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According to El País, citing police sources, John McAfee, an anti-virus pioneer, killed himself in his prison cell at Brians 2 Penitentiary in Barcelona.
Prison guards found McAfee dead today. Medical specialists have not been able to resuscitate him.
Investigations into his death are ongoing, but the report states that all signs indicate suicide.
McAfee's extradition to the United States was approved by the Spanish National Court on Wednesday.
This great figure in the field of technology was arrested in October 2020 on charges of tax evasion in Barcelona.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also sued McAfee for allegedly paying money to advertise an "ICO" initial public offering on social media.
U.Today extends its sincere condolences to the McAfee family.


Source: https://u.today/breaking-antivirus-pioneer-john-mcafee-commits-suicide

Rest in peace :(

He's in for a treat if he were to be extradited, and I guess he no longer wants to be imprisoned for his tax crimes and just want to literally go out and evade the sentence. Perhaps it is also out of frustration that he was left in the dust after he was charged for tax evasion by some of his friends that he also helped along the way. John McAfee is nowhere near likeable after the pump and dumps that he helped orchestrate, though to be fair he helped shape the scene and helped us recognize some of its flaws, resulting to the maturity of the cryptocurrency market.

RIP.

There's already a topic made about his death.

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That is sad. He had gone quite on the wrong trail for quite a while... even possibly implied in the killing of a man in Belize - never confirmed - and that ended up with him on legal trouble, not that he did not deserve to be in trouble with the law. It is of bad taste to speak just badly of a deceased, even if he scammed people, so let´s just say that he was an excellent entrepreneur and manager, even if his personal life was not precisely a role model.

His life is now ended, yet the annoying and persisting spam of his antivirus (your subscription has expired, would you like to renew?) poping up in millions of computers shall remain.

Some people can't just admit the fact that karma has caught up with them. Sometimes they get blinded with all the money and power, and they think that no one can touch them. Then the day of reckoning comes and these people will be caught unaware. I am glad that tens of thousands of cryptocurrency users who were conned by John McAfee and lost all of their savings got some justice finally. And further, I hope those Mt Gox users who lost their life savings in 2014 due to scams by Mark Karpelès will also be able to get justice soon.

Shocker how people who do horrible things after living a life of luxury might not want to live in a prison for the rest of their lives, right? I mean, we should build a bunch of tin foil hat crazy conspiracy theories about it instead of looking at it from the most likely and least insane point of view.  Because the conspiracy theories are definitely more probable than Occam's razor.

Epstein I could understand--he was in for sex crimes and had already had a taste of how jail is, and he probably knew it was going to be hell on earth....or he could have been murdered.

McAfee, though?  I think his suicide is real.  Even hardened criminals kill themselves behind bars; a guy who was used to living like a king having his freedom taken away and facing the rest of his life inside a prison cell--and being as old as he was--might easily kill himself rather than face that. 

I never followed McAfee's story and thus didn't know he was even in prison until now.  It's sad that he was in there for tax evasion, that's my opinion.  Maybe he did some other bad shit in his life, but I think they Al Capone'd him.  Sad.

He has been an influential person at one time and was living his life according to him but then suddenly he turned the stones against him like shilling out the scam and promoting scam coins for which he and his bodyguard was charged for $13 million crypto scam.He targeted the twitter audience for shitcoins investment and then face charges for this and jail.Personally I am not happy not sorrow for his loss as he was one who don't matters now to the Crypto community.Who knows the conspiracies behind such suicide and interrogation will not last long.

Know him since years ago when I was using McAfee antivirus on my super old computer.

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It was a long time coming. I do believe that it may or may not be a suicide but this guy had his demons, it is really not something I would be shocked to learn if it was definitely suicide. He also had others thorn up his place and look for stuff, he even had assassination attempts on his life so I wouldn't be shocked if it wasn't suicide as well, either seem like a possibility. At the end of the day dude is gone and it is really a shame that it ended this way.

I didn't like the guy and first time hear about him was on ICO period and I disliked him because he was promoting shitcoins for money, all of his possessions were taken so he used his name as an influencer and I get it, I would do the same if I was offered money when I had none.

However just because I can understand, doesn't mean I agree and he hurt many people in crypto community, yet that still doesn't mean he deserved an end like this.

Those tweets of his were pointing that he knew that there are those that were trying to catch him. Suicide or not, he had made his life colorful. But the most unforgettable moments that he had was when he made a daily run for the shill of the day and whatever altcoin pays him his demand, he's going to tweet it and everyone in the herd follows him. That's not really new as what Elon Musk did these days. We may not like him with that attitude but he's known for his craft as one of the pioneers in anti-virus and he has made his company well known. Rest in peace John.

The conspiracy saga continues... one of my first thoughts when I saw the news about McAfee's death! His life was crazy, at least from all the things I read about him and saw in his tweets, I even watched some documentaries about his life! I guess it's hard to understand his behavior and his wars... in his head and around! For me, it's hard making a difference what was real and unreal in his stories...

Well, in my opinion, he went in his style! 75 years is not a little... and as I saw above "his life was colorful"... I can't add anything more on that! R.I.P. John...

maybe we should be saddened by the death of MCAfee because he was one of the ones who contributed to the development of this cryptocurrency, we can see from his tweets, even though sometimes the controversy and maybe the huge tax obligations make him commit violations of government laws

I'm sorry for his died  :'(... good bless you. :)
All his services mean a lot.  There are a lot of conspiracy news circulating in the online media, but what I highlight is the Whackd project, John Mcafee's Token.
https://i.ibb.co/x6hzM2G/IMG-20210625-053906-825.jpg (https://ibb.co/bX1Nr6L)
Now that John is dead, on the day he died, people sold the token for profit.  I don't know what they think. Very sad .

An image of a giant Q was posted on John McAfee's instagram account after his death. Which could mean John McAfee was Q of QAnon fame.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4mPi3lXEAMnDYS?format=jpg&name=small

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I don't know much about him aside from mcafee antivirus. There could be a massive amount of history and information relating to John McAfee and his battle against the deep state we'll never know about if he was indeed Q of QAnon. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden both have stories that are well known and publicized. I would be interested to know what John McAfee's story is. It seems McAfee is more hated than either Assange or Snowden. He must have done something to earn that.

He was a influencer in the cryptospace during the days of previous bull market. By the time he promoted various scam as well as potential projects. He was one of the personality who had his entry into cryptocurrency investment during the very beginning days. When money has been the primary thing people automatically get into unwanted things that affect their reputation and McAfee is an example of it.

McAfee entered the cryptocurrency market quite late (if I remember correctly, either in 2016 or 2017). And he was not ideologically motivated about cryptocurrency during those early days. For him, cryptocurrency was just another weapon where he could scam people and make money. He charged the new projects $105,000 for each tweet he posted to support them from his official Twitter account. From these tweets alone he made tends of millions of USD (and his followers lost hundreds of millions of USD of their savings).

I basically knew nothing about Mcafee until watching some news stories after his death, both old and new, and I totally believe what you said--the guy was obviously crazy, and that's putting it kindly.  If I were to put it unkindly, I'd probably say that he was evil (assuming the allegations of murder, rape, and everything else he was accused of were true).  From the interviews from him I've seen, I could see himself committing suicide simply to make people talk about it.  

I don't think there was a conspiracy like there may have been with J. Epstein's death, but who knows.  Luckily, neither one of these assholes was inextricably linked to bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency.  Sure, Mcafee may have owned bitcoin before, but he wasn't exactly an ambassador for it.  Thank the stars for that, because bitcoin really doesn't need another media-driven black eye right now to turn the public (and perhaps the government) against it.

Edit: Well, I guess his name was more entwined with bitcoin than I'd realized after watching this Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeq0Hnpt_Fo).  As I said, I barely knew anything about the guy before now--and the more I learn about him and his life, the more criminally insane he appears to have been.

And speaking of that, I found this source….

Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-instagram-deleted-following-q-post-after-death-2021-6

However, Instagram deleted his post and account immediately. Maybe someone had full access to John McAfee’s official Instagram and made that cryptic “Q” post.

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This is extremely sad , one should not do something like this since their life influences many people from their family and even if he had no way out, he could have for sure done something. This is never the case . I hope his family is better.
What am worried about is "if the social media played a sad role in this" ( we know how his image was therefore people always criticized him , it should have definitely been a hard thing for him to read )

There is no one answer but I hope whatsoever happened can be out in the public and may the people involved are taken care of.

What he did was definately wrong but there is no need to hold him accountable now. I do think someone definitely killed him because he was just facing 5 years in prison. Which is not much.

I thought he died because of illness. If that's true the  that's really heartbreaking news. Although it wouldn't affect the market, as a human, we'll still feel sad that he ended his life for fear and depression. I think it's because of the threats that he's been hearing and the frustrations that he has in life. It will surely be a hard thing for his family to handle but I hope that they'll be able to surpass it.

Those were already enough reasons why people sold it. They've got the profit and there's no reason for them to continue further with this coin because the sole person who advertised it has already died. Even me, if I've got a coin like this and the main guy has already quit or left, I'm going to dump it as soon as possible. That's how the market is working for projects like this. If the main stay guy has left, everyone is going to take it as negative news and that's why there's a force that everyone will start to dump it. But unlike bitcoin, despite satoshi left all of the sudden, it is still continuing until today. Well, a huge difference between John and satoshi.

Your answer kinda reminds me of the one situation that everyone thinks about: What will happen when we die? What will our relatives/friends say? Will they cry? Etc...
He was so crazy and if we add the fact that he had to spend the rest of his life in jail, maybe he was really thinking about what would happen after his death and finally commited suicide?

Also, I remember that MacAfee was claiming that he knew who was real satoshi. If he was going to commit suicide, I guess, everything would lose value and he had nothing to lose, so, why didn't he revealed the Satoshis identity?

I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

There is really a lot of talks about him being killed as well but I do not see the importance of him to be killed. I mean yeah the talk about Eipstein not killing himself but that just makes sense, dude was the owner of a pedo ring that included almost all the powerful people, that was a disgusting thing and not something you could have come out, hell USA let people whistleblow about how they killed their own people because how "dangerous" they are (check out cointelpro) yet that was fine, Eipstein was the red line man, it was impossible for those powerful people to let him speak about how had sexual relations with little kids, that is just way too disgusting and would have seen them buried alive.

However McAfee didn't had anything on anyone, dude was a bit crazy that is true but he didn't had anything on anyone and that is why I do not think he mattered enough.

There is not a grand conspiracy behind his death. Dude was a nut job that might've went senile over the last 3 or 4 years. He was a brilliant programmer, and big bitcoin proponent, but that doesn't change the fact he was involved in some white collar crimes and the feds were after him. He got some tattoo suggesting that he would never kill himself and tweeted out suggesting that people were after him...I chalk that to him being a lunatic.

He was a murderer (killed Gregory Faull) and scamster (stole hundreds of millions of USD from cryptocurrency users). The fact that he committed suicide like a coward, unable to face the fact that he will be deported to the United States doesn't make him a saint all of a sudden. The funds should be recovered and reimbursed to the users who were scammed by McAfee. IMO, McAfee did more harm than good for the cryptocurrency sector. It is time to move on and focus on other important developments in the field of cryptocurrency.

It's pretty sad but the suicide angle seems a bit suspicious if you ask some people, there was a post by McAfee in a social media platform before dying that got deleted after the report of suicide which is crazy or maybe coincidental. Remember, Epstein? This was almost the same because Epstein plans to be a whistleblower at that time.

His shitcoin is called WHACKD, he was just trying to drum up publicity about it so he could defraud more people out of money by selling it to them.  Not really that confusing, his life over the last bunch of years was devoted to fraud and schemes centered around crypto.  He made the tweet long before he was ever in danger of going to prison, it was just a publicity stunt to sell shitcoin.

Everything crazy about this man, his life and his death was crazy, he has raised a lot of problems in his life since the creation of the anti-virus company and later when he moved to work in Crypto, there has been a lot of controversy about the man and the projects he promotes and mostly fraudulent projects, can To say that he raised a lot of controversy and questions in his life in all the places he went to, and also now after his death it seems that he wanted his death to be as controversial as his life was.

I don't think that when someone who commits suicide cares if he/she/they are are going to influence their loved ones negatively or positively.

Dude, you don't know what you are talking about. John McAfee was not one of the early promoters of Bitcoin. He jumped in to the cryptocurrency bandwagon, only after Bitcoin became popular. And he did more harm than good, by promoting altcoins instead of Bitcoin. And although his $1 million prediction attracted some attention, it actually made cryptocurrency users a laughing stock in front of others. He just pulled out a random number, and gave no justification to his prediction. It actually made a lot of people to think that cryptocurrency is a scam.

Pretty much nailed it.  It didn't help that he was literally scamming people by taking payments to pump garbage projects and created his own garbage coin and was relentlessly pumping it to people who didn't know better.  The constant scamming is what ultimately led to his downfall, since he wasn't paying taxes on his scam earnings and that's why the government finally caught up to him for tax evasion.

He used innovative methods to evade taxes. He refused to file his tax returns (and therefore didn't mentioned his crypto holdings, which is mandatory for US nationals, irrespective of the fact whether they are residing in the US or not). The fiat payments he received for pumping these shitcoins (he charged $105,000 for a single tweet) were received in account of his girlfriend (who is not a citizen of the United States). According to the charge sheet put up by the IRS for extradition, the last time he filed his tax return was in 2013. After that he simply refused to file them. The justification given was that "taxation is illegal".

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1080953136985133062

I would say that it is not really that shocking that a rich person was trying to not pay taxes. I mean we literally saw the PRESIDENT BRAG ABOUT NOT PAYING TAXES in the past, Trump paid 750 bucks in taxes, that's it and nothing more, that's all he paid. His defense? "His companies did" instead, which they didn't mostly because most of them went bankrupt or paying huge sums of debt that can't be paid and inevitably they will bankrupt too.

Remember panama papers? Bunch of super wealthy people hiding their profits in panama so that they could avoid paying a tax? Or remember Eduardo Saverin? The co-founder of facebook that had over a billion dollars thanks to facebook and he moved to singapore and became a singapore citizen to avoid paying taxes. Basically all the rich people in the world find a way to avoid paying a tax, hell Bill Gates got a fake divorce to pay less taxes, A FAKE DIVORCE!

Welp, the guy did deserve it when all he was doing in the past is shilling a shitcoin and making bad reputation to Bitcoin but most people aren't affected by that and he's a not like Elon Musk who can make a change with a single tweet. That's some real power of an influencer especially in crypto market.

I felt sad a little about how he just end up his life in prison but I also believe that he deserves it to go to jail since he was scamming more people in the past by shilling his shitcoin project. I guess people are quite happy that the shiller and scammer is gone.

He deserves to go into jail but dying is another thing but since this is a self choice since this is a suicide then its an another story.People shouldnt commit this thing but due to some people do really failed when it comes to emotion handling then several people do really end up on this thing which is sad.Its just right that he should pay into those crimes that he had done in the past but its sad on how he do end up which is a sad thing.
I was shocked about this news on hearing it up but well whats done is done. Rest in peace.

Meehn :( this is very bad!!! Okay he did a lot of bad things and everyone never liked him for that, and to be truthful I also didn’t like the things he did and kind of got irritated when people talk about him always on the forum, but I never wished for him to die like this. I might have felt like he deserved going to jail, which of course he deserved if he really committed the crimes he was accused of, but I never wished him this, I don’t feel he deserved to die like this and I kind of feel sorry for him though.

This news was kind of shock  to me, but anyways, I hope he rest in peace. And let this also serve as a lesson to others that may wish to tread this same part.

Personal issues should be set aside because this is on talks of someones life which i dont see for anyone to be that bad into something should be always be taking the blame and telling that he do deserve on what happened to him.

It just sad on how he ended up his life even though he dont have much good image in terms of crypto market but in terms of the tech or antivirus itself then we cant really deny that this is something relevant or helpful.

We dont know on how he had been  thinking and on why he do end up that kind of decision.Its just sad on how he do end up his life.We deserve to live even though we do need to face up consequences but when your life is in talks then its an another story.

Who should be blamed here? If you go against the authorities, then in all probability it will end in tragedy for you. Someone like John McAfee should have known this. The problem here is that he was not ready to admit his defeat. He openly challenged the American legal system for all those years, and when the system finally caught up with him, he couldn't acknowledge it. He had a lot of financial and human resources at his hand, and had a good chance of defending himself in the US. But then he decided to escape by taking the suicide route, rather than putting up a good fight.

Since I have seen the controversial documentary film - Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee and all the things he did in Belize.. I expected something bad to happen to him in the future. The guy lived a very full life and he had little boundaries when it came to illegal actions.

It is unfortunate for a person to fly that high and then to crash like this... but "Money" got the better of him and not paying taxes to get more money... was the absolute worst decision he could have ever made.  ::)

It was shocking to hear that McAfee committed suicide but I didn't know the reasons before (didn't know he was sentenced to prison for tax evasion). His death was already decided by him through his nonsense statements that he used to give under the impact of his ego. Though, let him RIP and never come back in this world so not to commit the same things again.

I don't really care whether he paid his taxes on time, or not. My issue is that he made losses amounting to hundreds of millions of USD to cryptocurrency users by promoting scam projects. And the worst part was that he mocked the victims and made fun of them saying that they shouldn't have trusted him in the first place. Back in Brazil, he was accused of murdering his neighbor. I think that he got blinded with all the power and money that he got and became arrogant. But then, he forgot that there is something called Karma.

Considering the contributions he made, the history made will always be given importance. The felony he committed to God will be something made questionable since before he did the deed, he was sentenced to prison due to tax evasion. It's more of a like he is trying to escape that's why he did what he did. Nevertheless, suicide and death is a sensitive topic and hearing about his passing is something to be regretted for. Maybe he could acheived a lot more if he is still living right now but we can't do anything about it anymore, may his soul rest in peace now and all his sins be forgotten.

Nothing can be done anymore aside from giving his family the privacy that they needed in this moment, staying away from any thing that may harmed those love ones that he left, his addition to the tech industry should be acknoledge while those negative things that he did from the past especially with crypto industry needs now to be burried with him.

He choose or he just dont have any other options, whatever it the reason might be everything now  dies with him.

It's such a pity. The world has lost a great person. Suicidal ideation is a severe symptom of depression. I read he was put under a suicide watch due to a failed suicidal attempt. My question is, why wasn't he placed in a therapeutic restraints for someone with a history?
Well, he's dead now we probably won't hear this side of the story.
I pray his soul finds peace.

John McAfee was an expert but he messed up big time promoting scam projects and if you were in the market during the ICO boom you would know that as he promoted scam projects and many fell for the trap thinking he did his research before promoting them but later came to know that he would promote anything if anyone pays him.

I am not buying that he committed suicide and we might not know the truth.

I admit that John McAfee is very smart so he can create an antivirus, and also McAfee has very good knowledge about the crypto world.
But unfortunately McAfee's intelligence is used by him to make a lot of money by promoting scam projects, this is very detrimental to many
people who are deceived by the promotions he do. Whereas if McAfee uses his intelligence for positive things, I believe he will not end up
in prison and not suffer a fairly tragic death. Indeed only John McAfee knew the real reason why he decided to commit suicide, I most likely
agree with the opinion that he is stressed and frustrated having to accept the reality of being in prison.

Well.. it is funny.. If someone steals $10, then the society will label him as a thief. On the other hand, if someone steals $10 million, then he will be recalled as a "great person" or as a legend. John McAfee did a lot of positive contributions in the field of antivirus protection. But his overall involvement with cryptocurrency was mostly negative, and his promotions resulted in huge losses for those who followed his advice. And the worst thing was that McAfee actually mocked his victims, saying that they were stupid to trust him.

I also think like that. he is smart and has a lot of money. life in prison I don't think it will degrade his psychology, considering the many experiences he has gone through, and of course not all of them are sweet, but we don't know what is going on, he can do anything with his money.

In my opinion, he was too egoistic to admit his defeat. He chose death over deportation to the United States. A lot of people have posted various conspiracy theories related to his death. Some even claim that he was killed by the illuminati. But for me, it is clear what happened with McAfee. He was able to stay immune from the authorities for many decades. But when they caught up with him, he could not get adjusted with the new reality. It was his choice, and now let's stop blaming others for what he did.