the govt. Taxes and declared them a forced thing and a robbery and especially when we see this statement with decentralized crypto perspective it does make some sense. But then again he should have followed all the local rules and laws in his residence place.

John McAfee previously had problems with the tax authorities.  He hid on a yacht to avoid arrest for tax evasion.  Obviously, he should have made decent money and relatively easy to solve his problems with the tax authorities.  It is permissible that John McAfee took this issue too lightly.  For that he was responsible.

And now, he was totally busted.
My conclusion is, if I were him/them, I wouldn't associate my name to cryptocurrency publicly. Why? By the time you have your pockets being full, that's the time that people will then take advantage of you (For example, it will be the government). McAfee was too obvious to avoid taxes since he is promoting a platform that would eliminate his taxes. And now, he was confiscated and need for him to pay those taxes.

There are different ways to reduce tax legally, but never this kind. I hope McAfee will be able to recover from this. But since he has a lot of money, then probably he has to hire the crypto lawyers in town that expert on this case. Good luck to him.

He got this and he deserves this.
Almost all of us know how McAfee does to crypto but not a way he promotes for better but helping people to become a fool and to believe what he's saying. It's time for him to repay what he does for us and to the government but I doubted he can be put in jail for long because of his age and his money to bail him out from the jail.

His age doesn't matter a lot. He will get what he has deserved it.

I hope that the SEC will have also charged him to bring back the money that has already gotten from created promotion for the scam icos. he has been scamming so many people and do you know that if he also created some shitcoins too.

I hope SEC will also try to trace the icos that have already promoted by him and sued those icos too.

Tax evasion is basically the method governments get the famous bad people at this point, obviously he did some accounting illegalities and that is why I understand that tax evasion makes sense, however lets be honest with each other there are tons of super rich people who do tax evasion, anyone remember panama papers?

Basically all the wealthy people take their money out of country (and it was mainly to panama) and do not pay taxes on their money, and I do not even mean money digitally, I mean literally in cash form. So, do not tell me that tax evasion is a criminal offense because it is only criminal if you do not pay government their share, instead of paying 1 billion in taxes, you pay politicians 100 million and put the other 900 aside. Mcafee probably didn't do that hence why he got jailed.

I don't really understand why you are so happy about it. Arrested, yes. And why you care about it? Or does John personally get your pants dirty while you sleep?
I don't understand why you dislike of McAfee in general, and I don't really understand why so many happy emotions there from the fact of his arrest. "John McAfee was arrested - again".

Probably, some people just envy his luxury life. Some simply envy his achievements (or money). There are bunch of people that hate him for his antivirus software. Even though since Intel bought it in 2010, John should be no longer connected to it. But most hate him for his price predictions :)

Some people are happy coz he got arrested because they lost money in the scam ICOs he promoted, that's all.
I also invested in SETHER but I am neither happy nor sad, simple I don't care anymore, the past is the past.

Lol and here I thought he finally got arrested because of some stupid shits he did (like wearing a pantie as mask). At least one shiller is out of the crypto space for good. This news will probably plummet his reputation (don't know if there's anything left anyway though).


I still remember when he predicted that verge would reach 15$ then goes back on his words after dumping. I got to admit that I was one of those fools who bought too.

In Russia we used to have our own McAfee, his name was Mavrodi and he used to create and promote hyips. His projects used to be advertised even on TV. He is said to had died back in 2018 of a heart attack, but I think he had just changed the personality)

Losing his reputation is enough, no one will listen to him now he will be despise by people and the community for leading them to dubious projects and making hype projects that are known scam now, he can still go to jail it depends on his offense and the ruling of the judiciary, McAfee's online venture in Crypto is now over.

What are the forecasts of the prices lol? What are you talking about? John is just a funny old man. Like your neighbor who tells how he fought in Vietnam and how they repaired the helicopter with girls tights? Everything that he does in the public field should be divided into two and perceived ironically and no more lol. I don't know, I love McAfee - one of the few people who is just nice and fun to watch. Well, he is also quite charismatic, which is quite a valuable quality.

I think it's just envy of what they see from McAfee in the public field - a kind of grandfather's frenzy and all the other joys of a rich old age.
And as we know, envy is a serious sin, so as for me, you should not once again pay serious attention to the tricks of a mischievous old man and just be happy that such people are still alive (who know how to live).

Many new projects were promoted by him and ended up losing investors. I thought that with his big name, he should be able to develop the cryptocurrency market better but it seems he just wants to make a profit for a moment

This should have happened, McAfee promoted too many projects without him knowing it was good or not, and the proof was that many scam projects were promoted by him.

yah, this is the right course of action from the SEC but I think it will hurt the crypto market quite a bit. McAfee is a billionaire in the crypto market, if he is caught, his account will be frozen or put in public funds. that would inevitably lead to either a daily volume shortage or an immediate sell-off.
If all the evidence is unfavorable for McAfee then the year-end will be a disaster for the crypto market. Do you guys think so ? :-\

This is where the problem lies most of the time with such prosecution and more even from the glorified SEC, once the culprit meet the term of charges and pay off, he is released. And all this people have made so much from fraud to pay for what they request. Mc afree is not new to all those allegations and wonder how USA might say he is not within their arrest jurisdiction but the Spanish. I dont have anything against him, never in project he fraud but he should be prosecuted for some of the scam, we need caution for scammers.

As I know he is among the well-known people in crypto. I saw him promote some crypto project with his twitter handler and those project also use it for their marketing purpose. Some people might be very happy for seeing him in prison because many lost their funds because of him. He has a lot of money so it won't be hard for him to overcome his tax evasion problem.





He is a millionier so I think he will be out very soon by paying some money in SEC board.

not sure if im going to be happy at first because i dont know if his arrest will be beneficial for btc or to cryptos but after reading and knowing that this guy has involved on tax evasion , its a good thing that the guy was caught .

we dont need an example like that and all people that do same illegal acts should also suffer the same fate as him but while writing i remember that this guy have done or contributed some good deeds before on crypto , thats the the only thing that make me sad a little  .

While I can't say I'm happy about another man being unfortunate, I'm glad that these so called "influencers and promoters" that mislead members of the crypto community because of their own selfish gains are finally being brought to book.  There are countless people that have been rekt just because he "endorsed" those ICOs and worst, he don't care who gets rekt as far as he gets his pay cut from the project, he's good. It's just too bad that they might let him off the hook easily.

Money loves silence. Why you tell at every corner that you earned 24 million advertising ICO and many of them were a scam. Today Arthur also resigned from the post of the head of Bitmex, to everyone who acts openly will come and ask for everything

This guy, John McAfee did have problems with the taxman. And he tried to hide and be an unseen person so that he can prevent paying taxes and also avoid getting caught. But now that he got busted then many of the so called victims of  their gullibility are out to get even with him. If not in court then in social media where he made money at the expense of the losers in crypto. He made millions marketing ICOs and then gave bad predictions with Bitcoin. Anyway he has lots of money so he will be able to get the best lawyers and get away with this.

Dude was getting tens of thousands of dollars, combined for millions of dollars for promoting fake ICO's and nobody said anything about that to him, dude was basically doing insider trading of sorts for money, in real life you do not market a stock to person, you do not get paid to do that neither.

There are companies who paid 50k to him and got their name bragged on his twitter by him and in return they got millions of dollars in funding and just ran with it. This means he should be a bit responsible for each time that happened. I hope to see him locked in forever, he doesn't deserve to see a sun shine once again, I would say life sentence upon life sentence would be better, however USA has relax laws for financial crimes so I assume he would be out in 10 years or so at most.

Am I the only person here who is interested what will be with GHOST?

I think everyone understands the risks of trading cryptocurrencies. But this does not stop many people when everyone sees the opportunity to get unlimited profit. In this case, only a loss can stop it. And everyone makes a decision for themselves either to leave the trade, or to switch to other types of trading, such as holding. In any case, long-term trading will be more profitable than daily trading.

Holders should dump this token it's a token that is very much associated with McAfee, I don't think this token has potential at all checked it in the market and it's volume is not showing promised, and if McAfee spend sometimes in the prison, that will be the end for this token as no one is going to hype it it will surely lose direction.

You are not the only one and me too. FYI ghost is not only running by Mcafee and it has another people who have been working together with mcafee to create ghost coin. I think that this coin will slowly die as the guy who has been making the hype for ghost has already arrested.
The daily volume trade of ghost has been going down so much and people have no interest to buy the crap coin called ghost again.

The best thing we can learn from McAfee is that we shouldn't be doing tax evasion. In todays times it is much easier to find people who are not paying their taxes. Data can be accessed and analysed so much faster than 20 years ago that it's just not paying off anymore. Poor John going to jail with 75 years doesn't sound like a good deal, but at least he had a great life before.     

In fact, I'm not only interested in Ghost tokens, but also in other projects that were supported by John McAfee and how this situation will affect their development. I'm sure that a lot of investors and other cryptocurrency users invested their funds only because these projects were supported by McAfee.

In any case, old John McAfee is a cult figure not only in the field of cryptocurrencies, but also in the field of antivirus software. It is obvious that he felt that he was invulnerable to justice, telling about his illegal actions, which led him to these charges by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Yeah, waking up this morning I saw the news that John McAfee has been arrested on Decrypt: the headline says that the crypto king John McAfee has been arrested and sued for shilling ICOs. Calling him a crypto king is quite funny. It’s time that he goes to rest in his new room lol, he’s been a nuisance for a long time.

I can remember that this guy never liked cryptocurrency to start with, and all of a sudden, I think around that time that Bitcoin was bullish in the past years , he turned a crypto believer and started talking about how much he supports Bitcoin. And after the last ATH price, he started making his crazy predictions that there will be another , which never happened, and then he said ETH is better lol. Before I know what’s happening he started shilling ICOs.

And I read that Bitcoin.com is going to delist Ghost and ESH from the exchange, I actually thought maybe this time John will be a bit dedicated to Ghost project but this was another of his charade, the guy had no commitment in him, everything to him is like the cigarette he smokes, I feel sorry for investors who believe in him or who still believes in his lies,
Am not surprise he got into the nest of the law, the man must had it coming, always openly challenging the government and doing all sorts, I hope he can use this period to reflect and if possible mend his ways a little bit.

I do not think that such a veteran software and antivirus legemd should be treated like that i mean they should have issued him show cause notices and if he fails to respond then they could have imposed heavy fines on him and deduct through his bank account, I am saying this because he is over 70 years old and we should respect our senior citizens.

what a big news from the pump guy
but in my opinion, this is only a personal problem about tax evasion from the guy called john McAfee

Really it is a huge amount of money he was gain just from his tweets about on ICOs in that we can notify scams icons also because I was lost my few dollars investment those shitcoins, now time to pay back for him.

Haha, he is amusing with his ridiculous antics, but it was just a matter of time before the karma caught up with him. He probably already forgot about all the shilling he has done in 2017/18 and how much money naive people lost because they followed his lead when it comes to investing. Dude should rot in prison for few years to learn a lesson.

I'm not in a position to judge this man (MCAFEE), I knew him and I never liked him anymore since he entered crypto space because he never works toward keeping his reputation safe, instead he allows many rubbish projects to run on his name without him having knowledge about what the project is all about.

Believe that some people benefits alot from this John McAfee, I have a friend that is now successful enough through john mcafee GHOST token, I knew some get rekt but that's what crypto is all about, fully surrounding with risks

John mcafee have zero knowledge about crypto and yet he keeps spreading unnecessary hypes, that's his fault. And about the tax invasion that's not my problem, that's personal.

Why would you be happy about that, care to elaborate?

Well, this man was engaged in fraud and constantly evaded all laws, and how much money he collected in the cryptocurrency sphere, this is generally horror, and constantly advertised various scam projects, well, finally governments caught him, but what did he think he could constantly run away, this is impossible, now he will answer according to all the laws, because what he did is punishable by prison.

I had so much respect when I saw this guy in ICOs first because I thought he must be a great addition to any ICO and project but he started to be a team member or advisor of too many ICOs and it started looking very strange. I was wondering why he joins them and what benefits he gets and then I realized this guy takes big chunks of coins and then pump the coins by showing as if he backs those coins and people thought of a big guy is part of the ICO and invested their hard earned money.


The article says "McAfee allegedly received BTC and ETH worth more than $11.6 million for promoting seven ICOs in 2017 and 2018." which shows how money minded this guy was as he was always only looking for money and would even promote a shit coin to make it look like the future of crypto. This guy needs a long and strict interrogation now and happy he is caught!

Exactly, McAfee is not an example of a good person but he was able to make some people rich through some of the project he shilled, for example his recent ghost project was surrounded by so many hype because it was McAfee that was spare heading the project, it was a good return of investment for those who took part,
I think McAfee has some issues he refuses to deal with, now he has loss the respect of many of his followers, too bad how he has ruin his reputation by himself.

I would be really glad if this loser is extradited to the United States. He ruined so many lives, and caused hundreds of millions of USD in losses to the cryptocurrency users, by promoting scam ICOs. He continued to promote them even after knowing that these projects were scams. Those who invested in these projects after listening to him lost their hard earned savings. I hope he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Moreover he was also accepting the payments without even auditing the projects, so he wasn't doing any good for the society from the start. He was always having bad intentions towards this community and he was just shilling all the coins for the reasons of profit and I also support his extradition to the US and I hope he will see a long prison time once extradited and only then he would understand his wrong doing and that he shouldn't have done the scam with the crypto investors, a lot of the people who invested were really dependent on that money for their daily needs.

I'm sure he will be extradited to the United States to face all his criminals acts. Again, he was so influential that time that he really looks very real and that's why many investors fall for his scam trick. And it's too late before we find out that McAfee is being paid by this scam projects to project them in his twitter. And God knows who amongst his die hard followers listen to him and invest on those projects. Yeah, I would say that millions lost their money on the McAfee shilling in 2017-2018. Cult figure or not, he should be sentence.

Phew. That is a lot of money for writing random crap with typos and bad grammar. Wonder if he managed to cash in all that or if he also got caught out by dumping. I remember trying to install his stupid app that supposedly pays money for quizzes. A waste of 10 mins of my life as he even managed to scam that one.

I dont think that he can spend whole life in bars because the man is 75 years old already and maybe at 80 he will be released because of age requirements(i' not sure about this)
and also one thing for sure is that he will spend His millions or Billions just to prevent from going into jail.
so basically there will be agreement for him not to fall behind bars.
Seems like you are also one of His victim  ;D

Mcafee has already known as the father of shitcoins. He was shilling so many shitcoins and raised a lot of money from people who have been getting fooled by the shit icos in the past.
He feels good to see this guy has already arrested. If you have become the victim of mcafee and i can even imagine what you will be feeling about that. So many people have lost their respect to the mcafee.
Just try to see the fact dude and you will know the truth.

He's always drunk or on drugs so don't expect proper grammar from him. He can't even stop sniffing and wiping his nose during interviews. ;D

He sold the last of his dignity when he offered to pump shitcoins for money and shittalked BTC because he did not want to admit he was wrong with his price prediction.

I'm happy he got caught.

I believe that if John McAfee broke the law, then he should be punished, but only if this is the case. Recently, a lot of different information and some of it may well be a hoax. On the other hand, John McAfee's arrest is a move against cryptocurrencies and the entire crypto community. I think it's worth waiting a little more time and we'll see how this story ends with the arrest of John McAfee.

He is a rich person and I think he will be out very soon. Many people also angry with him because of his fake project promotion. He uses his popularity in the crypto space and promotes the low-quality projects to create hype. Many people lost their money because of this and they must be very pleasing to see what happens to him. Let's see how to ends.

Exactly, not only he was too bold with his approach of trying to not pay taxes he was very vocal about it so it is obvious people working for the government were not happy with this and they were trying everything they can to find an angle to bring him down and now it seems they have been able to get their goal as I do not see McAfee getting away from this without a heavy sentence so they can make an example out of him and other people refuse to follow his tactics.

Why his age should be a factor here? He committed a serious crime, and therefore he should get the adequate punishment, irrespective of the age, race and gender. Allen Stanford was 62-years old when he was sentenced to 110-years in prison. What McAfee did was much worse than what Stanford did. I expect a minimum of 100 years behind bars for McAfee.

With this, we should have learned that a public figure doesn't guarantee the quality of the project.
Therefore, we still can't be certain about the project only by the people who promote it, McAfee is not exceptional.
Better to invest in some certain project with no public figure but with strong team and project.

This news that I just heard really makes me disbelieve. A person who is famous and has a lot of money is caught up in the law, has not paid taxes, crypto scams and scam projects.

Hopefully what you say can be quickly acted upon. So that incidents like this don't happen again.

During 2017 we were having the ICO boom. A lot of famous people were promoting various projects. What makes McAfee different is the fact that he promoted so many projects, and he did that even after evidence was presented to him, to show that these projects were scams. And when the promoters vanished with everyone's hard earned money, McAfee refused to take any responsibility at all. He instead blamed the investors.

He has been an ass for making such calls only to pump up people and get his own pocket full from scam coins. He would go on to say anything just to make some extra money. I like the link you shared haha it still counts days and yeah they should force him to eat it now since they have arrested him ;D.

I never took this guy seriously because he was a jerk and a plague to the crypto community since the moment he started jumping into crypto.

But, he was indeed part of some coins and the thing is he should not have joined them unless he had full research about them. If someone tweets about a project positively it has be count as a promotion man. Imagine if Trump tweets about a coin and then backs away saying he was having fun. Being such a influencer and big personality you have to make every public tweet carefully, right?

I still don't understand why John McAfee would allow crypto devs to use him as advisor on something that's not guaranteed, the man doesn't care about ruining his reputation, that's why he is in all this mess, crypto is not something you can just hype without letting investors know how risky it is. Part of me feel pity for him as I am human as well.

In my opinion he let his hype about himself to get to his head, basically he believed he could do anything and get away with it, this is in fact a shared characteristic among scammers and con men, they simply believe that by using words and a few tricks they can charm the audience and do whatever they want until the day comes when they cannot, and to me it seems that McAfee has finally reached the end of the line and will most likely spend the rest of his life on jail.

Even in jail, he can still voice his opinion, but with his influence and his money I don't think he will stay in jail for long he will make a plea bargain and pay a fine and do community service and he is out again, he can do this because he can pay top-notch lawyers who can do the job for him.

It seems to me that the crypto community pays too much attention to John McAfee. He does not stand out among the likes of him trying to get share of audience attention in the crypto industry.

I am really surprised seeing people still following him and promoting his acts even after those stupid and dumb statements that he made against bitcoin after he disowned his prediction about bitcoin. I wonder why everyone still listens to him. He has branded himself as one of the craziest guy in the earth. All started back in 2012 after he went all paranoid due to those murder investigation and everything.
He is already 75 years old. Don't think he will be spending much behind bars.

John McAfee said in a tweet from a Spanish prison that while there he was happy with everything. "...I have friends here, good food everything is good " And that if he is found hanged as Epstein it will not be his fault, it is known that Epstein was found in his cell awaiting trial in 2019 with traces of fatal neck injuries and his death was ruled a suicide.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1316801215083225096

He still, that's why he get arrested right now. he got paid with very *decent value of crypto for promoting their projects or product. but yeah, it's what it's. Hope we can get better figure for crypto community

That is always a possibility since we know the justice system works differently for those that are rich and can literally buy their freedom, but everything will depend on what the US governments tries to do with this case, if they are not really interested in sending any kind of message then what you are saying is right, however if they are trying to send a message to bitcoin whales about paying their taxes then it is possible they will do everything so McAfee remains in jail as long as possible.