Did John McAfee just lose credibility as security researcher?

[b4h4mu7]

As we all noticed, John McAfee is promoting Verge as a legitmate cryptocurrency in the privacy vertical. I looked into their project and it took about 30 seconds to find out that all they offer is transmission privacy via TOR or i2p..

Bitcoin has offered TOR support since 2011/2012..

Anoncoin has offered i2p support since 2014..

That said, where is the innovation? There's no sender, receiver or transaction value privacy mechanisms.. On top of that the dev is censorsing any mention of privacy protocols i.e. Zerocash, Zercoin, Cryptonote, etc.. on the grounds that it's shilling other projects. Is it not justified to bring these protocols up in his thread? Especially one that is branding itself as:

XVG - "The Standard in Privacy Based Crypto"

or as their website puts it:

"A Secure and Anonymous Cryptocurrency with a focus on Privacy"

So as the title says: did John McAfee just ruin his reputation as a security researcher for pumping a shitcoin?

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[criticalcrypto]

Mcafee lost all credibility when he got into a shootout with police and paid women to shit in his mouth

 

[generalizethis]

Mcafee lost all credibility when he got into a shootout with police and paid women to shit in his mouth

 

To be fair, that doesn't diminish his security rep as much as backing verge. Verge bolted on TOR and claimed it made them the best privacy coin--as if on-chain anonymity wasn't the important or hard part and failing to acknowledge that anyone can do this to any coin themselves if they aren't completely inept. It's as though the verge devs took a shit in our mouths and called it chocolate. If you are investing in verge based on their security claims or McCaffe's endorsement, you really shouldn't be investing in crypto at all--you don't know how it works and you're likely investing in dogshit.