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If you know 'John McAfee' you probably know that he is a big liar!  Once again, he proves it and proves it big time!

He said time and time again in different interviews that, if BTC price doesn't get $1M by end of 2020, he will eat his D|ck live on tv. He explained time and time again as to why BTC will go to $1M. 

But as expected from a liar, he is now backing down from his claim. His tweet:

"Eat my dick in 12 months?

A ruse to onboard new users. It worked.

Bitcoin was first. It's an ancient technology.  All know it.

Newer blockchains have privacy, smart contracts, distributed apps and more.

Bitcoin is our future?

Was the Model T the future of the automobile?"

Him calling bitcoin "ancient technology" is definitely disappointing and very ignorant of him, but let's be honest here. Realistically speaking, do you really think he would eat his meat shaft just because he lost a bet that's pretty much just sealed by oral contract? Especially on live television?

Sincerely, how many of us actually believed him that he will actually do that.. on national television. Let's be serious. Of course that his actions were manipulative and his arrogance is beyond any limits but he's free to say whatever he wants on his public page. Nevertheless I don't agree with his statement that Bitcoin is ancient technology. Internet is not ancient technology, telephone is not ancient technology so why would Bitcoin and blockchain be that?

The Bitcoin blockchain is very flexible and is a technological fountain. Many things can be built on and around it. LN and smart contracts are just small examples.

What did you expect him to do? Really to eat? Friends, there are so many charlatans on the market. McAfee is just one of them. We're talking about a person who even cheats his own country by tax. Unfortunately, there have been many people who have been listening to what this man has been saying for years.

He is just another fud'ders anymore.

I didn't believe it too. I wouldn't really wanted to see someone eat a real dick on TV that would be grose. I'm still Mcaffee fan despite all the coins he supported that were actually scam. He is still one of the bitcoin supporter that made BTC popular.  But considering BTC an ancient technology is just not right. I think he is not just fudding around anymore.

People are always making their very own prediction on what the currency might be in the years ahead and sometimes it goes well for them and at other times it just doesn't pan out. His prediction was very unrealistic considering that bitcoin highest value has only been at $20K. Bitcoin getting to $1M will take a very long time and am going to say maybe 20 to 50 years.

We all know the truth since the beginning and that he's just looking for attention all over the internet, so we should not take it seriously about all the things that he's saying, for sure he's holding large amount of Bitcoin that's why he has said that, trying to create FOMO over the interenet and make a hype.

I am sure he was not in his senses when he gave this statement of 1 million USD per bitcoin. The community must not pay any attetion to bitcoin price prediction whether its McAfee or Elon Musk.

McAfee Calls His Own $1 Million Bitcoin In 2020 Prediction a “Ruse” (https://www.newsbtc.com/2020/01/05/why-mcafee-backed-1-million-bitcoin-2020-prediction/)

Did you really expect him to eat his dick?? I mean seriously??

John Mcafee may be a mad man. He is also one of the most notable supporters of cryptocurrency. While the corporates are trying to demoralize crypto users big time, we need supporter like him around us!

One thing I disliked about him is his attempt to promote ICOs without knowing the legitimacy of it. But for bitcoin, he is a rock-solid support. His approach is probably very different than a normal human being, but he is no normal human being!

I think avikz is right, it's not like what McAfee said sounded serious. If we promised to transfer a million dollars to a well-established charity if he loses, now that would be another thing. And to be fair, even though I think there's no chance Bitcoin will be $1M by the end of the year, there are still 11 months left, so technically McAfee did not lose yet. The latest message of his, however, is of course disappointing. But not because he won't eat his dick. It's because he does not believe in Bitcoin anymore, he thinks that it's not even the future of cryptos. And I don't think he could be more wrong about that.

Right then and there I never expected too much from the guy. I believed that he was just trolling in order to gather attention to bitcoin and to himself, and that's what happened. He was a bright guy; a likeable one if you may, but his greed of money and the attention that he received worldwide changed that. He wouldn't really eat his dick on live TV, and those who think so are completely delusinal as well sans the thought of bitcoin reaching $1M in just a couple of years.

All those are just for a show, and hardly a serious talk, at all.

Frankly speaking i don't know why most of us waste the time listening to this dude anyway. He is an enthusiast for crypto mass adoption especially but i don't like his style of making all these insane price claims and later going back on his own words. I don't really give much attention to what he says about the price of bitcoin, i hodl what i can afford to lose and always take the profits when i am able to make some.

Really, did someone believe him? I ceased to take him seriously when an unbreakable wallet was hacked. Now I perceive it as Trump. The same emotional and the same idiot.

A lot of people did! He has a lot of follower. And I still remember when he calls a coin (he named as a "coin of the day), a lot of people buying that coin quickly. He was working like pump group sometimes and crowd was joining him. I never follow his call because I knew he is completly frauders.

And why would they, would they do something as nasty as that just because they said some stupid impossible prediction. The internet is a nasty place nowadays, anyone can just post anything controversial and insensible and still draw attention to themselves.

"I'll eat my D**k if bitcoin ever goes extinct", does that mean I will, well even if otherwise, it'll never happen so holy shit, my balls are saved.

It was just done to attract attention and make people listen to himself. And as far as we can see, he succeeded! We are still talking about it and his some part  ::)
I don't want to talk about his tools anymore. :-[

Old news, I heard this two weeks ago.  Here's the topic for it:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215265.0

Also, why does anyone care?  The guy is a crackpot and has no credibility left anyway.  

I respect the contribution of Mr John on the area of Cybersecurity, but his style of shilling cryptocurrencies can lead new babes to their quick grave when expectations are not meant. Don't forget he has a whole multitude of disciples across the globe.

he can influence something as a popular person, at least people's attention to bitcoin moves quite a lot when he says that sentence. When market conditions are judged to be uncertain at $ 1 million in 2020, there is nothing to trust but to look at price developments naturally, he regards it as humor and I'm sure he will repeat the same thing if bitcoin starts moving higher than now.

We never believe him when he said BTC will be $1M anyway, I seriously think there is no reason to also believe he will swallow his dick on tv. You can just ignore him when it comes to speculation now that we know he exaggerate his predictions and now he also post fud. He recently said its an ancient technology anymore which you can think of it like he didn't understood BTC  at all.

It is not a big surprise because John McAfee himself proved that he is a pathological liar and a scammer throughout his time in this space as he promoted many scams coins in the market in the past and it is a known fact that he charged $105,000 USD to promote any scam project and the countless number of investors who fell victims to his promotion. Take a look at the tokens he promoted Shivers, bezop, Simmitri, Docademic, latium, Cpollo, SAFEX and you come to a conclusion on how to trust him.

Why this person is still being discussed, as if he has a certain weight in the cryptocurrency world and can influence the market through his actions.  If every cryptocurrency user already knows that McAfee is a fraudster, then it is better not to pay attention to his statements or actions.  Or does he have an influence on what is happening?

Whether he was in in his senses or not, the guy is eccentric so I don't know why people are taking his words seriously. And we crypto enthusiast knows that the price won't simply go to $ 1 million. At least he adamantly accept the fact and we all know that no sane people are going to eat his dick anyways. He is just a crypto influencer, no more, no less.

Mc Afee is a funny fellow, and likes to command attention.
I think he is having kittens with the legions USA federal crooks on his arse.
His presidential twitter campaign is fun to watch.

He still has 11 months to go.

The bubble of 300+ trillions of global debt is gonna burst, just a matter of when.
When it does 1 million bitcoin will seem cheap.

Mc Afee has my vote!

It is because there is a lack of legit news that is interesting, everyone likes the soap opera and that is happening in the crypto market for a long time, one is proving something for a long time and some are wearing the wolf's jacket claiming to be crypto advocates but scammers to the core and we had many in the market, the reason anyone is willing to pay McAfee $105,000 USD is because of his influence in the market which is a shame.

I was surprised at people who still believed him after what he said was proven to be a lie. And because of the prediction of john mcafee
many people are disadvantaged, because he promotes a lot of shitcoins and scam projects. Now about his predictions of prices bitcoin
which will reach $ 1M, I can only smile seeing his behavior which is very embarrassing. Anyway I'm sure though he loses the bet he may
not keep his promises, because a liar his words will not be held.

He just wants to create a sensation and look for attention to us, actually he is just bragging who can not be trusted. Now he starts making statements that contradict the previous statements. So for better we just forget someone like him.

We should not trust any of this tech geek even though we know that they have established something big in life which we didn't but at the same time bitcoin does fall under their area of expertise so they should avoid loud mouthing about bitcoin and taking back on their words. We don't need to consider them seriously as we are more knowledgable in bitcoin and we need to follow our own research.

Hahaha! OP, are you disappointed because you won't witness a the spectacle of John McAfee eating his own penis, or sad that you won't be seeing a $1,000,000 price for Bitcoin?

I have been waiting for him to do what he promised us on national television. I really nearly believed in him that moment he said that but now, he is proven to be just another con man. This shows he can't really take action on what he says, a liar is always be a liar and nothing more.

It's easier for me to believe that bitcoin will cost $ 1 million than that John McAfee will eat his penis. Did anyone believe that he would keep his promise? John McAfee is used to being in the center, and it is with these statements that he achieves this.

bitcoin is not an ancient technology because so far bitcoin has experienced many improvements to the new version of the core software bitcoin during its birth.
and maybe some people will never believe again with the statements and predictions of john mcafee because i'm sure some people have been disappointed with the nonsense and behind this drama john mcafee is just looking for public attention to become famous.

I doubted it would ever be a million dollars per Bitcoin in 2020. Either the dollar value would have to crash to say a penny on the dollar for that to happen or Aliens from Outer Space would have to invade and say they are using Bitcoin for interstellar payments across the Galaxy lol. I would take everything and anything said via the Media by any so-called Prediction Gurus with a pinch of salt. As long as you got whales shorting it on Bitmex and Co, I don't expect the price of Bitcoin to go past 10-15k USD for a very long time. I prefer to be realistic and cautious and then win small as opposed to hoping BIG.

when the prediction is reached beyond his prediction, I believe he will be proud of his predictions, even he will be the best analytical expert of all time, I am also a trader who has an analysis but not that crazy, I already know the news about his setback to his bet, indeed it would not make sense, so I never believed in him and invited other people not to listen to this old man because at one time he could be senile and forget his memories, lol
but I bet $ 100k for 2021 right away

I also don't believe that bitcoin will reach $1million at the end of 2020. I'm anticipating what will he do at the end of the year but doesn't really expect him to eat his dick. That's gross. But what I'm anticipating if he's a man of his words. Though he looks like he is not. Rather than taking this man seriously, I just find him funny with what he's saying and how he will face everyone.

Do you think that he will do it at first place? That is pure stupidity if he will do it :D.

He is super optimistic at that time that he said that phrase which is we know impossible to do and now he backs down from it as he saw that the $1M price of Bitcoin right now is impossible to reach this year :D. To be honest when I heard his statement about this years ago, I just ignored it and said to myself "Nonsense stupid. You can't do it" and what I said happened. He can't do it. Just move on with this stupid shit. He is like Faketoshi. They are both stupid shitters.

John is good at exaggerating things maybe just to get the attention he is seeking. Nobody in his right mind should be taking all the words he is issuing to be true or will be true. He is a marketer, and he might be believing that any publicity (even the bad ones) are still publicity. Now, compared to Mr. Craig Wright, I would still prefer to have John anytime. At least, we have here a man who is a strong believer in Bitcoin that he is willing to eat his thing live but of course he is just taking us for a ride.

Once upton a time, if John McAfee tweets about a coin, the token/coin moons. He loss relevance really fast because of tweets and predictions like. Now no one listens to him.

His $1m Bitcoin claim and many of his predictions are just talks not backed by any TA or analysis. I would have loved to see it come true though

Look at his twitter account, Is a big disaster what he constantly tweets about, look at each year whats he says to the bitcoin-related news channels that you will see that Is another disaster he says to the bitcoin-related news channels . he was able to talk about time travel, created an exchange that I don't even know if it still works or not and talked about running for president of the USA

Because he's famous in the tech world for starting the McAfee antivirus software in the 1990's.

Sadly, bitcoiners are desperate for famous people and gurus to endorse cryptocurrency, so when people like McAfee make claims, it's big news and plastered everywhere. Of course endorsements like his do more harm than good, but that's what comes of being dependent on celebrity endorsements.

It's because he's famous enough to manipulate people and since he knows that it will probably his reputation as well his dignity that's why he changed his mind, we can clearly see that he's just trying to take advantage of that opportunity to deceive people. He don't deserve people's trust because he can't even stand his own statement which means he can't fight for himself. Although, it depends on a person's choice whether to trust and believe his words and promises. What can we expect on someone who was trying to make a scene to captures people's attention? let's just focus on much more important things, he don't deserve our time and effort because in the end he will just suffer the consequences of his actions and decisions.

The community must stop following price prediction coming from different people. I never take such predictions serious, since they are totally insane. With government opposition getting stronger and stronger , I dont think BTC can go that high.

Someone would really back out from that claim because that's one of heck speculation.
Only some fool would believe that. as far as I know, after this year's halving there will be
a major change in price of the BTC and 100% it's not going to be $1M like He said.

He's prediction is a little bit too far from reality that is why he has no other option but to back out from his words as there is no hope for him that Bitcoin will reach to that price by the end of this year.

Eating his d!ck while being broadcasted in TV is not an easy option for him especially that he will surely do it if he will not back out from his words. If he just did it to hype the price, I guess he again make a bad decision to call Bitcoin as an ancient technology as he knows to his self that Bitcoin has a future.

It's not quite that simple, because there's an extra step involved.  People in the community follow the media and the media need to post sensationalist headlines because it's seemingly the only way they know how to get attention.  We need the media to stop glorifying baseless price predictions, because that's what causes people to think it's important.  It's not important, yet they keep reporting it.  But, chances are, they probably won't stop, because they generally aren't well informed enough to report on technical matters.  Plus the technical side probably doesn't yield as much click-bait traffic as the mindless speculation articles do.  

Yeah ,I did not believe on what he is saying that he will gonna eat it, and at same time bitcoin will hit that price. It is too good to be true, maybe it is more possiblw for bitcoin to reach $20000 but now with that price like what he is saying. It only makes people believe and hoping for that. We should not be believe easily without a proof.

Even if the prediction is for 2025 it's still illogical to say that bitcoin gonna be priced at $1M. This person is just seeking attention and by doing some stupid speculation like that he succesfully get the attention but I'm sure no one gonna trust him anymore. He's just a pretentious trying to act as if he knows everything but the reality he just some opportunist seeking for chance to make profit out of the controversial.

He's a complete lunatic. With lots of Twitter followers. Trying to get BTC to pump n dump it on his followers. I was a fan n now I kind of stop buying btc. He's coked up with ketamine laced. Can't believe a word. Long history involving this guy.

He's just too hyping over the internet, thinking he can make us fool and can manipulate a lot of people, he's thinking it is possible if thousands of his follower can buy Bitcoin so he can sold his own holdings. For sure he has a lot of it, so he needs to make hype and take advantage of it.

Funny, from the beginning I already knew that it was all lies. On-board new users? How the heck did he even know that his tweet got users to Bitcoin? I stopped believing the things he says after he claimed to know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, and to reveal his identity.

But after a while, he came back to say that he won’t be revealing the identity of Satoshi because he’s afraid of law suit lol, like he wasn’t aware of that from the beginning? He’s just a big liar and I even unfollowed him on Twitter, he’s dumb. I hate it when people are fond of making wrong speculations and trying to deceive others. It’s better to just keep shut.

I wish you were as famous as John McAfee) Then your forecast about the price of bitcoin for 2021 was heard by many. And so it will get lost on the forum and no one will remember it in a year. But if the price of bitcoin ever reaches the value of $ 1 million, everyone will remember that McAfee was the first to predict such a cost.

After 2017, I stopped following this liar crypto expert! I don't know why still people care about his tweets, where most of the time he spreads lie! Therefore it was known, that tweet was just showing how confident he was about Bitcoin in the next couple of years. But this is hurt that he said Blockchain is an ancient technology, which is absolutely false and it proved there is nothing special to follow him!

It was clear from the beginning. The louder guys like him get, the less people want to listen to his nonsence

In my eyes it was the end of John when I started seeing his srunk and stoned rants in public. He wa clearly not fit to speak but he did it anyway.
Then he made pumping shitcoins his business. Who cares that some people will lose money. You want him to promote a shitcoin with his name just send him 100k or whatever his price was at the time. Don't trust people who will lie for money because he will also do it for free, you can bet on it.

if he had a little bit of self respect left, he would simply say that he was wrong in speculation!! Instead, he is just saying he intentionally lied!

I just hate him seeing this clown's face  :-[

I don't think anyone from the crypto community believed in his words. He just deceived newbie investors into the crypto, but I don't think it succeeded as much as he expected. It's harder to believe such statements from any celebrity now as most of us have understood the real meaning of them.

It is expected that he will turned down what he promise before, he keep predicting unrealistic outcome. I still do not have care about him because he is just a clown in the social media. I never believed on what he say, he is a ingonarant person who keep saying his opinion where he really do not understand what he is saying to public. It is a proof that we should not easily believe on someones prediction because it is just pure guess without any analysis and back up studies.

i agree no one will really do it, especially in live television
that guy just wants to create hype at that time for some extra money
so it's really best to stay away from those who make speculation without basis and called herself a crypto enthusiast.

We should be hoping! To help us plebs be distracted, and to help cope with our disappointment for not being get rich quick millionaires. Look at OP's disappointment! Hahaha.

This liar not only lied about bitcoin.  He now started bashing the bitcoin.  everyone should just ignore him and not to give any value whatsover to his words..

 In his recent tweet he is saying:

"Whichever Bitcoin Maximalist came up with the term "Shitcoin" for all other coins;

Was brilliant.

But we all know that the future of Crypto rests with the Alt Coins.

Bitcoin -

Old, clunky, no security, no smart contracts, no DAPs ....

Is the true Shitcoin."

Can't blame ignorance sometime. Every bit of social medium such as Twitter is very lucrative for these kind of clowns. I remember how Mcafee supports btc as it goes down during the midst of 2018 and 2019.

But hearing that he is now against it and calling btc an ancient technology is a hard foul for crypto enthusiasts. Maybe that's what we can called jumping ship from hidden gem coin into shitcoin lovers.

How many projects did he shill on Twitter for some quick back money? I can't say, but the one I remember is Bob project which is now in the brick of dying. Good luck to you Mcafee hope you can still find supporters for your shitty dex.

What else do you expect him to do? He made false claims and now everyone knows, so he’s going to look for something else to say, just like he did after realizing that he won’t be able to expose who Satoshi Nakamoto was, and he then decide to claim that he might be sued for exposing him. His latest tweet is that he used the same method that was used to predict the 2017 bull run to arrive at his $1 million prediction. After that, he concluded by saying that Bitcoin is the real definition of a shit coin and not altcoins.

Let us not bother to these kind of people as they are not adding any value to this space through their speculations. I was thinking these celebrates are helping cryptos to spread through their fan-base but they are ruining the fame of cryptos with wrong statements and predictions.