Forecast John McAfee $500,000

[zasad@]

Do you all remember this tweet?

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887011985732362244


https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887024683379544065



http://dickening.com/
"If the price of Bitcoin has not reached One Million Dollars by December 31st, 2020,
John McAfee has promised to eat his own dick on National Television."

That's how big promises end!


https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1266734176235126785

[Bttzed03]

Yep. I actually created this same topic and locked it after 7 pages of comments. I can reopen it if you want to add something.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5262988.msg54820266#msg54820266

[rhomelmabini]

Who wouldn't remember that silly prediction it's totally absurd as him maybe he let it slipped so the whole world wouldn't see he hasn't have some balls.

That forecast is likely to be given for the next 30 years maybe.

[stomachgrowls]

All of us do remember this Tweet but it seems people dont care anymore yet its impossible for him to do such thing and also
he already make up some dramas just for some diversion.What you think?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/worthless-coin-mcafee-says-he-never-believed-bitcoin-would-hit-1m
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2020/01/07/john-mcafee-reneges-on-promise-to-eat-his-dick-if-bitcoin-fails-to-hit-1m/

[jossiel]

Everybody remembers that forecast that he made. But we're all grown up after 3 years and understood that he has said it for attention. Probably he has sold his stash already and doesn't want to interfere anymore unlike before.

The challenge of "IF" won't be happening, he has admitted it.

But let's all move forward and go to a more realistic scenario for bitcoin which is being talked lately for the price of $100k.

[LogitechMouse]

When I read this tweet, I'm still at the time when I'm learning Bitcoin and crypto in general so I didn't give any attention to the forecast he made but what made me laugh is that he will eat his dick when it will not happen.

Well he made the tweet, admitted that he is wrong and he will not do what he promised because that is pure stupidity if he will do it and take note in National Television. He is just predicting too like one of us and its just that he got over-exaggerated with his prediction. Lets just focus into when this will happen or at least when will be the ATH be reached again since that is more realistic right now.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

That forecast is likely to be given for the next 30 years maybe.

My own tired, cynical opinion would probably be exactly like the above except that I betcha bitcoin will hit $500k within the next 30 years.  McAfee is nutty for making a prediction and bet like this, but he's just got the time frame wrong.  And honestly, I wouldn't want to see bitcoin hit a ridiculous price like $500k in just several years.  Any rational investor would realize that those kinds of gains aren't sustainable.

But we're all grown up after 3 years and understood that he has said it for attention.

Yeah, just like all the other prominent bitcoiners with large platforms who make extreme predictions--they might believe what they're saying, but it's far more likely they're making a prediction in order to keep their name relevant.  I tend to just tune out crap like this.

But let's all move forward and go to a more realistic scenario for bitcoin which is being talked lately for the price of $100k.

Hate to say it, but I think that price is even too high to hit unless we're talking about a ten-year time frame.  Remember, the state of the economy is far from certain and it isn't looking too healthy.  In order to get bitcoin up to $100k, there would have to be a ton of buying.  If people are still out of work, that just isn't going to happen.  But we shall see.

[mk4]

Though it was already obvious from the get-go, John McAfee already admitted that he did it for publicity reasons. He even called Bitcoin "ancient technology" and "worthless" lul.

No matter how much of a huge nutjob he is though, gotta admit— I think his publicity stunt worked. Though he got a lot of people talking about Bitcoin(most likely in a negative manner), any publicity is good publicity.



https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1213839069681205254
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1284670520320036864

[meanwords]

The good old days of McAfee. The days of shilling and promoting his own agenda. Now he is nothing more than a joke at this point to this community to be honest. He's pretty bold calling Bitcoin worthless after profiting from it.

He even said that he will do it at the end of 2020 (News here). lol

[mk4]

The good old days of McAfee. The days of shilling and promoting his own agenda. Now he is nothing more than a joke at this point to this community to be honest. He's pretty bold calling Bitcoin worthless after profiting from it.

His days of shilling ain't done. He's now shilling this "ghost" thing after hopping from project to project. It's just that him shilling certain altcoins doesn't pump the prices as much compared to how it used to be like in 2018.

Funnily enough, he calls his project "decentralized" but yet his name is literally in their domain and in the project name.

[meanwords]

His days of shilling ain't done. He's now shilling this "ghost" thing after hopping from project to project. It's just that him shilling certain altcoins doesn't pump the prices as much compared to how it used to be like in 2018.

Funnily enough, he calls his project "decentralized" but yet his name is literally in their domain and in the project name.

I see. That's probably why he is calling Bitcoin worthless now to promote his new coin. I bet he's going to add more negative statement about Bitcoin while trying to glorify this "decentralized" project of his.

[seoincorporation]

Would be nice to see him eating hit own dick on national televition, ozzy osbourne and marilyn manson would be kids one side of John McAfee...

To bad it doesn't happens and he had to say it was only a joke, but to be honest McAffee is a joke and we all know it.

[jossiel]

But we're all grown up after 3 years and understood that he has said it for attention.

Yeah, just like all the other prominent bitcoiners with large platforms who make extreme predictions--they might believe what they're saying, but it's far more likely they're making a prediction in order to keep their name relevant.  I tend to just tune out crap like this.

I hate to say it but IIRC, I sort a believed that prediction and pushed my emotion that we'll be there. Anyways, I have to move on and just look into the reality today, I don't want to look at it anymore.  

But let's all move forward and go to a more realistic scenario for bitcoin which is being talked lately for the price of $100k.

Hate to say it, but I think that price is even too high to hit unless we're talking about a ten-year time frame.  Remember, the state of the economy is far from certain and it isn't looking too healthy.  In order to get bitcoin up to $100k, there would have to be a ton of buying.  If people are still out of work, that just isn't going to happen.  But we shall see.

The predictions ended up with that price because of the s2f model but I'm not an expert although love to read things if it's about predictions with analysis. Yeah, hard to believe but we'll see if it comes and hoping it will although not by this year or next few years but hopefully it will.

[Darker45]

The good old days of McAfee. The days of shilling and promoting his own agenda. Now he is nothing more than a joke at this point to this community to be honest. He's pretty bold calling Bitcoin worthless after profiting from it.

You don't take this man seriously. The man is a joke and he seems to be enjoying and living it quite well. It's either the man is YOLOing or just haven't received enough attention yet until now. Either way, the joke's on us if his childish antics would still evoke certain emotions from us. I guess he's silently laughing at people who take his statements seriously and get piqued.

[Twinkledoe]

Yep. I actually created this same topic and locked it after 7 pages of comments. I can reopen it if you want to add something.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5262988.msg54820266#msg54820266

Yes, I don't think we need so many threads for this McAfee drama. We already know about his stunts. This is what McAfee wants, attention from the public and continuous discussion about his life. This is the reason why there are still some crap projects that hire his endorsement because of the popularity of him in crypto, though not in a good way actually.

[smyslov]

Yep. I actually created this same topic and locked it after 7 pages of comments. I can reopen it if you want to add something.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5262988.msg54820266#msg54820266

Yes, I don't think we need so many threads for this McAfee drama. We already know about his stunts. This is what McAfee wants, attention from the public and continuous discussion about his life. This is the reason why there are still some crap projects that hire his endorsement because of the popularity of him in crypto, though not in a good way actually.

And yet still many developers believe in his credibility YouEngine had him in their announcement and bounty campaign I don't know if this is negative or positive, many developers still think McAfee still some followers who believes in everything he shill, when his biggest achievement and flopped is his 1 million dollar challenge or his dick

[piebeyb]

he retracts his words, I often see that old man making nonsense, so don't listen to him anymore, even though I've been waiting for that he eats his own cock, lol
now no one wants to listen to him, even he made a project called Ghost, I didn't touch it and wasn't interested in seeing it

[Agios]

However, not until the end of 2020, on (30 May 2020)
McAfee said that his prediction was an absurd humor.

Are you one of those who doesn't see absurd humor in it? If Bitcoin reaches US $ 1 million, then its market capitalization will be greater than the GDP of all countries in the North American region. What kind of fool could believe such nonsense?

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1266734176235126785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1266738999202394113%7Ctwgr%3%A&refohn_url=httm.id3Fee-chain.id about-price-bitcoin-us1-million-is-humor% 2F

[pooya87]

the deadline has already passed and he hasn't still eaten his "deal" on national television in was in July and he is now hiding under a rock playing with his "deal" while rolling around in all the money he scammed newbies in 2017 when he made that statement just to gain publicity and rip newbies off.
there is a website with a countdown till the end of the year called "dickening" or something like that too that is counting the days until McAfee runs out of time to perform the "task"...

McAfee said that his prediction was an absurd humor.

yeah it was also very humorous when he was scamming all the newcomers in 2017 with all the obviously scam ICOs the kept shoving down their throats because he was paid to do so.

[btc_angela]

he retracts his words, I often see that old man making nonsense, so don't listen to him anymore, even though I've been waiting for that he eats his own cock, lol
now no one wants to listen to him, even he made a project called Ghost, I didn't touch it and wasn't interested in seeing it

By now we already know what John McAfee is up to, I mean that is 2017, wherein the market is just on a bull run and there's a lot of irrational buyers specially on bitcoin market and then he made his prediction. And people think back then that he was the real deal. LOL. Damn, many noobs really fall for it, and then he became a so called crypto influencer, and then he said that his twitter account was hack etc. etc. But nevertheless, no one is really believing him today, probably making some decent money, but unlike 3 years ago wherein he can command 6 digits just for mentioning some shitcoins on his twitter.