ZoneBitcoin EditorialThe creator of the famous antivirus was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona on June 23, 2021. This happened a few hours after Spanish justice agreed to extradite him to the United States. He was to be tried there for tax evasion in particular.
Some rumors say that he committed suicide while others indicate that it was more of a natural death. It's still too early to know...
So aged 75, we can truly say that John McAfee had a thousand lives. We wouldn't be surprised to see producers fighting to make a film about his/her life, it's so impressive and incredible. He had already served time in prison in the Dominican Republic, a country into which he allegedly smuggled firearms. In 2012, he was arrested in Guatemala, after escaping from Belize, a country where police were investigating the death. of his neighbor. He would even have been accused of murder, which goes to show you the tumultuous (!) life of the character.
And even though he's been very controversial in recent years, there's no denying the fact that he's been absolutely brilliant at software design. We still owe him the antivirus software that bears his name, and that's no small thing. A true pioneer in computer security, he launched an entire industry worth billions of dollars. He has always been on the fringes, displaying a lifestyle that is different from other high-tech entrepreneurs.
Impetuous, outspoken, John McAfee was a character in himself.
He managed to sell his VirusScan software to Intel for more than 7 billion dollars at the time and it was from there, having become a muli-millionaire, that he experienced his greatest escapades. For example, he ran to be the Libertarian Party candidate in the 2016 and 2020 elections in the USA.
He has never hidden his desire to abolish taxes, of whatever nature they may be. For him, taxation was simply freedom-killing.
A fervent defender of cryptocurrencies and bitcoin, he was one of the very first entrepreneurs to show his support for this emerging technology. He was the first to claim that bitcoin would reach millions of dollars…
He necessarily contributed to making bitcoin known with these grandiose estimates. For many, he was a crypto guru, without even trying to be.
Since John McAfee was a visionary for many, he brought a lot of credibility to bitcoin at a time when few people believed in it.
RIP
We made a video on John McAfee a few months ago if you are interested in knowing more about the life of this colorful character.
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