Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Commits Suicide

[Cling18]

I thought he died because of illness. If that's true the  that's really heartbreaking news. Although it wouldn't affect the market, as a human, we'll still feel sad that he ended his life for fear and depression. I think it's because of the threats that he's been hearing and the frustrations that he has in life. It will surely be a hard thing for his family to handle but I hope that they'll be able to surpass it.

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[blockman]

Now that John is dead, on the day he died, people sold the token for profit.  I don't know what they think. Very sad .

Those were already enough reasons why people sold it. They've got the profit and there's no reason for them to continue further with this coin because the sole person who advertised it has already died. Even me, if I've got a coin like this and the main guy has already quit or left, I'm going to dump it as soon as possible. That's how the market is working for projects like this. If the main stay guy has left, everyone is going to take it as negative news and that's why there's a force that everyone will start to dump it. But unlike bitcoin, despite satoshi left all of the sudden, it is still continuing until today. Well, a huge difference between John and satoshi.

[shield132]

For him, cryptocurrency was just another weapon where he could scam people and make money.

I basically knew nothing about Mcafee until watching some news stories after his death, both old and new, and I totally believe what you said--the guy was obviously crazy, and that's putting it kindly.  If I were to put it unkindly, I'd probably say that he was evil (assuming the allegations of murder, rape, and everything else he was accused of were true).  From the interviews from him I've seen, I could see himself committing suicide simply to make people talk about it.  

Your answer kinda reminds me of the one situation that everyone thinks about: What will happen when we die? What will our relatives/friends say? Will they cry? Etc...
He was so crazy and if we add the fact that he had to spend the rest of his life in jail, maybe he was really thinking about what would happen after his death and finally commited suicide?

Also, I remember that MacAfee was claiming that he knew who was real satoshi. If he was going to commit suicide, I guess, everything would lose value and he had nothing to lose, so, why didn't he revealed the Satoshis identity?

“Sometimes genius and madness aren’t far apart and it seems he unfortunately fell prey to his demons,” said Doug Clinton, managing partner at Loup Ventures.

I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

[SquallLeonhart]

According to El País, citing police sources, John McAfee, an anti-virus pioneer, killed himself in his prison cell at Brians 2 Penitentiary in Barcelona.
Prison guards found McAfee dead today. Medical specialists have not been able to resuscitate him.
Investigations into his death are ongoing, but the report states that all signs indicate suicide.
McAfee's extradition to the United States was approved by the Spanish National Court on Wednesday.
This great figure in the field of technology was arrested in October 2020 on charges of tax evasion in Barcelona.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also sued McAfee for allegedly paying money to advertise an "ICO" initial public offering on social media.
U.Today extends its sincere condolences to the McAfee family.

There is really a lot of talks about him being killed as well but I do not see the importance of him to be killed. I mean yeah the talk about Eipstein not killing himself but that just makes sense, dude was the owner of a pedo ring that included almost all the powerful people, that was a disgusting thing and not something you could have come out, hell USA let people whistleblow about how they killed their own people because how "dangerous" they are (check out cointelpro) yet that was fine, Eipstein was the red line man, it was impossible for those powerful people to let him speak about how had sexual relations with little kids, that is just way too disgusting and would have seen them buried alive.

However McAfee didn't had anything on anyone, dude was a bit crazy that is true but he didn't had anything on anyone and that is why I do not think he mattered enough.

[Gyfts]

Actually, it is not clear whether he committed suicide. Because there is no proof about it yet. Maybe he wanted to commit suicide when he heard that he was going to be taken to the USA again. Or maybe, someone planned to kill him and did it.

And speaking of that, I found this source….

Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-instagram-deleted-following-q-post-after-death-2021-6

However, Instagram deleted his post and account immediately. Maybe someone had full access to John McAfee’s official Instagram and made that cryptic “Q” post.

There is not a grand conspiracy behind his death. Dude was a nut job that might've went senile over the last 3 or 4 years. He was a brilliant programmer, and big bitcoin proponent, but that doesn't change the fact he was involved in some white collar crimes and the feds were after him. He got some tattoo suggesting that he would never kill himself and tweeted out suggesting that people were after him...I chalk that to him being a lunatic.

[Sithara007]

There is not a grand conspiracy behind his death. Dude was a nut job that might've went senile over the last 3 or 4 years. He was a brilliant programmer, and big bitcoin proponent, but that doesn't change the fact he was involved in some white collar crimes and the feds were after him. He got some tattoo suggesting that he would never kill himself and tweeted out suggesting that people were after him...I chalk that to him being a lunatic.

He was a murderer (killed Gregory Faull) and scamster (stole hundreds of millions of USD from cryptocurrency users). The fact that he committed suicide like a coward, unable to face the fact that he will be deported to the United States doesn't make him a saint all of a sudden. The funds should be recovered and reimbursed to the users who were scammed by McAfee. IMO, McAfee did more harm than good for the cryptocurrency sector. It is time to move on and focus on other important developments in the field of cryptocurrency.

[Lorence.xD]

I thought he died because of illness. If that's true the  that's really heartbreaking news. Although it wouldn't affect the market, as a human, we'll still feel sad that he ended his life for fear and depression. I think it's because of the threats that he's been hearing and the frustrations that he has in life. It will surely be a hard thing for his family to handle but I hope that they'll be able to surpass it.

It's pretty sad but the suicide angle seems a bit suspicious if you ask some people, there was a post by McAfee in a social media platform before dying that got deleted after the report of suicide which is crazy or maybe coincidental. Remember, Epstein? This was almost the same because Epstein plans to be a whistleblower at that time.

[jaysabi]

I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

His shitcoin is called WHACKD, he was just trying to drum up publicity about it so he could defraud more people out of money by selling it to them.  Not really that confusing, his life over the last bunch of years was devoted to fraud and schemes centered around crypto.  He made the tweet long before he was ever in danger of going to prison, it was just a publicity stunt to sell shitcoin.

[yhiaali3]

Everything crazy about this man, his life and his death was crazy, he has raised a lot of problems in his life since the creation of the anti-virus company and later when he moved to work in Crypto, there has been a lot of controversy about the man and the projects he promotes and mostly fraudulent projects, can To say that he raised a lot of controversy and questions in his life in all the places he went to, and also now after his death it seems that he wanted his death to be as controversial as his life was.

[zanezane]

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This is extremely sad , one should not do something like this since their life influences many people from their family and even if he had no way out, he could have for sure done something. This is never the case . I hope his family is better.
What am worried about is "if the social media played a sad role in this" ( we know how his image was therefore people always criticized him , it should have definitely been a hard thing for him to read )

I don't think that when someone who commits suicide cares if he/she/they are are going to influence their loved ones negatively or positively.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Very unfortunate that it reaches this point, even though Mcafee has a bad side he is one of the early promoters of Bitcoin adoption, he made headlines when he told the world that Bitcoin will reach $1 million, it's very unfortunate to read that he commit suicide maybe because of loneliness, he never gets to spend his remaining years in a good way.

Dude, you don't know what you are talking about. John McAfee was not one of the early promoters of Bitcoin. He jumped in to the cryptocurrency bandwagon, only after Bitcoin became popular. And he did more harm than good, by promoting altcoins instead of Bitcoin. And although his $1 million prediction attracted some attention, it actually made cryptocurrency users a laughing stock in front of others. He just pulled out a random number, and gave no justification to his prediction. It actually made a lot of people to think that cryptocurrency is a scam.

[jaysabi]

Very unfortunate that it reaches this point, even though Mcafee has a bad side he is one of the early promoters of Bitcoin adoption, he made headlines when he told the world that Bitcoin will reach $1 million, it's very unfortunate to read that he commit suicide maybe because of loneliness, he never gets to spend his remaining years in a good way.

Dude, you don't know what you are talking about. John McAfee was not one of the early promoters of Bitcoin. He jumped in to the cryptocurrency bandwagon, only after Bitcoin became popular. And he did more harm than good, by promoting altcoins instead of Bitcoin. And although his $1 million prediction attracted some attention, it actually made cryptocurrency users a laughing stock in front of others. He just pulled out a random number, and gave no justification to his prediction. It actually made a lot of people to think that cryptocurrency is a scam.

Pretty much nailed it.  It didn't help that he was literally scamming people by taking payments to pump garbage projects and created his own garbage coin and was relentlessly pumping it to people who didn't know better.  The constant scamming is what ultimately led to his downfall, since he wasn't paying taxes on his scam earnings and that's why the government finally caught up to him for tax evasion.

[bryant.coleman]

Pretty much nailed it.  It didn't help that he was literally scamming people by taking payments to pump garbage projects and created his own garbage coin and was relentlessly pumping it to people who didn't know better.  The constant scamming is what ultimately led to his downfall, since he wasn't paying taxes on his scam earnings and that's why the government finally caught up to him for tax evasion.

He used innovative methods to evade taxes. He refused to file his tax returns (and therefore didn't mentioned his crypto holdings, which is mandatory for US nationals, irrespective of the fact whether they are residing in the US or not). The fiat payments he received for pumping these shitcoins (he charged $105,000 for a single tweet) were received in account of his girlfriend (who is not a citizen of the United States). According to the charge sheet put up by the IRS for extradition, the last time he filed his tax return was in 2013. After that he simply refused to file them. The justification given was that "taxation is illegal".

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1080953136985133062

[jaberwock]

According to El País, citing police sources, John McAfee, an anti-virus pioneer, killed himself in his prison cell at Brians 2 Penitentiary in Barcelona.
Prison guards found McAfee dead today. Medical specialists have not been able to resuscitate him.
Investigations into his death are ongoing, but the report states that all signs indicate suicide.
McAfee's extradition to the United States was approved by the Spanish National Court on Wednesday.
This great figure in the field of technology was arrested in October 2020 on charges of tax evasion in Barcelona.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also sued McAfee for allegedly paying money to advertise an "ICO" initial public offering on social media.
U.Today extends its sincere condolences to the McAfee family.

I would say that it is not really that shocking that a rich person was trying to not pay taxes. I mean we literally saw the PRESIDENT BRAG ABOUT NOT PAYING TAXES in the past, Trump paid 750 bucks in taxes, that's it and nothing more, that's all he paid. His defense? "His companies did" instead, which they didn't mostly because most of them went bankrupt or paying huge sums of debt that can't be paid and inevitably they will bankrupt too.

Remember panama papers? Bunch of super wealthy people hiding their profits in panama so that they could avoid paying a tax? Or remember Eduardo Saverin? The co-founder of facebook that had over a billion dollars thanks to facebook and he moved to singapore and became a singapore citizen to avoid paying taxes. Basically all the rich people in the world find a way to avoid paying a tax, hell Bill Gates got a fake divorce to pay less taxes, A FAKE DIVORCE!

[Oceat]

I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

His shitcoin is called WHACKD, he was just trying to drum up publicity about it so he could defraud more people out of money by selling it to them.  Not really that confusing, his life over the last bunch of years was devoted to fraud and schemes centered around crypto.  He made the tweet long before he was ever in danger of going to prison, it was just a publicity stunt to sell shitcoin.

Welp, the guy did deserve it when all he was doing in the past is shilling a shitcoin and making bad reputation to Bitcoin but most people aren't affected by that and he's a not like Elon Musk who can make a change with a single tweet. That's some real power of an influencer especially in crypto market.

I felt sad a little about how he just end up his life in prison but I also believe that he deserves it to go to jail since he was scamming more people in the past by shilling his shitcoin project. I guess people are quite happy that the shiller and scammer is gone.

[Mahanton]

I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

His shitcoin is called WHACKD, he was just trying to drum up publicity about it so he could defraud more people out of money by selling it to them.  Not really that confusing, his life over the last bunch of years was devoted to fraud and schemes centered around crypto.  He made the tweet long before he was ever in danger of going to prison, it was just a publicity stunt to sell shitcoin.

Welp, the guy did deserve it when all he was doing in the past is shilling a shitcoin and making bad reputation to Bitcoin but most people aren't affected by that and he's a not like Elon Musk who can make a change with a single tweet. That's some real power of an influencer especially in crypto market.

I felt sad a little about how he just end up his life in prison but I also believe that he deserves it to go to jail since he was scamming more people in the past by shilling his shitcoin project. I guess people are quite happy that the shiller and scammer is gone.

He deserves to go into jail but dying is another thing but since this is a self choice since this is a suicide then its an another story.People shouldnt commit this thing but due to some people do really failed when it comes to emotion handling then several people do really end up on this thing which is sad.Its just right that he should pay into those crimes that he had done in the past but its sad on how he do end up which is a sad thing.
I was shocked about this news on hearing it up but well whats done is done. Rest in peace.

[perfect999]

According to El País, citing police sources, John McAfee, an anti-virus pioneer, killed himself in his prison cell at Brians 2 Penitentiary in Barcelona.
Prison guards found McAfee dead today. Medical specialists have not been able to resuscitate him.
Investigations into his death are ongoing, but the report states that all signs indicate suicide.
McAfee's extradition to the United States was approved by the Spanish National Court on Wednesday.
This great figure in the field of technology was arrested in October 2020 on charges of tax evasion in Barcelona.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also sued McAfee for allegedly paying money to advertise an "ICO" initial public offering on social media.
U.Today extends its sincere condolences to the McAfee family.

Meehn this is very bad!!! Okay he did a lot of bad things and everyone never liked him for that, and to be truthful I also didn’t like the things he did and kind of got irritated when people talk about him always on the forum, but I never wished for him to die like this. I might have felt like he deserved going to jail, which of course he deserved if he really committed the crimes he was accused of, but I never wished him this, I don’t feel he deserved to die like this and I kind of feel sorry for him though.

This news was kind of shock  to me, but anyways, I hope he rest in peace. And let this also serve as a lesson to others that may wish to tread this same part.

[Hamphser]

I feel somehow sad despite the fact of what he did.

His $WHACKD post really makes me confused.

His shitcoin is called WHACKD, he was just trying to drum up publicity about it so he could defraud more people out of money by selling it to them.  Not really that confusing, his life over the last bunch of years was devoted to fraud and schemes centered around crypto.  He made the tweet long before he was ever in danger of going to prison, it was just a publicity stunt to sell shitcoin.

Welp, the guy did deserve it when all he was doing in the past is shilling a shitcoin and making bad reputation to Bitcoin but most people aren't affected by that and he's a not like Elon Musk who can make a change with a single tweet. That's some real power of an influencer especially in crypto market.

I felt sad a little about how he just end up his life in prison but I also believe that he deserves it to go to jail since he was scamming more people in the past by shilling his shitcoin project. I guess people are quite happy that the shiller and scammer is gone.

He deserves to go into jail but dying is another thing but since this is a self choice since this is a suicide then its an another story.People shouldnt commit this thing but due to some people do really failed when it comes to emotion handling then several people do really end up on this thing which is sad.Its just right that he should pay into those crimes that he had done in the past but its sad on how he do end up which is a sad thing.
I was shocked about this news on hearing it up but well whats done is done. Rest in peace.

Personal issues should be set aside because this is on talks of someones life which i dont see for anyone to be that bad into something should be always be taking the blame and telling that he do deserve on what happened to him.

It just sad on how he ended up his life even though he dont have much good image in terms of crypto market but in terms of the tech or antivirus itself then we cant really deny that this is something relevant or helpful.

We dont know on how he had been  thinking and on why he do end up that kind of decision.Its just sad on how he do end up his life.We deserve to live even though we do need to face up consequences but when your life is in talks then its an another story.

[bryant.coleman]

He deserves to go into jail but dying is another thing but since this is a self choice since this is a suicide then its an another story.People shouldnt commit this thing but due to some people do really failed when it comes to emotion handling then several people do really end up on this thing which is sad.Its just right that he should pay into those crimes that he had done in the past but its sad on how he do end up which is a sad thing.
I was shocked about this news on hearing it up but well whats done is done. Rest in peace.

Who should be blamed here? If you go against the authorities, then in all probability it will end in tragedy for you. Someone like John McAfee should have known this. The problem here is that he was not ready to admit his defeat. He openly challenged the American legal system for all those years, and when the system finally caught up with him, he couldn't acknowledge it. He had a lot of financial and human resources at his hand, and had a good chance of defending himself in the US. But then he decided to escape by taking the suicide route, rather than putting up a good fight.

[Kakmakr]

Since I have seen the controversial documentary film - Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee and all the things he did in Belize.. I expected something bad to happen to him in the future. The guy lived a very full life and he had little boundaries when it came to illegal actions.

It is unfortunate for a person to fly that high and then to crash like this... but "Money" got the better of him and not paying taxes to get more money... was the absolute worst decision he could have ever made.