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July 17, 2017 (9 years ago)

McAfee Originates 'The Dickening'

One reply to a Bitcoin price thread made John McAfee the loudest voice in the space. He used the platform it built to run a $13M fraud, and died in a Spanish prison cell awaiting extradition.…

2/9 - Bitcoin was trading near $1,800 when John McAfee replied to a price discussion with a guarantee: $500,000 within 3 years, or "I will eat my dick on national television." The text-only tweet became one of the most screenshotted posts in Bitcoin history.

3/9 - The bet did real work. CNN, CNBC, and outlets that had ignored Bitcoin all covered the antivirus millionaire wagering his anatomy on it. A tracker site nicknamed "the dickening" charted BTC's actual price against the curve needed to reach $500K by July…

4/9 - Four months later he escalated. In November 2017 he raised the target to $1 million by December 31, 2020, same wager. He claimed proprietary mathematical models backed the number, citing his doctorate in point-set topology and insisting his algorithms…

5/9 - The bet built him a massive Twitter following, and that following became the product. Through 2018 and 2019, a single McAfee "coin of the day" tweet could move a small altcoin 50 to 100 percent in hours. Traders called it the McAfee Effect.

6/9 - The DOJ later laid out the mechanics: his team quietly accumulated positions in thin altcoins, he tweeted endorsements without disclosing he was paid, and they sold into the spike. Over $2M from the pump scheme, plus more than $11M in undisclosed ICO…

7/9 - In June 2020, with Bitcoin near $9,000 and his deadline weeks away, he renounced the bet entirely. He called it a deliberate "ruse to get people to see the light," recasting the wager as a marketing stunt for adoption rather than a prediction he ever…

8/9 - The unwinding was fast. October 2020: arrested in Spain for failing to file US tax returns from 2014 through 2018 while earning millions. March 2021: indicted by the DOJ over the pump-and-dump and ICO scheme, more than $13M in undisclosed compensation.

9/9 - On June 23, 2021, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the US, McAfee was found dead in his cell, ruled a suicide by hanging. He had repeatedly tweeted that he would never take his own life, and the conspiracy theories began within…

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