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Jhon McAfee has been one of the bigges figures involved in the crypto world and today he dies in Spanish Prison. I feel really bad for this news, rest in peace McAfee.

But someone has to ask it, what will happen with his cryptos, we can be sure he was holding a huge amount, so, let's keep an eye close to this topic.

We will always remember you as an awesome guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

The last info that we have regarding his riches is that it was seized or that it was gone due to some bad investments. I’m sure he still have some crypto in his stash, but even if the law enforcement finds it, they would not be able to access it at all. Perhaps consider it lost in the void just like any other stashes out there that have been lost due to forgotten passwords or drive failure.

I've been looking at the news and there's his wife that's giving a statement about how she was ordered to poison him. So that made me think that what if John has already made a last will testament and it's going to her wife including his cryptos and portfolios that he owns, those that are never seized. And he has taught her how to gain access to it if the situation comes that they're not expecting and that situation did really came to them recently.

Bitcoin is not like fiat, all he needed to have done is to let his family well acquainted with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. If privacy was enhanced, there are a lot beyond the reach of the government which could possibly be easily accessed by his family, Bitcoin has importance in which giving freedom is part of the significance.

for sure, we will be hearing a lot of stories or conspiracy stories from here and there. but he already knew his situation and if he had coins left, maybe, he already left it to his children as he claimed before he fathered about 47 children. at least one or two, may have benefited his wealth and also to his wife.  
i believe, we will never hear the truth about his wealth. maybe years from now, if in case his close members of the family will tell the truth. but right now, people will just speculate on things. and if those coins are still on his possession, consider it lost as we dont know if he left the keys to someone to recover those coins

John McAfee left his assets to none I guess. He never trust anyone, He never used the antivirus he made. He admitted it in some point. So I guess he never left that wealth also because of trust issue. His coin will be useless forever. Or if someone will discover all his secrets hidden in some vault, that includes all the keys that will lead an access to that. Just my opinion. :)

But I find him as an awesome guy. He is cool.

Why do you think so?
He started a long time ago shilling for useless tokens, that's one of the charges the SEC bought against him, and even when he was paid in BTC or ETH he used to immediately transfer those and cash out:


He was a scammer, he knew he was going to get into troubles, and despite his acts of bravado he know he was going to end up sooner or later in jail so he spends everything, I would be amazed if there is anything left out of all those millions he has got. Besides, his former wealth has already gone to dust, probably he was left with less than a million out of the 4 Forbes credited him for, that's the only explanation why he would be whoring himself at first for a few thousand dollars before entering the real scam deals with ICOs.

He tweeted this few days before his suspicious death:

I find it hard to believe him and it wouldn't be the first time he's been lying. However, we can't deny the fact that he was a smart guy and surely he has planned well how to safely pass on his crypto wealth to his family/friends after his death.

We really don't know the truth. What's the point of his tweet? Maybe he is telling the truth that he don't have any hidden crypto. He already passed all the access to the someone or it's really seized. Or maybe his friends have it that's why they're all gone. I hope they will just take care of what McAfee left.

i do agree with this that some of his fortune is being seized by government related ICO and other investment that he doing.

But i do believe he have more than one wallet since "we" sometimes has multiple wallet and those wallet can only be access by himself and maybe the coin that he have will stay on the wallet and become other crypto burn

Ya that news about him is very sad. I think McAfee already give he's wallet into hes familly. About the reason why he suicide i think it's because spain agree to extradition mcafee to US, she said before he's dead if he going back into US she believed she will be forever in jail.

Coins lost = more scarcity for everyone
Coins given to family and friends = friends and family get to have money and live better lives

Literally a win with either situation.

he tweeted his crypto fortune are all gone, it's not really for sure if it's true. he may have set aside some for his kids or his wife. a father would think that way when they know the authorities are about to get him, he probably had given some.

if not then it's lost. he probably has lots of BTC and ETH, he got about $23M for ICO promotion alone. I can still see some of those he promoted still alive.

We may or may not believe John that he didn't have cryptocurrencies anymore, but I guess it is not an issue. His death may be surprising to us but it wasn't for him. He didn't just die all of a sudden. He probably took his own life, at least that's what the news is. Supposing it was true, he must have already ironed things out regarding his wealth prior to him committing suicide. It's a lot easier to transfer crypto ownership than wealth on fiat, stocks, or bonds. It doesn't even need a lawyer.

The last tweet of john Mcafee he said i have nothing yet I regret nothing, a very sad moments came a week after his tweet. I still believe that he still have a crypto asset but he did not tell it to anyone. The only person who can make a statement about his crypto now is his wife, Maybe she know something the only person we can also trust is our wife.

Nice joke bro.
He came into popularity back in 2017 and his popularity vanished just as fast it came when he started scamming people and when ICO craze ended. He practically disappeared from "crypto world" when the 2018 bear market started.

A better question is whether he owned any cryptocurrencies at all. As I remember it back in 2017 he was getting paid mainly USD to advertise ICO scams on his twitter and when he was pump and dumping shitcoins he would have cashed out fiat in the end.
He also didn't believe in or care about bitcoin as it is evident from his actions, he was in "crypto world" to make as much money as he could quickly.

I don't want to speak ill of the dead but we will remember him as a scammer.

Such a big character as Jhon McAfee, I think this matter was prepared by him before bad things happened.
It is possible that the asset will be confiscated and controlled, but with crypto assets, it is almost impossible to control it if Jhon McAfee does not want anyone to have access to it.

I firmly believe so, his wife has long been trusted by McAfee to manage the coins he holds
after all, a husband will definitely tell all his secrets to his wife

I'm still wondering how much he holds and whether it's all in 1 wallet
I am deeply saddened by the passing of John McAfee, RIP

If ever he was probably it would remain hidden. He said the asset he got was all seized, but we knew how crypto works. Theres a lot of way he could save some on secrecy. For me I dont believe everything goes to zero. Those millions are probably spent but he woulndt drop it all since he got a family will bw left behind in case goes down to shit.

Even we make a poll here probably it will be majority thinks that he still has som crypto asset. He could lie when he mentioned its all gone. Even his wife could lie if she asked if there is any left by John.

But lets this conspiracy to pandora's box and let John rest in peace.

I was very sad to learn of McAfee's death. I honestly did not expect it. I have been reading the tweets of him in some of them he showed deep sadness.
I also remember that the defense at some point asked the authorities to take his age into consideration so that he was released. There was no success and now McAffe is dead.
In this tweet posted he was claiming that he had no hidden crypto.

RIP John McAffe

His coins will be in his wallet, especially if he stores his coins in the hardware wallet. But if someone who knows John McAfee better than other people knows about his wallet key and knows where he stores that wallet, that person will access the wallet and use his money. I wonder what will happen to the market after his death, but he can rest in peace now without doing something for the crypto market.

Yeah, his kids too I almost forgotten that he had them. I think he's wise up to give details yo his children instead to his wife that shall enjoy the money with another guy.That is a better decision if ever he has given to his children and have ot distributed to his many children. Whatever conspiracy we will hear in the internet, only him and his children and wife will know if ever had given a last will or a hint and details where is his remaining crypto wealth is and how to spend or sell it for their future.

This is probably the likely thing to happen to his coins, and if this was really the case, then he did a great service to bitcoin market as a whole because he contributed to the permanent increase of price in bitcoin.

As far as i read somewhere that he did not posses any coins / crypto. Although this statement is not believable. However, if he had crypto and bitcoin in his wallet and he had not shared his seed with anyone, than we can consider those crypto to be lost forever.
Anyways, its a sad news of his demise. Rest in Peace !!

Though I'm not saying it's impossible, I mean, if I personally had a crap ton of money in cryptocurrencies as well and I was to be prosecute by the US government, I'd probably say the same thing.

Am sure his survived by a wife and kids, and since he knew crypto has no forget password to retrieve them, chances are he shared these private keys with her... if not then these coins are lost and forgotten.

If he went down with the private keys then as crypto users we haven't done much to put in measures to retrieve such information,and consider these to be  some of the flaws of crypto imo.

John had his issues, but he was a character. I imagine he would have fit in here nicely.

I don’t know what JM did for the crypto community to consider him one of the greatest or awesome people? The man has always been surrounded by bad stories, suspicious business moves, murder charges, illegal possession of weapons and has been in various prisons several times for it.

In addition, his promotion of cryptocurrencies will be remembered through the shilling of various scam projects via Twitter, which he charged dearly for - and the deceptions and lies he used. Many have lost everything they had because of him, and they will certainly not remember him for anything good.

I have no sympathy for such people, but I would have much preferred him to have been convicted before his death - and if he really killed himself, then he has shown that he was a coward who was afraid to face the truth.

Haha... Nope.

He was promoting scams, pyramid schemes ICOs. He was a big figure, yeah, but no in the “crypto world”*. He's known for being the father of antiviruses, at least that's how I remember him.

*Should you define that “world”? What exactly is the “crypto world”? The cryptocurrency industry? The cryptographic mailing lists? A guy's, named “crypto”, world?  :P

I hope he had lots of BTC in his wallet(s). They are probably lost.

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After all, he lived his life with cocaine and lot of sex. The dream of every Wall Street broker. Once he found out about the extradition, he knew what was going to face.

Maybe he is saying the truth and that he really did lost all of his crypto fortune already, now that I think about it, Epstein allegedly committed suicide in his cell too so I think there's a conspiracy behind McAfee's death too.

John McAfee had lost most of his wealth during the last few years.
He made more money from his anti-virus software,rather than investing in cryptocurrencies.
I couldn't care less about his coins.Perhaps he has some worthless shitcoins in his accounts.
I really doubt that he has any BTC left.

I don't think John McAfee had any decent amounts of money at the time of his death, including in cryptocurrency. Among his most recent tweets, he stated that he had no money left. Some of them were actually confiscated by the relevant US authorities. One might not believe him, but the very fact of his suicide after that indicates that this time he seems to have told the truth. Due to the lack of money, he did not see a positive way out of this situation. Considering that he was already 75 years old, he clearly imagined that he would never get out alive. Therefore, I decided to take such a step.

He always liked those anonymous coins. If he did have any coins left, he probably had coins like Monero.

To paraphrase what Davis196 said above, who the f**k cares and why? Morbid curiosity?
The dude was a 1st class jerk who bankrupted himself and on the way down took a lot of investors with him.

I am not sure that people should remember him as an "awesome guy".  John had a lot of negative qualities about him that I think was a negative for a good chunk of people.  One thing that he did that I'd say is hard to justify him as a "good guy" is his involvement with quite a few scammy types of cryptocurrencies. 

He stated recently while in prison that he has no coins left to his name.  Whether that is true or not is probably impossible to say.

McAfee is known as one of the world's leading anti-virus software pioneers and the world knows him, and he was reportedly found dead by suicide in a prison in Barcelona, Spain.
many stories and cases were made by him and also became a controversy for being a fake crypto teacher to allegedly killing his neighbor and so on, and his death is still a question mark because he has stated that he cannot stand in prison.
for bitcoin or other crypto holdings I don't care because we won't know the truth like he does.

All Bitcoin and Ethereum will be lost, given enough time. That is just a fact. Maybe he instructed someone how to gain access to his crypto, then again maybe he didn't.

McAfee was a very important and influential figure in Crypto and was also in the past an expert in computer software and must have taken the necessary precautions before his death in order for his family to inherit his huge fortune in cryptocurrencies, surely he gave his family passwords and two-factor authentication codes to access his accounts or wallets.
If he hadn't done it earlier and gave his family this important data then I think McAfee's digital fortune was lost forever because he died in prison and he certainly wouldn't give the cops any real information to get access to his accounts and wallets.

Maybe he didn't give his family passwords and two-factor authentication codes. Maybe he was worried they would clean him out and squander his cryptofunds on whatever. Maybe he didn't trust them enough.

A terrible thing. Even though I didn't always like his pump&dumps, I somehow admired him.

I don't know if you know, but the initial information is that he hanged himself. It looks weird considering what he wrote on Twitter some time ago ..

https://i.imgur.com/3Da4s3w.jpg

source: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1316801215083225096

I'm not sure if this could have anything to do with the coins he own, but the situation is quite strange.

His last Tweets say he doesn't have anything left, or that they are all with McAfee (the company) and all gone. He would have taken care of all that already with his lawyers long before this, so I doubt there's anything left that's locked.

His daughter seemed the most active campaigner of all so I bet she's the one who knows most where his stash is, if there's any left.

Popular influencers, tech-guru and anti-virus creator John McAfee found dead in a Spanish prison cell. Super rich guy gets arrested then committed suicide even though he is known as whales in crypto industry. His tattoo grew up conspiracy, however few thing we will never know. John McAfee was a  smart influencers, I doubt he has any left.

Hold until you die. Get buried with your crypto. Diamond hands. Worthless  :D :D

What to do, what to do??? If you don't tell anyone your key, your crypto dies with you. If you do tell someone your keys, they might rip you off and squander it on some BS.

Then again, even if you do tell someone, they might lose that info and it will still be lost.

Shocked to hear this, may he die in peace. I don't even know why he went to jail. Even what the fault. But I'm sure he will be a legend before Elon Musk. Too bad I haven't been following him much lately, last I heard he supports several ETH, Monero and DAI coins. In addition he became an influencer on the ICO project. Regarding the issue of losing coins, I don't know but I think since he was imprisoned he should start giving his family records regarding assets and private keys.

too much unclear information about the controversy over John McAfee's death. some say that all the coins he owned were confiscated due to making some bad investments some say they were lost.
but whatever it is, I don't know much about it, that's for sure, even if there are some missing coins, of course there are still ones that he keeps regardless if other people know it or not
Then maybe his fate, yes, we don't know for sure if anyone else knows about the wallet he has, of course it has changed hands or he has inherited it before he died.
but if not, then you know what's the answer

True, i have been searching some certain information about how it happens and there is not much information. But jails have cameras, the truth should come soon. and if it doesn't come the reason is that it was a murder. The lawyer is waiting for the autopsy to proceed with legal actions.

And the words from Snowden are something to worry about, he said the next one could be Assange :( let's see what happens.

we are only faced with confusing news without clarity. from this point of view and from this family side. to not find a bright spot about the whereabouts of John's willed assets. it is clear that it will spark controversy with news stories according to the mainstream media version.
regardless of the news we received, hopefully, it doesn't fall into evil hands and there's no confiscation from the government. because if it falls into irresponsible hands it will tarnish Bitcoin with all alibis to be used as strong evidence.

A sad story from whatever side you look at it. I think this guy was sentenced even before he goes to jail and no one will say for certain what and why exactly. Maybe because he "knew too much", maybe because he attracted someone's money in dubious projects and they turned out to be a dummy, and he did not want to be responsible for other people's decisions. And you can think of many more of these "can" and they will all be equally far from the truth. It's a pity for the guy, because he was a rather odious figure and an interesting person and definitely did not deserve such a death. Maybe someday we will find out the truth about this, but definitely not now. And what happened to his coins - I personally am less interested in this.

This man was a security expert and he was always talking about having a dead man switch plan in place. He either ran out of coins or if he had any left then you have to believe his loved ones will have access to his stash. Either way this is a sad story. RIP John

He had a wife, though. They've been on the run together for a long time. I'm not entirely sure he'd trust his money to her, as he, indeed, was more of an introvert and rather paranoid. He didn't even call any of his relatives to say goodbye, many of his actions came out as a surprise to the close ones.

But, nevertheless, there is a possibility he trusted her more than anyone else.

First of all, we clearly grieve for what has happened, all his actions have been carried out with what has been received and it is a form of what has been done himself. we must forget anything that has ever been made that may not always be fun, let the good things we remember for him.

I don't believe that someone as smart as him would give up his crypto, without notifying those he really trusted. it is clear that this has been done but we don't really need to question it because it is not appropriate and appropriate. let this be a separate story in the future.

McAfee has more than 40 children, I'm sure one of them knows the secret that is owned by McAfee and is burdened with the responsibility to distribute McAfee's inheritance.
A lot of money when the ICO was very popular and McAfee became an advisor and became a supporter of several projects.

It is a good question actually. Because we don't know whether he shared his private keys etc. with someone before he died. In my opinion, he did it but didn't want anyone to hear about it. If he didn't do it, then all of his coins will be gone forever.

 :o

I confess that I didn't know that, having so many children seems to even one of those African peasant leaders who all they know how to do is have many children in the villages


I doubt he told, he was not the type of person who wanted to have family ties, the fact that he had 40 children shows that


had a lot of money and went broke

On the time i had heard such news i thought that it was just all some trolling or false news or something but it was actually true where McAfee had died and its true that information about his death wasnt really that clear and lots of controversial on where most people been saying or seeing the same thing which do also boggles out my mind.Whatever the things that he had done on this market where majority is really being hating him then we should just set aside for it for now and at least showing off some condolences on this guy.
He might have some bad reputation on this market but he's still need some respect and about his holdings then it none of our business
it if it was inherited or totally lost.

I thought of this too and I came to the irrefutable conclusion that for a man who was a proponent of privacy, (he also expressed it with the Ghost token by McAfee). Does anyone here remember that expedition with GHOST, and how horribly he left it? I believe he secured his bag very well with that. Again, he had enough time to tie up loose ends and pass vital information to his trusted allies (may be some side chicks too, as a gross womaniser that he was) while he was still in prison, knowing the precarious situation he was in. It's just the same way any old man should know that once they begin to fall sick in and out that the moment of demise is close by. McAfee would've passed that important message down before exiting. Otherwise, it would be a shame that he didn't despite available knowledge he had.

I am sure that he would've split it among his children if he really has a lot of crypto and if he really has a lot of kids. I don't think that they have to worry about the distribution of inheritance because I am sure that McAfee probably has a lawyer that will do the work for him. To answer the question, I think that if he did have those we speculate, I think that he has already given it or used it in some form.

What are the chances that a 75-year old would not keep wallet backups to access his coins, in case something happens to him? In the unlikely scenario of him not doing that, it is going to be a loss for his family members and relatives. But how many coins did he own? And I am sure that the vast majority of these coins were earned through unfair means (by pumping scam projects). So if these coins are inaccessible now, then I am perfectly OK with it. My only regret is that those cryptocurrency users who got scammed by McAfee will never receive any reimbursement for their losses.

Does he have any holdings? probably he gave his private key to one of his family members. Anyway, if he doesn't give it to anyone it's probably one of the lost coins out there. Well rest in peace to McAfee I think it's not a suicide, he tweeted a lot of times that if he killed himself that's not him.

If no one knows his private keys then all his coins are lost. We would never be able to know because we do not know his wallet addresses.

This is a concerning aspect of crypto for which i will create a new topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5346148.new#new) to discuss.

Given that he has long been under the close supervision of law enforcement agencies, he most likely secured his assets, but not the fact that he foresaw such an outcome of events. Perhaps the main part of his crypto assets is now lost forever, because protecting them from prying eyes, you hide them from all your loved ones.

We'll have to wait for the autopsy report. If he was alone in his cell, there's no way he could be somewhat murdered.

And that "call" could also be interpreted as "news of his death", and not a phone call. Sometimes people tend to hide messages in their statements.

That is indeed an interesting question. I recently saw a documentary about him and his life. I think he was quite paranoid at the end and had trusted only a few. If he still owned crypto - there were always rumors that he was actually broke - I think he took it to the grave. I can't imagine that he would have deposited his private keys somewhere, because he always had to expect that the FBI would find out about him and confiscate his virtual assets.

It seems that his coins are lost. I personally also write all my wallet data in a book but my family still don't know about it. I think I should tell my family about it so they can access it too. He is a businessman, so I think his family is already rich and maybe don't need more money, so in my opinion there is probability that his coins are completely unaccessible.

What if his wife is not saying the truth? If she admits that she can access those coins, then they will be seized by the FBI (because most of the coins were earned through scams in 2017 and 2018). His wife may be having the private key with her to access those wallets. But she is not going to spend them, unless those coins can be mixed and then washed. I really don't think that someone like McAfee would keep the wallet backups to himself without sharing them with his spouse. For those who were scammed by McAfee, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. They are not going to get any compensation.

but it's possible that someone else has access to it whether it's his family or his closest or most trusted person, but we also don't know who McAfee gave access to his crypto wealth. It is possible that his wealth in crypto will be confiscated by the authorities. they will dig up all the information needed to be able to open access to McAfee's wallet because that is the protocol that must be done.
But maybe some families know I don't know.

McAfee's death in prison by suicide is very sad news, he has given up on his life. even though he is a genius and full of controversial figures.

Hasn't all his crypto assets been given to his wife?

I read on another topic that before John McAfee died he called his wife to see him. there's no way he took all his crypto assets to death because it must be quite a large amount. His family must have secured all his assets before he died.

He is a scammer, and in a very bad way, he has wasted his money by investing in some worst projects. Presumably based on his last tweet, he was overwhelmed and destitute, and very frustrated with life, Which led him to commit suicide. He had no remorse for his misdeeds. After all, I think the rest of his assets have been confiscated and I don't think he has any investment in any good cryptocurrency other than shitcoin.

Jhon McAfee is very influential on the internet and antivirus technology he is very smart and why smart people and those who should die in prison this will not have a good impact on crytocurrency even for a moment but we all believe still need a lot of influence from John McAfee

There are a few things that need to be remembered here. McAfee didn't took the decision to take his life all of a sudden. He was planning to commit suicide, if the court orders his deportation to the United States. When that is the case, I don't think that he will intentionally keep the private keys away from his wife. He might have told her how to access the wallet backups, when he met her for the last time. But now there is no way for the law enforcement authorities to prove this, unless his wife admits that she can access those coins.

even though that person has therapy the coins must still be stored in each of their respective accounts.because they must have bequeathed to their children and given the key code or account to the heirs of all their
assets.therefore even though we have died the coins will still be there and will not be lost, unless we don't give it to our family, because of that we have to share the pin key with family or the closest people around us so that we don't keep the coins forever in our account even though he's gone later

I believe issues like this have been discussed in this thread before and it is no different with the Late John McAfee RIP. I believe he must have shared the necessary information with his wife at least or a trusted family/friend should in case something bad happens and I saw him as a smart person that will not allow that to happen and I hope he was able to do share that with is loved on cos if not, it is just another lost asset of cryptocurrencies. 

It is not necessary that he need to provide the private keys to his spouse or some relative. Those who are having a few years of experience might have heard about "dead man's switch". Some of the wallets have this option. If the wallet is not logged in for a specific period set by the owner (6 months, 12 months or even 24 months), then after this duration the coins will be transferred to a "nominee wallet" which has been previously selected by the owner. So the spouse or the relative doesn't need any new information to access these coins. After a certain duration, they will receive the coins in their wallet.

That is great and if this is the case, those types of wallets with that option should be every investor's go-to wallet because of the inevitable. While most people have been having issues whether such wallet access information should be shared with loved ones, with this option that wouldn't be a problem knowing crypto assets won't be lost.   

Not sure if this has already been mentioned in this thread ... but John had a financial assistant a couple of years ago who had access to his wallets. I'm not sure about his bitcoin wallets, but as a primary source, I can reliably say that in 2017, during one unpleasant incident, McAfee stated not ambiguously that a third party had access to his altcoin wallets. By the way, despite the fact that during his lifetime he was a swindler and a liar ... RIP 🕯️.

McAfee antivirus enterpreuter John McAfee already suicided in Spanish prison cell but his wallets may be reserved by his personal devices or notebook or his relatives. But if he didn't save it , it would be lost for ever.

There is nothing like a risk-free option. For example, let's take an example. You opt for this option, and set your cousin's wallet address as the receiver if your wallet becomes inactive for more than 6 months. And after sometime, you simply forget that you have to login to this wallet. In such case, your funds will be automatically moved to your cousin's wallet address. Or let's take another example. You met with an accident and slips in to a coma for 6-7 months. In this case also, your coins will be transferred out of your wallet.

Did he really commit suicide or this is some kind of compulsion that happened, if in case that John McAfee suicide, his assets will be announced by his lawyer and his relatives who will have all the financial numbers and bitcoin, that is in the interest of the law but falls under the latter case, some coercive effects could become an opportunity to vaporize those numbers, maybe bitcoin was contributed to the general fund of the government. And for such an unknown amount of bitcoin, it will form a lot of strange fluctuations in the future

McAfee was a angle investor who invested hugely in different ico and IEO but I wondered that if he decided to suicide but he must write his personal wallet securities to his relatives . But they gonna get any wallet security?

Not really believing on investing mainly and i would rather believe that he do mainly focus on advertising rather than on investing and we do know that he didnt done well on this manner.
This is why he had been known to be a clown on this market whenever he do shill out ICO or new projects and turns out to be a scam then that one really make out some problem or effects on his reputation.
When it comes to wallet then i dont know on what you mean about security.This is a matter if those coins he owned had been shared in terms of private keys or have some access
neither on his loved ones or friends but for sure it would be mainly on the family which is normal.

I have a feeling that John burned through all his riches, lost them to a variety of extravagant schemes or had them seized from him by different jurisdictions or criminals. I very much doubt he would have fled South America, because even if he just had a few hundred thousand left he could have found some decent places to continue his hideaway strategy. After all the persecution (rightly or wrongly deserved) he faced from the US government, I expect they would have closed down most convenient ways of hiding any money he had left - even in the form of Bitcoin wallets which would have likely been stored online if he wanted to travel without losing a hardware based wallet.

And now US do really effort to seize up his assets?

John McAfee’s Death Complicates U.S. Efforts to Seize His Assets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-29/mcafee-s-death-complicates-u-s-efforts-to-seize-his-assets

Does his family doesnt have the full rights for those riches he had made? He do still own those.

He claimed to have nothing else in his hands regards crypto. It's not possible to know, however, if he was telling the truth or just trying to keep his treasure safe from third party undesired attention. Anyway that is not an impossible mistery to be solved, because transactions can be tracked and if authorities investigate it carefully they will find a connection betweeen McAfee, his coins and its currently whereabouts.
Or maybe he was just saying the truth and there were no coins left, what I think might be the real history, since he was in financial difficulties, as it is well known due to living a life without rules or limits.

Maybe he did something so that his family can still access his coins even if the privacy was enhanced still government will look something into it.

Financial freedom is one of the main reason why we chose to invest and engage in cryptocurrency and I know that John still give importance to it.

His family are now the owner of his asset and it will become useless if McAfee didn't inform any of them.

His family can't own those assets. McAfee got almost all of his cryptocurrency stash from promoting ICO scams. The lawsuit is still ongoing. Those who were victimized during these scams need to be compensated. I don't know how many coins remain in his wallets, but I am sure that he still had millions of USD worth of cryptocurrency at the time of his death. The authorities should do the needful, so that these assets are distributed as compensation to those who were scammed by McAfee during the ICO boom of 2016-18.

Nope even if he does not trust anyone yet he has family and love ones that will benefits from all of His funds .

and He planned to commit suicide( if the news is correct and he is not killed inside the prison) so by chance he also had plans for whom will take care of those assets.

Awesome because he is already dead , but in the past you are surely annoyed by His statements in this whole community .

That will find more interesting as it possible that John had million of crypto assets held in his wallet. That seems impossible if he could tell it everything even to his family.


Anyways,
If that he is telling the truth (probably) then, we have nothing to worry about it.
He is gone together with his assets and now it belongs to the government. Well, the question is how the authorities manage those seized cryptos? Are they might spend it or give it to the poor people or in charity? I hope that will be happening.

In case of seized assets the government can hold or sell through an auction. Bulgaria for an example, was discovered to be a bitcoin whale holding more than 213,519 bitcoins. If other countries are smart they are also going to hold seized bitcoins just like Bulgaria did. This way they can invest in bitcoin without having to pass any law in the legislative house, what would take a lot of time and in many countries bribery for congressmen vote favourably. About McAfee, however, I don't know if they are going to find anything... Let's see soon.

Bulgarian government actually owns $3 billion USD in Bitcoin (Mar 24, 2021) (https://www.coininsider.com/bulgarian-government-owns-3-billion-usd-bitcoin/)

How could a smart guy like McAfee ended like that, I couldn't buy that story, even his death was unclear, he has a wide range of network, and has many connections even in politics or government.

Then suddenly, appears, all of his investment was gone into thin air, to me, it was all orchestrated, all of his coins was secretively transferred to his family.

 

An awesome guy to make his early entry into the cryptomarket. Maybe if he had got all the holdings, now his venture will also be one among the list of companies with large volume of crypto holdings. In the meantime he got into more scam projects as well as promoted it. This is where he got into discussion, and once he also served as a reason for the increase in the usage of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In a tweet he had stated, he hasn't got anything left with him as government has seized and remaining evaporated on different means.

John McAfee once told his fans on Twitter that all his cryptocurrencies have disappeared. Although he admitted, not everyone would believe it.
The 76-year-old said on Twitter earlier: “I don’t have anything. But, I don’t regret it,” and pointed out: “The United States thinks I hide the cryptocurrency. I wish I had it, but ended McAfee Many people on the team lost their hands (you don’t have to believe it), and all my remaining assets have been confiscated. My friend disappeared because of fear of socializing."
Maybe he is telling the truth, but people don't want to believe it. But his death surprised me. He may have committed suicide. The news is like this. Before that, he must have done what he wanted to do, so he ended his life. When I saw the news, my heart was still very sad. Rest in peace.
This is my personal opinion.

indeed the private key should have previously been given to the closest person, so that his wealth in the form of crypto or something else can be used by his family, but if that doesn't happen then the supply of crypto will decrease because it seems to be lost. but with a diminishing supply, it is possible that prices will easily soar

it is clear that a very intelligent person will commit no fatal mistake other than if he is senile or deceived by his advisors.
but it's clear he has prepared everything carefully in case something happens to him and we can't possibly know apart there is information from their circle.
I do not believe that the investment he has can not be given to his close people. let time tell later.

it must have been thought long before anything would happen to him, he and his family were certainly not new to this and they had been in the business for a long time and knew what would happen in the absence of usable data. That's why it's clear that a smart person like him has prepared as well as possible and it's hard for us to know.

Maybe that's the reason for ending like that, the connections that he had with politicians and influential people, maybe the network that he has is what's made him a target for an alleged neutralization and that they don't want it to leak outside, remember that there was an Instagram post by McAfee about something before his death and that post got deleted?

If he didn't legate his coins to someone, then yes. All of his coins will be just gone forever unless someone finds the information of his wallet(s) somewhere. This is maybe not a good feature of Bitcoin but we have nothing to do about it now.

Sadly, his all crypto become obsolete after his death. Because he might not share private keys to anyone. to overcome this There should be system of nominee if anyone's address is more than 2 years inactive. This is limitations in decentralisation.

I believe John McAfee has bequeathed his coins, especially his family or close people may have been told by McAfee how to access his wallet.
Because I alone have not as many coins as McAfee told my partner how to access my wallet. Moreover, McAfee who definitely has quite a lot of
coins in his wallet, he must have taken into account the possibility of inheriting them. But the problem is that McAfee is still in trouble with
the law and must be responsible to several people who have harmed by him, there is a possibility that the US government confiscated the coins
owned by McAfee.

We will probably never know for sure about this. While already in prison, John McAfee wrote on social networks that he had no money left. I am inclined to believe this, because, committing suicide (if it was really suicide), it turns out, he no longer believed in his release from prison and the lack of money should play an important role in such a decision. If, nevertheless, we assume that the money remained in his cryptocurrency, then, since he had access to the Internet and social networks from prison, then he could well transfer information about the private keys of his wallets to his family.

What I think is that if there is really crypto left then it is likely that it will remain hidden from the public eye. It might be possible that the only people who might know about the hidden crypto would be some family members or his lawyer perhaps. I doubt though if he has a lawyer since he was in the Spanish jail not in the U.S. then the lawyer might only be a lawyer/friend where he can confide secrets to, maybe paid to keep his secrets intact.

Perhaps he has some relatives or his wife who have knowledge about his crypto activities, John McAfee was a smart guy and must have taken care of things like that during his lifetime, I still can't believe the guy is dead, as much as many dislike his kind of person he still did among those who push crypto awareness and promote it in his own way without any fear, I doubt John will let his crypto assets waste away like a lost treasure without hinting any close relatives or friends.

If that's the case then I feel pity for his family. Let's say that they have enough wealth to survive but Mcafee's coin isn't a small amount so it should've been helping his entire family in so many ways. That's actually one of the reasons why we're always advised to trust at least a single person about our personal funds and wallet keys so we'll know where our funds would go if unexpected things happen.

He is a rich man, he is also a smart person and he is a businessman.
I am not really sure about what he is doing to secure his asset. But, I am pretty sure that he has set or prepared all probabilities that will happen to him and set several ways to make his asset secured enough even he has died. He may have given it to his family or other people who are trusted to manage all his wealth.
It can be.Moreover, nowadays, there are also some features of the legacy to other people.

people like John McAfee will not waste his wealth if he dies someday (as is the current reality that he is dead). I am sure that the coins owned by Jhon McAfee will not just disappear, Jhon McAfee's wealth must have been passed on to someone or his family before he died.

None of his other family members were in talking terms with him at the time of his death. Even I have doubts on McAfee's relationship with his wife (Janice Dyson, married in 2013). Dyson is a former sex worker, and she came to contact with McAfee while she was still in the business. Dyson would claim that McAfee saved her from human traffickers, but I don't find much truth in her stories. McAfee never believed in any family responsibility. He has admitted that he fathered at least 50 children, to around two dozen different women. And he never paid a penny in maintenance to any of his offspring.

If we are to think about, the good people gone bad situation when it involves huge money/crypto. I don't think someone like McAfee will leave his asset to his lawyer or other people since Bitcoin is decentralized and every evidence to prove the BTC to be McAfee can be destroyed but if his children can send him a lovely message during fathers day celebration that McAfee have did the right thing which is not know to us before he dies

In other words a perfect father figure :P

His wife is probably set for life anyway because they had to have some cash in the house. That is of course if the IRS doesn't go after her because a person who inherits the estate also inherits debts.
It would be a funny story if a well known security expert would hold his wallet password written on a sticky note attached to his desk. It happens quite often in this profession.

always where there is very good intelligence it may do something unusual that can be done, so that it becomes something of an unconscious mindlessness. there will always be weaknesses in everyone regardless of circumstances and nature and we do not know what these weaknesses can happen and even do not realize it ourselves.

I agree that whenever there is an inheritance available it will usually also be followed by a debt owed. Moreover, his life is always with a job like that, so it's a natural thing that will happen, it's not unusual that rich people can usually have more debt than what they have

His wife can just claim that she doesn't have the private keys to access any of McAfee's cryptocurrency holdings. And as long as she doesn't convert the coins to fiat, no one will have any idea about whether she can access these coins or not. Even if she want to convert some of that to fiat, she can do it through various anonymous means. What complicates the matter further is that his wife is not a US citizen. So the US authorities may face a lot of issues in interrogating her. Recovering any remaining coins is a long shot, for now.

Man, how questionable everything is especially when reading in Twitter that apparently the guy left a note that he will never commit suicide. Heavy stuff, but may be it's all a conspiracy.

McAfee archive ... has it already been decrypted?

• https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/pdseog/mcafees_dms_has_been_switched_on_31tb_of_data/