[2020-06-01] McAfee backs down from wild Bitcoin $1 million price prediction

[bbc.reporter]

@Lucius. When did he make that statement mentioned in the article, however? He never admitted that it was a joke only an idiot would believe until I read the article.
Also, do you reckon that it was only a joke from the beginning? It appeared to me that he thought his own rubbish would become real hehehe.

Well he actually admitted it, unless someone wants to interpret it differently - but for me personally everything is said in this tweet :


https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1213839069681205254

I would personally interpret this tweet as an indirect shilling for shitcoins. I guess McAfee already sold his soul fully to shilling shitcoins even prior to him making this tweet.

Unfortunately, many shitcoin shills such as this man are doing their dirty acts at the expense of Bitcoin. These ingrate sprouts of whatever Bitcoin has achieved seem to create their significance by discrediting Bitcoin itself.

I however, would interpret it as someone who knows that he has made a great fool of himself in front of millions of people. Who would follow his advice or pay him to shill shitcoins and scam tokens now?

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[Lucius]

Man ruined his reputation with his statement about Bitcoin.

I however, would interpret it as someone who knows that he has made a great fool of himself in front of millions of people. Who would follow his advice or pay him to shill shitcoins and scam tokens now?

Everyone has the right to interpret information in their own way, but I would not agree here that he made a fool of himself. What he did was just (for him) one very clever business move that earned him probably millions of dollars, playing the card of people’s naivety. It should also not be overlooked that people have a very short memory, and that he still has a very large number of followers who have not stopped being his fans.

Consequently, he is far from going to the margins of the crypto world - because there are always those who can be seduced with a little good marketing and nicely packaged promises.

[Betwrong]

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We probably shouldn't be giving him publicity, but it might be worth it just for everyone to realize he's just a clown; it might save a few folks from falling for his dirty pump and dumps.

I think we shouldn't be afraid of giving additional publicity to some "clowns"(I'm sure you can name a few), because we are not in the world of pop culture where any publicity, good or bad, is actually good for an artist or a group. It doesn't work like that in the world of finance ... Well, at least it shouldn't. There are always some exceptions.

Anyways, now he opted for some weird strategy for promoting his new creation:



Although, whether it's his creation is a big question. PIVX developers claim that GHOST whitepaper was vastly plagiarized from an outdated 2018 PIVX whitepaper.

[gentlemand]

Someone who is considered to be smart if makes this type of statements then surely people would not be looking upto him for the future course of action. Also, when you become a known face your words should be more responsible and carefully spoken so that this types of situation and better to research so that the understand also increases.

In a normal world this would be the case, crypto is not a normal world.

To me he kind of encapsulates the whole thing pretty neatly. He hasn't achieved anything. He doesn't make or develop anything. Nothing he has touched has been a success. But he manages to make a lot of noise and give a lot of people erections even though they know deep down they're going to wind up getting fucked.

That's most shitcoins in a nutshell right there.

[Kakmakr]

This guy probably had a few coins he wanted to sell, but he wanted to sell at a higher price... so what does his drug induced brain tell him... well I guess it will go something like this :

McAfee talking to himself : " Damn I need to sell a few coins, gotta pay for the booze and drugs.. but it's expensive, so the price needs to be higher... what can I do? Ah!! .... I hyped up a few Alt coins on social media... what if I say I will cut off my dick if the price does not go to a million dollars.. my followers will believe anything I say and then they will start buying.

Reality : The Bitcoin price did not react at all, so he sold anyway.. and now he is saying people who believed him was gullible and Bitcoin is crap. (He probably has no bitcoins left and he is hyping a new Alt coin)