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Lately, we haven't noticed many tweets from John McAfee about crypto. But seems he is waking up recently and making tweets about crypto. But didn't made tweets about predictions nor promote any specific coin. He retweeted his 3 years back video ("The looming war on the horizon") where he talked and predict about governments and crypto war and he believes the war has begun. And seems he is supporting crypto in this war and saying- "Crypto is our last hope for financial independence" (https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1396881405314048001).

I am not a fan of John McAfee's predictions but seems his predictions about the governments and crypto war something potential. Once we see a potential move in Bitcoin price then the negative step came out from China government. Those who believe in decentralization then should agree with what said John McAfee about financial independence, crypto is the last hope.  What do you think?

What I think is that China has been hostile towards many issues in the past, John McAfee is making this statement because of recent Chinese government moves against cryptocurrencies, even likely want to ban mining. Chinese government have been so self-centered about a lot in the past, as the whole world make use of common non-Chinese apps like the social media app like Facebook, WhatsApp and the likes, Chinese ban all such foreign social media generally, not even only the apps, Chinese government has been hostile against cryptocurrencies to the extent exchanges like Binance has to move their hard quarter out of China into another country. I have not seen this as war yet because that is how Chinese since long time. I believe the North America will always welcome cryptocurrencies, they only look after censoring it which many people that want privacy do not want, but not like Chinese government that only care about what is theirs, like the digital Yuan they want to create.

John McAfee's predictions is purely based on the drug he is doing at the time when he post his tweet or the amount of money he is offered to make that tweet. He was exposed a few years ago, that he will promote any project ..if he gets paid for it. (So his credibility in the Crypto community has been destroyed)  ::)

Also, the documentary "Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee" that was aired back in 2016.... ultimately thrashed his image and credibility, so people do not take him seriously anymore.  :P

We all agree with the statement, which was originally made by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. His real inspiration for creating cryptocurrency was to provide financial independence for ordinary people around the world. That said, I am surprised with these words being repeated by John McAfee. I regard McAfee as one of the guys who did the most damage to the reputation of cryptocurrency. He pushed back the adoption and acceptability of Bitcoin by at least a couple of years, by promoting various scam projects. He managed to tarnish the image of cryptocurrency for a long time. Hopefully spending the remainder of his life in jail will result in some sort of repentance and remorse from this criminal.

I wasn't aware that John McAfee thinks so positive about crypto currencies, good for him. Even though Elon Musk and China try to kill bitcoins, I still think positive myself about it. It just feels like a minor setback, it could take a few months but eventually we are going to recover. Governments tried in the past to ban bitcoins without any luck. There is just no way around it, and after Elon Musk I am believing in any rich people anymore.

I'm also not a McAfee fan but I agree with him...

So far the government has been controlled by bankers to control the economy and this is what makes us unable to be free and restrained. Cryptocurrency is our tool to break free from banks and governments with Bitcoin as the driving force.

Hope this doesn't look like Government is fighting crypto. I believe bad people in governments and others are fighting True Crypto. They'll need to break alots law to "ban" something that's way safer than centralized currency.
 Well Decentralized Currency governed by good rules remains the way forward.

Financial independence is a vague term, probably he wanted to say about crypto as a financial system outside the realm of government which is not sure if we can achieve it. Governments can target every miner with drones, or they can simply make possession of crypto assets a crime with death penalty and no one will dare to touch it, well, except for extremist minority.

"Everyone is an anarchist until the SWAT team knocking his door." <- not sure where I heard this quote.

That makes sense, it's not about any price prediction or any pumping altcoin that he once did just as Elon's doing this time.

Lately, there was news about bitcoin against the government cracking down mining operations and there are those banks that agree with those skeptics about it.

Don't get fooled by this loser. He did all that he could to destroy Bitcoin. He stole the hard earned money from tens of thousands of cryptocurrency users, by recommending scam projects. And when these projects failed, he even refused to listen to the victims and mocked them. Now he is trying once more to garner support from the sector by giving out statements such as this one. Let's not make the same mistake that we did 3-4 years ago. He deserves to rot behind the bars for the rest of his life.

If the global governments around the world start a war against crypto,the cryptocurrency prices will drop 10x or even more.The current Bitcoin price is somewhere around 37K USD.If the US government begins a war against BTC,the price will drop below 1K USD for sure.
Jogn McAfee is talking about financial independence,but nobody can't use a cryptocurrency exchange without KYC verification.You can't buy and sell cryptocurrencies without KYC verification.Is this "financial independence"?

I agree that Crypto is our last hope for financial independence, although I do not like McAfee. We can make money from Crypto, which we are difficult to try out there. But if we want to make money from Crypto, that will be more challenging than the other business, whether online or offline. But I am sure that we will have that opportunity, as long as we can keep trying to do what it needs.

But no matter what we've been involved in, we need to seriously do that thing and don't give up before achieving what we want. So before Crypto can become accepted globally, we still have a chance to prepare ourselves and plan to have a better future.

I highly agree about McAfee’s statements that crypto is the last hope for financial independence, and it’s what Satoshi Nakamoto has envisioned when he released his whitepaper back in 2008. It should be free from all government insight where they can’t control our funds. Cryptocurrencies are created for the people, in which we have the full custody of it and not the third party.

Why should it be free from "all government insight"? Do you really believe that this is practical? Governments around the world (examples are US, China and India) have stepped up their operations against cryptocurrency. On the outside they claim that this is to reduce tax evasion and to prevent terrorist funding, but the ultimate aim is obviously surveillance of the users. If you really want to be outside the "government insight', then you need to migrate to countries which respect individual privacy, such as Switzerland.

Many people are indeed prepared for the upcoming war since bitcoin was created. There is no doubt that when the custodial world meets decentralization, it will be a looming war on the horizon. Honestly, I want the government and the blockchain to coexist in a world where technology reaches an outstanding level but from what we see, crypto is being regulated and ban over the world, especially in China, where most miners and mining pool located

John McAfee is a popular influencer, however, it seems that the existence of Elon Musk in the crypto game makes his impacts gradate. Things will change rapidly in the future, including investment entities and assets, as well as the monetary system. The combination of these elements will reform our current cultures, beliefs, and economy so as to create a whole new horizon that we have never seen before. And unfortunately, it can be either positive or negative to us

It would have if we don't have the rich few who thr power to control the market to their advantage, financial freedom means deregulation which can result to whales in control as we have witness recently, aside from government control we should also recognise the other form of control, which to me is far more worst, a market were a few can easily determine it faith don't seem like freedom to be honest.

Well, he is right about it though, with how things are right now, I think that cryptocurrency is the only one that can easily be accessed if we want to become involved to our finances. I am a student and if I didn't know about crypto, I would probably be broke right now and all the things that I want to buy would probably be a pipe dream for me.

McAfee sure has a lot of free time for tweeting in prison but I don't believe him when se said that he lost everything from lawsuits and that he feels from free than ever. :)
I do however agree with him that we the people are in war with system and governments.

Don't speak for everyone, some people have the ability to trade crypto without KYC - after all, you know there are DEX? In addition, some countries have not yet introduced a mandatory KYC for trading up to a certain amount, and I can say that I still have the privilege of being able to go to the physical branch of the crypto exchange and buy or sell crypto without KYC. Please be careful how you write people's names, maybe John will get mad at you if he sees how careless you are ;)

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Just when we forgot about this parasite, someone gave him access to the Internet, which is a real shame - because although I don't mind that prisoners also have access to the Internet, given how he used his social networks, it would be better not to have access to them. JM hasn't figured out any truth we don't already know - China has been very negative about Bitcoin from the beginning, with the difference that it has mostly turned its head the other way when it comes to mining or mining equipment - now that they've made their CBDC, it seems they change their attitude here as well.

is he allowed to.use twitter while in prison?

he lost his relevance after he scammed users by promoting scam projects in crypto. the community could have been the only people who will back him up but he just took too much meth. he must have been drunk when he tweeted that.

Yet people listen to market manipulators like Elon Musk instead. People need to stop being led like sheep.

What's going on, he must be in jail? How can he make his tweets? I read allegations of money laundering and advertising scam projects from the US government months ago.

Cryptocurrencies are the new form of money and are the result of the internet and economics. We are working on the internet and using them mostly for economic activities, so the birth of cryptocurrencies is inevitable. Governments are monopolizing the issuance of currency. They issue and manipulate monetary value for political purposes rather than creating an equivalent for labor and commodities.
America is printing too much money and the US economy is operating on public debt. Cryptocurrency is really a good solution when it is decentralized, transparent and unmodifiable. I am referring to Bitcoin.

I will not support that bitcoin is the last hope for financial independence as of this age. Bitcoin is one of the ways to financial independence no argument about this

It's John McAfee, not Johnny Sins after all, so nothing to worry about :D

I don't think anymore that crypto is our last hope. I would say that back in 2014 but not right now. What I see is that crypto is abandoned by businessmen. Centralized exchanges hold the most cryptocurrencies, Commercial business almost owns the crypto mining. Idk idk if that's how the decentralized currency should look like.
So, in any way, not our last hope, there are endless possibilities and as time goes, unbelievable things happen. No one could imagine cryptocurrencies years ago, so, there will be something better that we can't imagine at the moment.

I do not think it is the last hope in the sense that even if this market failed there is always the chance of another satoshi eventually appearing and creating a new market out of nowhere that learned the reasons why this one failed and applying those lessons, however if it happened then we are most likely not going to see that during our lifetimes, so this is the chance that we have been waiting for to at least oppose and maybe reverse a little the tendency of more centralization and surveillance that governments have been implementing for the better part of this century.

There is a lot of positive and negative things Including what John McAfee said that crypto is our last hope.It seems like we work on this platform and sometimes depends on it and in the other hand many people doing Hard work with country field or any other business and if i clear that people have nowadays two or three profession.So in that situation we can not say crypto is our last hope but instead of how can people and government accept crypto currency and lots of people join in this feld so in that case this can be our last hope.

Is he trying to win back the communitie's heart and believe into him back? I wont be surprised that in next day they would really be saying the opposite.  :D

The next day then expect that there would be some words and they are starting out to make their own words once again and McAfee is starting out on being tactful.

But he actually had the point because if we do talk about financial independence then crypto is really our last hope and for sure majority would really be agreeing on that.

So ScamAfee is back in the game huh but now we got Elon Musk taking over his position as one of the biggest crypto 'troll' in twitter. Yep you read that right, both of them just feels like a troll that manipulated the crypto market for their own benefit. It took him a while, he and Elon should both shill Doge every day until it hits $10 lol


We have been through this over and over again. Its always China against Crypto and some other countries that followed the same step. He didnt predict anything, he was just stating an obvious facts


Im not sure what he meant with that but cryptocurrency was always meant for that purposes isnt it?

Seems like he is capable of talking some sense when not delusionally putting out insane price targets on BTC.

I'll give credit where credit is due - sure, he stirred up an immense controversy in relation to his predictions of BTC hitting $1 million by the end of 2020 or whatnot (and probably drove away some potential institutional investors by his arrogance and his claim to represent the crypto community), but what he said here is absolutely true.

Decentralised cryptos are the only refuge in a time of chaos and continued push towards greater centralisation. And if you don't hold BTC as a regular part of your portfolio then you are leaving yourself exposed to an imminent collapse of the fiat world order.

I am not a fan of John McAfee's predictions but I agree with his tweets. I think that happens today but the war happens a long time ago without we realize. But we do not have to worry because if bitcoin is not too strong, bitcoin will not survive until today and we will not see bitcoin can reach the highest price or new ATH before. Bitcoin will be buried in the bottom without any chance to increase, but we see that bitcoin can rise after many times got bad news. That does not make bitcoin crash, but even if the price crash, the price can back to the high price and make many people amazed.

Well, American prisons are notorious for contrabands so there's no surprise there since almost anything can be smuggled in the prison. Pretty sure he has a lot of money left and connections to keep him more than afloat. The Tweet about bitcoin being the last hope is a pretty bold claim for my taste but it is a welcoming one since it implies that bitcoin is doing something great.

I'm also reasoning in such way too that cryptocurrency is a last hope. Many people are not investing in crypto yet they are making it big in their different field. I think I agree that it covers a large area of hope for the youth especially investing in bitcoin and few other altccoins like ethereum. There are other fields like estate investment that people are making good money, forex I heard is profiting for some. So MCAFEE making such post may have leaving out some area of lucrative fields of life.

I would prefer that you keep your mouth shut. He had his golden opportunity back in 2016, and came off as a loudmouth. Not to mention his subsequent arrest and all the shady dealings he had to deal with:


I prefer to listen to Saylor or Keiser. Not that I trust them 100% either but they certainly give a much better image than he does. Or Andreas, who speaks from a more technical and educational perspective.

McAfee is still in Spanish prison fighting against extradition to United States, and they confiscated everything he has in fiat currencies but they can't confiscate all of his Bitcoin and cryptos.
He may be a crazy man who was not paying his taxes but there is some truth in things he was saying for years.

All it takes is one or two corrupt prison wardens out of hundreds in any state or federal prison. And McAfee has a lot of cash in hand to bribe them. Estimates are that he swindled hundreds of millions of USD worth of funds during 2016-18, by promoting various scam projects. And most of that money is parked in various offshore tax havens and the authorities don't have much success in recovering them so far. Unless he is moved to some ADX prison, he will continue to have access to various contraband.

I do sort of agree with him but I also do not agree with the "last" part, otherwise he is right. I mean when you look at it there is a big chance that this could be the hope for us to get rid of the financial doom that is waiting for everyone, look at the world economical powers and how it is working right now for the majority of the population, because how terrible it is right now this way it is totally understandable that people could move to bitcoin in a way to get away from the crooked fiat world and that part I agree with.

The part I do not accept is the "last" hope, humanity has seen terrible stuff before and there have been a ton of bad stuff and in the end we still survived, I am sure we will still find a way to get our financial independence one day.

Why would you give any credit to a man who had earned millions, turned into a conspiracy theorist and managed to fritter it all away until he was getting chased out of South American countries on weird cult-like charges. Once you get to that level of rich you become financially independent but cannot lecture the average person who has a completely different lifestyle. He has taken too many drugs and his mind is so warped that he will write any old rubbish to gain more followers. Even using the phrase "war" in this context is over alarmist and only designed to rile people up which gains him more clicks.

Wait, wasn't this guy thrown into jail or something? Is he still trending? Wasn't he supposed to eat his own pecker live on national TV? He kept on making bullshit predictions and then keeps on backing out from his bets. We could have trusted him if he actually munched on his tool. Kinda feels like he was trying to gain attention or just create a random hype or something. Would trust anything that comes out of his mouth.

Well although bitcoin is really profitable or useful to us still we cannot call it our last hope since we have so many commodities that we can use for to gain. Maybe we shouldn't rely on crypto only since remember this is not supported by government yet and many changes will happen if those legal authorities will not convince that crypto is good for their financial system.

Also we should stop listening to Mcaffee since for sure he just want to hype up and want to earn money again.

In this world and in this reality, there is no absolute independence, including financial independence. The same new-found multi-billionaires with hundreds of billions of capital behind them, still depend on the absolute majority of ordinary people who buy their goods and services. These people become poorer, so that these few percent of the population become even richer. Just any normal state with varying degrees of success exists to somehow limit the level of influence of the super-rich and try to smooth out at least a little social inequality and social injustice. Therefore, it is necessary not to talk about speculative financial independence, but to talk about how to more fairly build financial relationships between different citizens, as well as between citizens and the state. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can help in this, but you do not need to declare them a panacea.

McAfee is just like Elon Musk who tried to convince people that they are crypto supporters but they are doing that only for their own financial advantage.

McAfee tweet is definitely true for crypto but since he has destroyed  his credibility before, so this tweet might only come out to lure the innocent minds of people particularly newbies.

McAfee encouraged people to invest in scam projects, while Elon Musk encouraged investment in a meme coin. That is the difference. And while those who listened to McAfee lost all of their money, those who invested in Dogecoin are still in a good amount of profit. Proof exists to show that McAfee received monetary benefits in return for his promotion of scams, while it is difficult to prove that Elon benefitted in some way from his promotion of Dogecoin. The summary is that, we can't yet compare Elon with McAfee.

Well any government has its own political power and influence use to make money or even control some resources, and so they consider crypto as one source that can be a means of economic financial stability. that is why they are looking into it, and sometimes attempt but they fail to do so and they cannot because crypto has its way of making it grow outside government or any parties controlled and it was created to be like that and so they say crypto is the last hope for financial freedom

actually, employee wont take other job if they feel sufficient, if their life already easy for them. and for other who didnt know about crypto, will taking debt on bank, and its great because it can loan you instantly. and im sure if that tweet have different mean. never trust with rich people, they can make you stumble.

I doubt that because I already talk with many friends about searching for additional jobs that can give them more money, especially at this moment. I suggest they not to borrowing money from anyone or banks because that can make them in trouble, even if that money be used for investing in crypto. Those tweets can be people hoping to make money while they are hard to make money in their real life so that crypto can help them and their lives.

A good comment is a good comment regardless of where it comes from, and this is something obvious, right now there is a battle of centralization vs decentralization and before bitcoin appeared the battle was completely unequal and it seemed we would face a future in which every single service was centralized, but with the emergence of bitcoin the hope that we could at least take some of that power away is there, but if bitcoin fails then those hopes are going to disappear as well and the future we feared so much will come to happen.

in investing this is not everything they imagine. it is better to invest using free money, so that our minds become calm and this can ease the psychological burden later. Many people think that crypto business is a get rich quick business. even though it's true but it's worth the risk, and must be in the hands of people who are experienced in the market

Have to agree with those words even though the person who said it isn't the most nice person that you might expect to have those kind of words come out but enough of that, I am a testament to these words that he claim because back when I didn't know about bitcoin, I always worry and become anxious as to where will I go next without any money but it all changed when I was introduced to bitcoin, it wasn't instant but financial freedom is worth the wait.

The future we fear, the future for which bitcoin unconsciously fights to suppress, the future which government bodies seek to destroy as its seen as a threat yo national security and economy (Although, thats in a way) but then, with all the evils done in a centralized system, its only natural that a decentralized system could also exist and be exploit by those who deem it fit. Those who truly desires a free access to services and privacy. Sometime last year, England passed a law that allowed security operatives to spy on its citizens mean while in the same time, restrict this law from being effective on government officials or top politicians. This goes the far length to explain the importance of privacy for which they hope to deny citizens.

How ironic that the one who damaged bitcoin's reputation a few years ago was making a positive statement about cryptocurrency now. I think this is a kind of trick to redeem himself for what he did back then. It's such a shame to utter these phrases knowing you did awful acts to many people. He deserves to be put behind the bars seriously speaking. He put crypto's name on the dark side before by spreading wrong information and convincing them to join different kinds of scams and schemes. Then, later on, he made fun out of those people who trusted and followed him. He is such a jerk, isn't he?

Crypto isn't our last hope to achieve financial independence. There are many other investment vehicles that can give us high profits as well. You just have to keep looking until you find what suits your risk appetite the best.

Didn't know that he was waiting for extradition but my point still stands, that you can smuggle anything in a prison, by the time that he gets extradited, pretty sure his bitcoins are in a really safe place by then.

Gov still may make crypto illigal and this will create a lot of problems for all of us. Enormous amount of fud will drop the price to <1k.

The last hope for financial independence is wrong statement 🤣, this is not a field where it's win win for every body, some will have to lose and some will have to win so it's just like every financial businesses out there, crypto is a high risk investment haven, it's all about risks so it's not independence, stay in your freaking hole McAfee.

Finances are things in the economy that are linked together. Even Bitcoin needs an inflow of money to increase its price. Bitcoin should harmonize with the economy to become stronger.
Claiming Bitcoin is the last hope for financial freedom seems too extreme. In the past many people achieved financial freedom by investing in real estate, business, stocks and other professions and they are still financially free so McAfee's statement is not really true.

After long years of silence now Mcafee is back hyping up again crypto and I wonder if there's still someone in correct minds will still believe on what's he's saying here. I wish that he will stay on his hole and shut his mouth forever since he don't have credibility on what he is saying about cypto.

We never know what will come in the future, but once we always follow the centralized part, we will never have independence as they will always control us. Think of this, in the future it will all be a digital currency, but it's still under centralization, so the best way to compete with it is the decentralized part, as long as there's commerce, it will survive and the rich will invest on it.

He is right on his point, good thing he does not promote a specific coin, crypto is a broad market in general though.

If he says Bitcoin is financial freedom then I can accept it. The market has over 10,000 cryptocurrencies and most of them are junk. His statement sounds like an exaggeration, like an affirmation of 'invest in crypto, 100% sure'.
Investing always contains hidden money risks so not everyone who invests becomes rich. Cryptocurrency investing is considered the riskiest type of investment that I know of.

I am not a fan of this guy at all! lol. John McAfee has long lost his credibility in my eyes. The guy clearly made a huge mistake fooling a lot of people back then with his habit of promoting useless shitcoins to everyone who are gullible enough to believe. And sadly, I was one of those people when I was just starting out in this industry. But still though, It's a good thing that he is showing that he's genuinely supporting this industry as a whole by making a good statement without inserting promotions for shitcoins.

People or the community is already done into the things on what this man had done in the past and now hes trying to make out some words again and trying to be looking a Bitcoin believer or crypto believer? For sure there would be intents behind these words.

We know on whats his reputation on this market and we arent that blind on not to end up having bad impressions towards him but for those noobs out there then they should really be careful on listening into this man.

When it comes to financial independence, we are already aware with that since it has been with the basics.

Even a broken clock shows the time correct twice a day ;). I may not like the guy but the reality is that crypto is a weapon for financial independence. I can't say if it is the last but looks like if we give this up to the rich folk like Elon and we do not have our handle on the situation that means we may not have any type of success in the future tries neither, this is as serious as it gets, we are reaching stock market levels if we keep the pump going on, what else can reach these levels and still succeed if bitcoin fails?

At the end of the day it is not a simple task but we are not doing so bad neither right now, let's not forget we saw 64k+ price on bitcoin, the whole market cap was over 2 trillion dollars, we did that and not the rich people, they would have taken our money and left if it was just them, so it is really not that bad situation right now.

Maybe rich people don't control time, but they can easily move the needle in different directions ;) First, because they serve as a reference point for many ordinary investors, remember the impact on the market of Elon Musk's reluctance to continue selling Tesla cars for bitcoins, that even the following statements of Musk could not return the market to its previous level. Secondly, large investors also move large sums, so they necessarily have an impact on the market, even for a short time. Therefore, I respect the statement about the connection between bitcoin and the financial independence of an individual citizen, but with a certain degree of skepticism, and even more skepticism when such a thing comes from the mouth of John McAfee.

Im not sure what you mean with that bolded part but there are some companies that accumulated huge amount including Tesla, Microstrategy and other companies. This bull run also attracted way larger crowd compared with 2017 so obviously there are tons of people investing in this including all of those millionaires that never invested in crypto before

Btw, I wont touch anything that McAfee tweet if it isnt about crypto ( bitcoin / eth in particular ) lol

right, I feel it myself, where the projects that he supports easily reach a hard cap, but so far there are no activities, as if they just want to take money away from investors. and I think if he makes a statement, then we need to be careful, of course there will be a certain meaning in his statement

First of all, it is not John McAfee who is posting these tweets. McAfee is currently imprisoned and having Chorizo sausages for breakfast. I don't think that he is having access to social media. And knowing how greedy he is, I won't be surprised if turns out that he has sold his Twitter account to anyone in return for a monetary payment. And secondly, No one takes McAfee seriously anymore in the cryptocurrency sector. He has scammed a lot of people and we should not give him another opportunity to repeat that.

So this is what the way he diverted the issue about Him not doing his promise about eating His balls?  ;D

Now bumping his old topics for diversion , Nice try John  ;D

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But at least i love what He is saying on this one  and i have not read this tweet from before ever.

In many countries of the world there is an illegal opportunity to access social networks even while in prison.Therefore, I do not exclude the possibility that John McAfee still has the opportunity to write on social networks. However, it is possible that someone does this for him at his request, so that they do not forget about him. For this, general correct expressions are used in relation to cryptocurrency, which will interest participants in this market. This indicates that McAfee is still going to return to the world of cryptocurrency.

Prisoners in the United States are prohibited from accessing the internet, although they may have digital access. They can't contact the outside world using internet, using email or social media. For a limited period of time, tablets or laptops may be available for their use, but these devices won't be having internet. And I don't understand how you can say that McAfee is going to "return" to the world of cryptocurrency. The charges against him are quite serious and I don't think that he'll be freed anytime soon.

yeah right, it's just someone who wanted to attract attention, there's nothing in there, people already knew this guy and with his current

imprisonment, the access are limited.

Very possible, as there are still people who can be allure or trick, possible that this account already changed hands.

From what he did! nobody in serious mind will follow him, maybe newcomers will but in the long run they'll also understand it all and for get about their participations.

Whether or not is McAfee making these comments is not the point. The point is he made a very valid comment and should be applauded.
I am not a fan of McAfee. He's made several predictions in the past that didn't come true. Nevertheless, he is right concerning this.
Crypto is our last hope for financial independence and that is exactly why the government and banks are so against it. Once they are able to ban the use of crypto, trust me, there's no hope for us again financially

Well, he’s kind of right about that. Cryptocurrency is our hope for financial freedom and I don’t think anything will be able to stop us from achieving that freedom with cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency itself is that total freedom, especially when it is bitcoin that we are talking about here. Bitcoin gives you that freedom that you need financially. It is not like fiat where the government has control over everything.

We have seen some instances where people are able to achieve a purpose that would have been difficult to achieve with fiat by making use of bitcoin. We can all remember the ENDSARS protest and other ways that bitcoin has really proven to be the only means of freedom, and these are the things that we really need..

Individuals who cherish innovation and prepared to see alter of world continuously bolster the Crypto.There is no question that when the custodial world meets decentralization, it'll be a approaching war on the skyline. crypto is being directed and boycott over the world, particularly in a few created nations, where most mineworkers and mining pool located.Most of global bussiness tycoons and leaders finally accepted that crypto is best medium for this world to reach new milestone and tech innovations,The day will come we will be cash free.

Crypto gave us something we should cherish at the same time it gaves is financial independence that the government seems not to give to us. We should atleast appreciate it whole global adoption has not take place yet. We should make the most of it while it lasts. We should always make sure that we take advantage of opportunity that it gives us. Not everyone was given the chance to learn about crypto so we should make sure we grab this opportunity and never let go of it.

The government does not have the goal of making you financially independent, so it is foolish to expect the government to perform such tasks, so it is unfortunate to say that this is your task, not the task of the government. The task of the government, on the contrary, is to distribute financial flows, including collecting taxes from financially independent people, to help those citizens who need financial assistance and support from the state. Finances and their management are quite powerfully integrated into the fabric of the state, so talking about the financial independence of an individual citizen is a rather debatable issue.

We should really give value and appreciate cryptocurrency, it gave us a better opportunity and gave chance to achieve financial freedom. This indeed our last hope so better to start working now and do your best to achieve your goals in life, I agree that not everyone have the chance to earn crypto we are so lucky to be here early than those people who are still afraid to take the risk, count your blessings always and stay positive.

You want to applaud John McAfee? For what?

John McAfee is the criminal who destroyed the lives of thousands of people by encouraging them to invest in scam projects. All he cared was payments from the promoters and he openly said that he will promote any project (even if it is scam) in case he receives the payment. Apart from causing huge losses to cryptocurrency investors, his actions also resulted in permanently tarnished the reputation of cryptocurrency.  And regarding this statement, these are not his original words. This was an original statement from Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, and McAfee just plagiarized it.

He is a wise guy actually and he earned a lot from ICO industry but also lost all the respect he earned for years prior to that. But we cannot discount his abilities and he has always advocated for crypto and this time I do agree with him that achieving financial freedom is possible only through bitcoins or crypto in general.

Governments can never control crypto and hence they are trying to imitate crypto by launching their own crypto but they fail to realize that people use crypto because it offers them decentralization and freedom while a government launched crypto neither aims nor can achieve the same goals.

People like McAfee are responsible for the death of the ICO sector. A lot many users lost their hard earned money and had their lives ruined because of McAfee. If you claim that he is a wise guy, then I don't want to argue against it. But he used his wisdom for the wrong purpose. He could have easily earned money by taking part in genuine projects. But he chose to side with the scammers due to his greed. He misused the trust that he gained during the past few decades. And now after all this, he wants to be accepted in the cryptocurrency community again. I just want to say STFO to him.

I think McAfee this time has made a good shot concerning crypto even if his own credibility has been ruined already way back then. I believe he's definitely smart just like Elon Musk, too smart that it lead them to become selfish persons.

With the long years i have been in this industry, i admit i made a lot of huge profits which made me think that this crypto will lead us into financial independence in the near future. But of course, it will only be possible if you are determined to work hard and achieve your goal.

John McAfee made some great quotes including eating his own body part if the price of Bitcoin did not reach a certain valuation and even when he was helping the scammer and making millions of dollars from the cryptocurrency market he never had any remorse and he was fooling the entire market even without checking basic things and i am sure for him financial independence means taking others money with good quotes and they will be send those amounts willingly. The twist is that in the real world we call those scam  :D.

On March 5, 2021, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced that they had formally indicted McAfee and an executive adviser for allegedly fraudulently promoting certain cryptocurrencies and performing pump and dump schemes. McAfee is currently incarcerated in Spain, pending extradition to the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#Legal_issues

Sad

It's that crime that he is going to be extradited but there are more crimes he did that were reported actually, like rape and he was also the one behind the death of his neighbor. Promoting cryptocurrencies and pump and dump schemes are small things, it's likely he could get away by just denying all these that he didn't know the projects are scams. Extraditing Mcafee is a way to free him.

Crypto being hope for financial independence is true though. If a country like El Salvador today is using USD as their fiat then they'd also be losing money every time the US government prints dollars. I guess their president is on the right path.

Why you are feeling sad? He is a criminal and needs to be punished for his mischievous acts. I don't know why people always consider white collar crimes to be of a lesser magnitude when compared to robbery or murder. McAfee stole hundreds of millions of USD worth of funds and he indirectly ruined the lives of tens of thousands of people. Do you have any idea how many of these people committed suicide? I would hold McAfee responsible for their deaths. On top of that, he is also facing investigation for the murder of Gregory Faull in Belize.

I think it's a big mistake to invalidate a declaration based on the personal character of the speaker. A fact is still a fact even though if it was told by the worse individual of the world. I really don't care for John McAfee and I have nothing to say in his favour or against him, but what he said is actually the truth. Crypto is the last hope for many people. Not everyone in this universe are speculators, traders or gamblers who have crypto as a hobby or extra income source. Crypto currency is already the only and last source of income for many third world citizens who don't have opportunities on their local communities for different reasons.

Without crypto many would be starving, living in very bad conditions or not having their financial independence. Because financial independence means to act accordingly to your principles and still be able to thrive, what is nearly to impossible in regional communities, since to have a job you have to turn a blind eye to many wrong things and adapt yourself to the local hierarchy, being conniving to the system.

A bit exaggerated if he would really be taking all the blame into those people who had lost up their money but if there are people whom do commit suicide because they do lost big time on what McAfee had shilled in the past then for sure he would really have some accountability.

It just funny that now he's trying to get back the trust of the public on just saying about positive sentiment towards the market?

People arent really that dumb to give out second chances because once those bad impressions had commenced or applied then it would really stick out forever and there's no way for you to get it back or clean yourself in the eyes of people.

He can defend himself by claiming that all he did was to promote the projects and he was not involved in their development. Many of the users have accused him of promoting the projects, despite knowing that some of them are likely to be scams. But these arguments will be difficult to prove in the court. What disgusted me the most is his behavior after the promoters vanished with the money. Rather than being compassionate, he was mocking the users and saying that they are idiots to invest in such projects.

In 2018 John McAfee was the mastermind of a long bear market which caused many scam projects to surface formed in his name, now he is re-emerging with the increasing crypto movement this year, despite his support for crypto for now it may someday change future.

This is his tweet from 2017, just before he started to pump the scam projects:


His millions of cryptocurrency followers thought that this guy would help them to find the perfect cryptocurrency project to invest in. Little did they knew that he had taken money from the scamsters, to direct people in to Ponzis. Not only he received bribes for scamming the users, but he also took part in insider trading. In one instance, he posted a series of tweets, which pumped the price of Electoneum by 40% in a single day. One of his associates made use of this opprtunity to cash out the Electoneum tokens McAfee had in his possession. Electoneum became worthless soon after.

"Financial independence is the status of having enough income to pay one's living expenses for the rest of one's life without having to be employed or dependent on others. Income earned without having to work a job is commonly referred to as passive income."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_independence


According to the above definition, I see financial independence as passive income. And McAfee saying that cryptocurrency is the only path to financial independence is not entirely correct. We have many avenues to financial independence such as restaurant business, real estate investment, stock ownership, bank deposit...
So we have many ways to be financially independent, not just in the field of cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrency can bring quick wealth, but this market also brings many risks for investors.

sometimes you don't expect the words coming from someone who has it all like mcafee.

once independence is achieved that's when you be proud of yourself. you'd find yourself confident in talking to someone where ever the discussion goes when you have financial independence. It's what everyone should achieve and become a man. mcafee almost has everything in his life but seems to have messed things. now it's not just independence taken from him but also freedom.

I remember how in 2017 and 2018 a McAfee tweet was decisive for any crypto or currency project, because as soon as he tweeted recommending a currency, immediately a bomb occurred, at that time McAfee was like the Elon Musk of now, then now Elon Musk did the same as McAfee but with 1 or 2 coins, why now McAfee? However, the difference was that McAfee promoted a lot of bad coins, so everyone felt that the ones he chose to advertise was because he had received the good reward from them.

However, despite all those problems, what I do not dispute is that you are absolutely right that BTC will be the only financial outlet, and it is because it differs from the traditional economy by its deflationary nature, I hope McAfee does not continue to mess with that. more in trouble.

Independence of thought is something that we need to practice through experience and learning. Many people are influenced by stories from famous people. I am very worried about this because the other people are not sure to live up to their statements. All is just for reference, we are the ones who discover the world and find the reason to live for ourselves.
McAfee used to be the epitome of crypto believers until they realized his profiteering in the crypto space.

In the past, if there was a project that used the McAfee name, it was certain that the project could reach a hard cap, but gradually there were several scam projects, so that the name seemed to sink. I think we must learn to think logically in the crypto world, so as not to become food for people who only care about personal gain

And that's the reason the government are doing everything possible to keep it at bay, prevent their citizens from getting close, using it to gain financial sustainability and freedom, having crypto gives you a total control of your funds, no third party to interfere in your affairs which is good buy had it's own disadvantage which is not the point of discussion here.

That is simply not true. There are two things - Elon Musk never promoted scam projects, and he never benefitted from his promotion in a financial perspective. He may have promoted shitcoins, but he never promoted any projects after knowing that it was a scam. And this is exactly what John McAfee did. He took money from various scammers and promoted the projects after fully knowing that they are scams. It is ridiculous to compare Elon Musk with John McAfee. The latter is just a hardcore criminal, who is not only accused in financial crimes, but also in murder.

I would rather consider how that "independence" has worked for McAfee, that is, I would love to ask him whenever he gets out of prison for trying to be independent. To be honest, money and independence are a difficult pair. On the end, money is something that has to be accepted by a group as a means of exchange and nowadays is difficult to have that other than with bitcoin, which has the government all over it, or a state backed currency.

elon benefitted in doge pump. there is no question that otherwise he wouldn't be promoting it even on SNL. he must have benefitted a lot more than we could see thru his wealth and BTC price dips. they may have a big difference between each other but it's the same thing when greed is to be looked at. he just has a classy style because he has the network.

when he sees he doesn't have relevance in this community we shall see him desperately want to try especially now that the government is seeking the rich person who isn't paying taxes.

Not sad, McAfee has been a known piece of garbage for a long time, it's just that the laws he has broken have finally caught up with him. Tax evasion and fraud are likely some of the tamer crimes he's committed over the years.  He's also been accused of rape and murder. Guy belongs in prison.

Tell that to Ross Ulbricht because he now has more free time to tweet than anyone else, lol ... As for the McAfee, he is an inveterate liar and I am telling you this based only on the facts about which I know not by hearsay. He's a poser who is trying with all his might to attract attention, and only ... besides, you don't need to be a genius to start talking about the obvious. I was especially pleased with some of the comments addressed to him, ^{[Don’t worry. You’ve got avengers by your side].}

Yeah and its not bad to read up about on how he had fooled out people on this market.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56300593#:~:text=Businessman%20John%20McAfee%2C%20creator%20of,Twitter%20following%20to%20inflate%20prices.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/rise-fall-rise-john-mcafee-tech-pioneer-person/story?id=47346015
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/03/06/john-mcafee-indicted-fooling-crypto-currency-investors/4609447001/

This man shouldnt really be released out on prison but surprisingly if you do have the power and fame then that would be an easy bypass.

Yes, what happens is that the issue is very subjective, each person thinks differently, it is very difficult to find operators or traders who think the same way, at least they can coincide in similar decisions, but the way of operating includes the type of personality , and how is their way of solving problems in times of crisis, as the market has spent weeks ago.

I think that even athletes must have high morale, in order to recover quickly, and they have their own psychologists, I see trading as a profession where you constantly learn and sometimes it is necessary to have high morale so that the psychological part does not fail, and manifests itself in operations.

I don't sympathize John McAfee at all. But I agree with this statement. Cryptocurrencies are really our biggest hope to have our own independence in terms of money. If we lose them somehow, it'd be really devastating for all the community.

As already explained by other users, it is not his statement. It is the vision from Satoshi Nakamoto, which he explained in the Bitcoin white paper which was first published in 2008. John McAfee is doing what he does the best - plagiarizing others and taking credit for other people's work. Bitcoin may be our hope for financial independence. But at this point, let's not forget the fact that McAfee is one of the individuals who made it a lot more difficult for us to achieve that financial independence, with his numerous scams and ponzi schemes.