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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: John McAfee is dead, are his coins lost?
by
Ozero
on 04/07/2021, 03:31:24 UTC
Sadly, his all crypto become obsolete after his death. Because he might not share private keys to anyone. to overcome this There should be system of nominee if anyone's address is more than 2 years inactive. This is limitations in decentralisation.
We will probably never know for sure about this. While already in prison, John McAfee wrote on social networks that he had no money left. I am inclined to believe this, because, committing suicide (if it was really suicide), it turns out, he no longer believed in his release from prison and the lack of money should play an important role in such a decision. If, nevertheless, we assume that the money remained in his cryptocurrency, then, since he had access to the Internet and social networks from prison, then he could well transfer information about the private keys of his wallets to his family.