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Since it seems that early adopters are dropping like flies, I feel obligated to ask whether there was any indication of John McAfee being a Bitcoin user.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/12/2016247/john-mcafee-accused-of-murder-wanted-by-belize-police

Really, dude, when is it that you gonna stop trying to link every alleged murderer with bitcoin when no such connection exists or was ever hinted?
What's your agenda?

Forum sliding?

Wow I did not know that McAfee Antivirus is named after real person John McAfee. I thought it is named after McCofee or something that!

The website in question might not be Silk Road forums. At least I don't remember thread about "bath salt" purification. So if it is not darknet forum then nothing suggests as him being a early Bitcoin adopter.

It is no surprise that IT nerds can kill someone IRL. Hans Reiser also killed his mail-order wife. They are really nasty and have shorter warranties than recertified harddrives.

Oh good, psy is here to troll.

psy, if you read my post again, perhaps run it through Google Translate this time, you can see that I didn't connect him to Bitcoin.  I asked a question.  I can ask interesting questions here.  Because it's a web forum, not a fucking press release.

Once again, psy, your poor grasp of English has led you to gloss over the actual meaning of this thread and launch straight into troll mode.

Is it just questions you have difficulty with?  You're Portuguese, right?

¿What if I start asking questions this way, would that help you to differentiate between questions and statements of fact?

Obviously, as a Bitcoin user, I'm concerned about high-profile early adopters being picked-off by criminal gangs of all stripes, even those masquerading as governments.  I've been concerned about this since last year around this time, when LulzSec was busy hacking Bitcoin services under the direction of the FBI.

If nothing else, it affects Bitcoin's valuation.

And you should be concerned too, frankly.  Though I'm pretty convinced that you're not an actual Bitcoin user anyways.  So, proceed to troll, then, I guess.

bitcoins and murder?! no way..

He's a news journalist?

McAfee Antivirus always struck me as the product of a deranged, criminal mind.

Next will be Eugene Kaspersky killing Vladimir Putin :D His Kaspersky Internet Security suite also is deranged so must be Kaspersky himself. And Kaspersky's presentations in conferences and press releases are spreading only FUD among computer (L)users.

And I forgot to mention Dr. Norton. Norton Antivirus is demented by lightyears. Killing some random person will be too small for Dr. Norton. He might attempt genocide to get proportions right.

Interesting interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAXbUXd_CFE) in which McAfee claims to have been clean from drugs and alcohol for years, that Belize officials are trying to extort money from him, and that his posts on the Russian drug forum were obvious jokes about a mythical sex drug.

Also, some very interesting discussion of the history of Belize, and pirates.  :)

That would be Spanish...

I don't care, McAfee anti-virus sucks anyways... It goes around disappearing your files without consulting the user first.

And they poisoned his dogs. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-12/mcafee-founder-is-suspect-in-murder-of-american-ex-pat-in-belize.html)

I think he's a little batshit crazy.

He's back, and guess what? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM51_LXblYk

If I were CEO of Microsoft I would:

• Fire almost everybody (because Microsoft's thinking is now archaic)
• Not have dinner with Bill Gates
• Tell content creators to find a new way to make money

What a peculiar person.

Huh. I kind of like that. ... A lot. Trying to stop Bitcoin is like trying to stop gunpowder.

well peculiar yes, but he seems to have some hilarious self-irony:

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3yTWkN3fI

How can you not love John? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

isn't he inventing some crypto device at the moment?

He knows and uses bitcoin in my opinion.

John sold his anti-virus company decades ago.

Have to respect the man - he is onto other things, namely a "private" internet.

C2C has an updated interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGsHpcEYg8I


and here his take on the Obamacare website mess:

http://www.whoismcafee.com/john-mcafee-and-alex-jones-live-10-21-13/

I used to see that name and think 'firewall, security, anti-virus'

Now it's 'murder, meth-head, wanted'

Amazing how rapid technology changes these days. ;)

He's re-inventing himself again.

No, it's just McAfee who is changing so quickly. I wonder when the movie about his life will come out?

This is exactly the kind of shit government loyalists wrote about Assange and Snowden, why would McAfee be any different? They're one of the few people in the world to actively stand up against these bomb crazy assholes with access to Nukes so I'm not surprised they're treating him like a maniac too.

I loved how Snowden's own dad got on camera and berated him about his decision >_> I'm not surprised people become terrorists these days.