John "fucking" McAfee: I will reveal Satoshi

[panjay]

It's coming from the man who said he is fucking (sexually mind you) some whale in the certain island.

Hard for me to trust him, but if he keeps his promise to eat his own dick in national TV if bitcoin price was lower than his prediction I will consider it, well it's not like I hate money but yeah I admit it's must hilarious to see it.

[Konijn]

John McAfee claims to know the identity of Satoshi and has made several twitter posts suggesting he will reveal the identity if the they do not reveal themselves.

I don't know if he really knows who he is, but he is probably the most credible person to come forwards claiming to know or be him.

John McAfee, credible?

Like the way he does paid promotional tweets to pump altcoins? Or maybe you're referring to his plan to eat his dick on live television? Or the way he was suspected of a gruesome murder a few years ago and was found civilly liable for the man's death?

Sounds like a really credible dude. It's too bad the Craig Wright debacle shows these sorts of lies can go a lot further than one might expect.

"That itself is not really difficult with the string of charlatans who have pretended in the past,"

Credible compared to the others, that's not to say he's credible himself.

Don't get me wrong, anyone who knows a little about John McAfee knows the guy is a looney and an egotist.

Anyone who has seen "Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6071534/ ) knows just how much of a nutcase he is [spoiler]real life john wick[/spoiler]

So I'm not saying he's a credible person by any means but let's give the man the credit he deserves. he wrote McAfee AV in 1987~ back when that was impressive and ran it until 1997 when he sold and made millions.

He was also really bitter with his departure from McAfee and how they controlled the company when he sold his majority shares. He wanted to discredit the company by giving himself bad PR because the name of the AV is linked to his name and he thought he could destroy the company by acting insane... I think he did too many drugs though and stopped pretending at some point.

The point is... he obviously isn't stupid and it is possible through his work that he may have made the connections needed to know, and it's entirely possible it's just john being john. I just thought people might be interested. And as someone else said, reading the comments on his posts he does seem serious about it. I guess we'll see in a few days :popcorn:

[aad140386]

It seems to me that this is another PR from McAfee. In many of his statements, there were false or unrealized predictions that disappointed many of the people who previously believed him. I am not negative about McAfee, but I don’t have any positive feelings for him either. He, like hundreds of analysts and forecasters of the market just like him, just catches the HYIP on the topic of the crypto and everything connected with it. I do not think this is right, but I do not condemn them. But personally, I do not think that McAfee knows who Satoshi really is. And it seems to me that Satoshi is not one person, but a whole team of developers who came up with the embodiment of their creation in the person of one person.

[kano]

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How do I know about Satoshi?

Yes, I drink, use drugs, chase women, run from the law - which I have done since I was 19. But it does not obviate the fact that I created a great company whose focus was stopping hackers. I had to know hacking. I am still John Fucking McAfee,

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Ha ha so funny.

His company's focus was to make money, not to stop hackers.

That's why the anti-virus software doesn't stop all viruses, it ONLY stops known viruses.
By his design he made it so that he would have a continuous stream of money coming in - you need all the updates all the time.

I've no idea why some people think anything positive about him.

[Konijn]

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How do I know about Satoshi?

Yes, I drink, use drugs, chase women, run from the law - which I have done since I was 19. But it does not obviate the fact that I created a great company whose focus was stopping hackers. I had to know hacking. I am still John Fucking McAfee,

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Ha ha so funny.

His company's focus was to make money, not to stop hackers.

That's why the anti-virus software doesn't stop all viruses, it ONLY stops known viruses.
By his design he made it so that he would have a continuous stream of money coming in - you need all the updates all the time.

I've no idea why some people think anything positive about him.

McAfee’s VirusScan was one of the first antivirus programs, but the initial version simply scanned files and the boot sector for known byte-strings of viruses — essentially doing a binary version of the Unix “grep” utility, which dates back to 1974.

The same year that McAfee released VirusScan, the first two heuristic antiviruses were released; four years later, F-PROT released the first modern heuristic engine.

So not only did he create one of the first anti-virus programs, he actually did the opposite of what you said and tried to make it detect viruses that they didn't know the signatures/checksums for.

Edit: Misread the quote, he may not have pioneered heuristics for AV but McAfee AV and almost all modern AV these days have such things - which obviously are not fool proof.

[senne]

All these bullshit claims by people. If anyone knew about Satoshi, we have had his identity already. What is better to get publicity and pump the prices of coins by revealing the identity of Satoshi. John McAfee has always been a troll. He's earning good through then why not. I guess with all these rumours, shit remarks and tweets, he would have earned billions. This guy hold no credibility whatsoever to me.

[lyks15]

I really don't know what the real score or logic why bitcoiner is so eager to know who is Satoshi. So many blogs pointing who is Satoshi, someone are already claiming that he is Satoshi. Even we know and we meet him I think nothing will change. You don't have get any income if you meet him so I think we need to focus only in activity that we can earn.

[Nadziratel]

I bet he can't do anything. If he had or could find out who Satoshi was, he had already said so in a magazine. He would have found a way to turn this over for money.

[rahmatullah9305]

McAfee took to Twitter to spread the word that he would out the mysterious Bitcoin creator if Satoshi didn’t come forward and reveal himself first.Does McAfee know who Satoshi is? The smart money is almost certainly on no, but as ever with John, his background,The cryptocurrency world is split on the possible revelation of Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity. While the intrigue surrounding Satoshi Nakamoto is ever present, many are afraid it could lead to an array of negative results for Bitcoin.

[yatsey87]

I don't know if he really knows who he is, but he is probably the most credible person to come forwards claiming to know or be him. That itself is not really difficult with the string of charlatans who have pretended in the past, but it is entirely possible given his past that he does know and again entirely possible this is just another John McAfee PR stunt.

John McAfee credible? Does not compute. McAfee would say anything as long as you paid him to do so. He's either trolling or is on under the influence of drugs, but either way he only has his own interests heart so he's only saying this for his own agenda whatever that may be. I would say with a strong degree of certainty that he doesn't know who satoshi is. He's probably just doing this for the attention to be honest. He's built his brand these last ten years or so by courting controversy and getting his name in the media and this is along the lines of the same sort of shtick he's always done.

[carlisle1]

Why Craig Wright and John McAfee after the 10 years celebration of bitcoin finally claiming to be a Satoshi Nakamoto and the other one knows who is Satoshi Nakamoto?is this really relevant or just for publicity?sorry but i a, really confused on what’s happening now.they can do this damn claim from the start or atleast after 5 years since bitcoin is already famous that time but took this long

[fuathan]

It is really sad that he is only a celebrity with almost zero knowledge about market dynamics. He is a technical guy but has no understanding of how the economy works. His predictions are not logical and we all know he failed with his predictions many times in the last bull.

[sehoon]

It sounds interesting but I just wanna ask what's the point of knowing who Satoshi is? What are the disadvantes and advantages of knowing this guy? And I wonder where he will get the evidences on who Satoshi is. Anyway, for me knowing and not knowing this guy, is just fine. We really don't have to know who he/she is.

[KingScorpio]

People should stop giving this man attention, he's just spreading bullshit, if he knows who satoshi is he should reveal it right away and not make a sequel to his twitter post, he didn't even re-read his post just misspell a word, showing he is just shitposting in his twitter account like he usually do.

i wont blame him if he would reveal his satoshi, and shortly after that his satoshi will reveal his satoshi vision token

if that happens i laugh myself an entire day.

[BitBustah]

Mcafee is off his rocker, I mean this dude is really insane.  Don't believe anything he says, this guy is just an attention seeker that is fueled by heavy drugs.  He is a smart guy for starting his antivirus company but that doesn't mean he has any morals.

[joshy23]

Atlast i will be having a chance to know whos the real Satoshi Nakamoto .for sure this woll bring another breakthrough for this great community as the revelation of the greatest man on earth will happen.but the question is do McAfee is reliable for this very secured information?well the community will answer for this and not only me 😜😜😜

[KingScorpio]

Atlast i will be having a chance to know whos the real Satoshi Nakamoto .for sure this woll bring another breakthrough for this great community as the revelation of the greatest man on earth will happen.but the question is do McAfee is reliable for this very secured information?well the community will answer for this and not only me 😜😜😜

the new satoshi will of course come with his true vision of bitcoin, invest in it!!! it will start like bitcoin sv at 100 usd.  

you cant even imagine the longterm negative effects for certain instances of the current cryptoindustry what marketing scemes like these will have

you will simply not be taken serious anymore

[tsaroz]

I don't think John mcAffe has any more creditability than the imposter Craig wright. Though there could be some people who personally knows satoshi nakamoto like theymos or cobra or some early Bitcoin developers but I highly doubtful satoshi would be in contact with someone like McAfee.

[sctunter]

john macAfee it just seeker attention. after a lot of peoples hate him because some signal from him that not valid now he become like this. and satoshi nakamoto should be anonym. no need to know about his identity

[Jating]

Lol, we all know that John McAfee loves attention. His persona is like that, so everyone should not be surprised. The guy is eccentric, borderline wacko and now see another good opportunity to make another controversial statement so the guy is doing it again.

I wouldn't take him seriously though, but he always gives us a good chuckle,