John McAfee is dead, are his coins lost?

[ethereumhunter]

His coins will be in his wallet, especially if he stores his coins in the hardware wallet. But if someone who knows John McAfee better than other people knows about his wallet key and knows where he stores that wallet, that person will access the wallet and use his money. I wonder what will happen to the market after his death, but he can rest in peace now without doing something for the crypto market.

[blockman]

I've been looking at the news and there's his wife that's giving a statement about how she was ordered to poison him. So that made me think that what if John has already made a last will testament and it's going to her wife including his cryptos and portfolios that he owns, those that are never seized. And he has taught her how to gain access to it if the situation comes that they're not expecting and that situation did really came to them recently.

for sure, we will be hearing a lot of stories or conspiracy stories from here and there. but he already knew his situation and if he had coins left, maybe, he already left it to his children as he claimed before he fathered about 47 children. at least one or two, may have benefited his wealth and also to his wife.  
i believe, we will never hear the truth about his wealth. maybe years from now, if in case his close members of the family will tell the truth. but right now, people will just speculate on things. and if those coins are still on his possession, consider it lost as we dont know if he left the keys to someone to recover those coins

Yeah, his kids too I almost forgotten that he had them. I think he's wise up to give details yo his children instead to his wife that shall enjoy the money with another guy.That is a better decision if ever he has given to his children and have ot distributed to his many children. Whatever conspiracy we will hear in the internet, only him and his children and wife will know if ever had given a last will or a hint and details where is his remaining crypto wealth is and how to spend or sell it for their future.

[Lorence.xD]

The last info that we have regarding his riches is that it was seized or that it was gone due to some bad investments. I’m sure he still have some crypto in his stash, but even if the law enforcement finds it, they would not be able to access it at all. Perhaps consider it lost in the void just like any other stashes out there that have been lost due to forgotten passwords or drive failure.

This is probably the likely thing to happen to his coins, and if this was really the case, then he did a great service to bitcoin market as a whole because he contributed to the permanent increase of price in bitcoin.

[virasog]

Jhon McAfee has been one of the bigges figures involved in the crypto world and today he dies in Spanish Prison. I feel really bad for this news, rest in peace McAfee.

But someone has to ask it, what will happen with his cryptos, we can be sure he was holding a huge amount, so, let's keep an eye close to this topic.

We will always remember you as an awesome guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

As far as i read somewhere that he did not posses any coins / crypto. Although this statement is not believable. However, if he had crypto and bitcoin in his wallet and he had not shared his seed with anyone, than we can consider those crypto to be lost forever.
Anyways, its a sad news of his demise. Rest in Peace !!

[mk4]

he tweeted his crypto fortune are all gone, it's not really for sure if it's true. he may have set aside some for his kids or his wife. a father would think that way when they know the authorities are about to get him, he probably had given some.

if not then it's lost. he probably has lots of BTC and ETH, he got about $23M for ICO promotion alone. I can still see some of those he promoted still alive.

Though I'm not saying it's impossible, I mean, if I personally had a crap ton of money in cryptocurrencies as well and I was to be prosecute by the US government, I'd probably say the same thing.

[Woodie]

Am sure his survived by a wife and kids, and since he knew crypto has no forget password to retrieve them, chances are he shared these private keys with her... if not then these coins are lost and forgotten.

If he went down with the private keys then as crypto users we haven't done much to put in measures to retrieve such information,and consider these to be  some of the flaws of crypto imo.

[cruso]

John had his issues, but he was a character. I imagine he would have fit in here nicely.

[Lucius]

Jhon McAfee has been one of the bigges figures involved in the crypto world and today he dies in Spanish Prison. I feel really bad for this news, rest in peace McAfee.
But someone has to ask it, what will happen with his cryptos, we can be sure he was holding a huge amount, so, let's keep an eye close to this topic.
We will always remember you as an awesome guy.

I don’t know what JM did for the crypto community to consider him one of the greatest or awesome people? The man has always been surrounded by bad stories, suspicious business moves, murder charges, illegal possession of weapons and has been in various prisons several times for it.

In addition, his promotion of cryptocurrencies will be remembered through the shilling of various scam projects via Twitter, which he charged dearly for - and the deceptions and lies he used. Many have lost everything they had because of him, and they will certainly not remember him for anything good.

I have no sympathy for such people, but I would have much preferred him to have been convicted before his death - and if he really killed himself, then he has shown that he was a coward who was afraid to face the truth.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Jhon McAfee has been one of the bigges figures involved in the crypto world

Haha... Nope.

He was promoting scams, pyramid schemes ICOs. He was a big figure, yeah, but no in the “crypto world”*. He's known for being the father of antiviruses, at least that's how I remember him.

*Should you define that “world”? What exactly is the “crypto world”? The cryptocurrency industry? The cryptographic mailing lists? A guy's, named “crypto”, world? 

But someone has to ask it, what will happen with his cryptos, we can be sure he was holding a huge amount, so, let's keep an eye close to this topic.

I hope he had lots of BTC in his wallet(s). They are probably lost.


After all, he lived his life with cocaine and lot of sex. The dream of every Wall Street broker. Once he found out about the extradition, he knew what was going to face.

[Kittygalore]

Though I'm not saying it's impossible, I mean, if I personally had a crap ton of money in cryptocurrencies as well and I was to be prosecute by the US government, I'd probably say the same thing.

Maybe he is saying the truth and that he really did lost all of his crypto fortune already, now that I think about it, Epstein allegedly committed suicide in his cell too so I think there's a conspiracy behind McAfee's death too.

[davis196]

John McAfee had lost most of his wealth during the last few years.
He made more money from his anti-virus software,rather than investing in cryptocurrencies.
I couldn't care less about his coins.Perhaps he has some worthless shitcoins in his accounts.
I really doubt that he has any BTC left.

[Argoo]

The last info that we have regarding his riches is that it was seized or that it was gone due to some bad investments. I’m sure he still have some crypto in his stash, but even if the law enforcement finds it, they would not be able to access it at all. Perhaps consider it lost in the void just like any other stashes out there that have been lost due to forgotten passwords or drive failure.

I don't think John McAfee had any decent amounts of money at the time of his death, including in cryptocurrency. Among his most recent tweets, he stated that he had no money left. Some of them were actually confiscated by the relevant US authorities. One might not believe him, but the very fact of his suicide after that indicates that this time he seems to have told the truth. Due to the lack of money, he did not see a positive way out of this situation. Considering that he was already 75 years old, he clearly imagined that he would never get out alive. Therefore, I decided to take such a step.

[Rebdoomer]

He always liked those anonymous coins. If he did have any coins left, he probably had coins like Monero.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

To paraphrase what Davis196 said above, who the f**k cares and why? Morbid curiosity?
The dude was a 1st class jerk who bankrupted himself and on the way down took a lot of investors with him.

[ChiBitCTy]

Jhon McAfee has been one of the bigges figures involved in the crypto world and today he dies in Spanish Prison. I feel really bad for this news, rest in peace McAfee.

But someone has to ask it, what will happen with his cryptos, we can be sure he was holding a huge amount, so, let's keep an eye close to this topic.

We will always remember you as an awesome guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

I am not sure that people should remember him as an "awesome guy".  John had a lot of negative qualities about him that I think was a negative for a good chunk of people.  One thing that he did that I'd say is hard to justify him as a "good guy" is his involvement with quite a few scammy types of cryptocurrencies. 

He stated recently while in prison that he has no coins left to his name.  Whether that is true or not is probably impossible to say.

[bitzizzix]

jhon mcaffe is a very extraordinary man, his genius is recognized by all countries, he has worked at nasa,, some say he died of poisoning, there is also news that says he died by suicide, a lot of confusing news about his death,, but we will always remember you, because you are an extraordinary man,, about bitcoin can be withdrawn or not, maybe all of that we should ask his family,,

McAfee is known as one of the world's leading anti-virus software pioneers and the world knows him, and he was reportedly found dead by suicide in a prison in Barcelona, Spain.
many stories and cases were made by him and also became a controversy for being a fake crypto teacher to allegedly killing his neighbor and so on, and his death is still a question mark because he has stated that he cannot stand in prison.
for bitcoin or other crypto holdings I don't care because we won't know the truth like he does.

[Samthehero]

All Bitcoin and Ethereum will be lost, given enough time. That is just a fact. Maybe he instructed someone how to gain access to his crypto, then again maybe he didn't.

[yhiaali3]

McAfee was a very important and influential figure in Crypto and was also in the past an expert in computer software and must have taken the necessary precautions before his death in order for his family to inherit his huge fortune in cryptocurrencies, surely he gave his family passwords and two-factor authentication codes to access his accounts or wallets.
If he hadn't done it earlier and gave his family this important data then I think McAfee's digital fortune was lost forever because he died in prison and he certainly wouldn't give the cops any real information to get access to his accounts and wallets.

[Samthehero]

Maybe he didn't give his family passwords and two-factor authentication codes. Maybe he was worried they would clean him out and squander his cryptofunds on whatever. Maybe he didn't trust them enough.

[Erdogan]

A terrible thing. Even though I didn't always like his pump&dumps, I somehow admired him.

I don't know if you know, but the initial information is that he hanged himself. It looks weird considering what he wrote on Twitter some time ago ..



source: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1316801215083225096

I'm not sure if this could have anything to do with the coins he own, but the situation is quite strange.