Quote from: squatter on April 19, 2019, 07:09:52 PM

Quote from: Konijn on April 19, 2019, 09:23:55 AM

John McAfee claims to know the identity of Satoshi and has made several twitter posts suggesting he will reveal the identity if the they do not reveal themselves.

I don't know if he really knows who he is, but he is probably the most credible person to come forwards claiming to know or be him.

John McAfee, credible?

Like the way he does paid promotional tweets to pump altcoins? Or maybe you're referring to his plan to eat his dick on live television? Or the way he was suspected of a gruesome murder a few years ago and was found civilly liable for the man's death?

Sounds like a really credible dude. It's too bad the Craig Wright debacle shows these sorts of lies can go a lot further than one might expect.

"That itself is not really difficult with the string of charlatans who have pretended in the past,"

Credible compared to the others, that's not to say he's credible himself.

Don't get me wrong, anyone who knows a little about John McAfee knows the guy is a looney and an egotist.

Anyone who has seen "Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6071534/ ) knows just how much of a nutcase he is [spoiler]real life john wick[/spoiler]

So I'm not saying he's a credible person by any means but let's give the man the credit he deserves. he wrote McAfee AV in 1987~ back when that was impressive and ran it until 1997 when he sold and made millions.

He was also really bitter with his departure from McAfee and how they controlled the company when he sold his majority shares. He wanted to discredit the company by giving himself bad PR because the name of the AV is linked to his name and he thought he could destroy the company by acting insane... I think he did too many drugs though and stopped pretending at some point.

The point is... he obviously isn't stupid and it is possible through his work that he may have made the connections needed to know, and it's entirely possible it's just john being john. I just thought people might be interested. And as someone else said, reading the comments on his posts he does seem serious about it. I guess we'll see in a few days :popcorn:

Konijn

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