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John McAfee, the ancient antivirus software developer and articulate autonomous cryptocurrency advocate, affairs to use Skycoin (SKY) in his 2020 attack for the American presidency, Crypto Briefing can reveal.
Drew MacGibbon, the Asia contest advance for Skycoin, said McAfee planned to use the project’s Skycoin BBS, a amusing media application, in his acclamation campaign. McAfee, who will aboriginal charge to seek choice from the Libertarian Party, will run on a belvedere of ambitious greater accepting for cryptocurrencies.
“McAfee wants to use Skycoin’s amusing media belvedere for his presidential campaign,” MacGibbon told Crypto Briefing, during a Skype call. “Regardless of the result, he wants to use it to draw absorption to cryptocurrency.”
A agent for the McAfee 2024 aggregation told Crypto Briefing that they wouldn’t be able to affirm or abjure at this time.
Described as a decentralized adaptation to Twitter, Skycoin BBS hopes to become a applicable another to the big amusing media giants. It will assignment on Skycoin’s “flagship application,” the internet belvedere Skywire. This works as a cobweb arrangement with bags of nodes – 9,000 at the aftermost calculation – all over the apple that can accelerate and accept internet traffic.
Although Skycoin BBS will comedy a acute allotment in the McAfee attack to advice advance his bulletin and animate discussion, MacGibbon explained that it hadn’t absolutely been congenital yet. It “wasn’t a antecedence at the moment.” It will, however, reportedly be up and active afore the chase begins. Presumably, that agency ancient abutting year.
The McAfee Skycoin Partnership
Details are still scant, but the accommodation to use Skycoin during his presidential chase reflects McAfee’s abrupt billow of activity for the decentralized web provider.
He alone met Skycoin for the aboriginal time a ages ago. He aggregate a date with Skycoin’s co-founder ‘Synth’ at the Malta Blockchain Summit, which took place right at the end of October. They spent added than an hour talking, according to MacGibbon. McAfee was accustomed a Skyminer – acclimated to action affairs and accommodate accumulator accommodation for the arrangement – at the end of their aboriginal meeting.
Since then, the accord has become closer. A baiter affair and a few affairs after McAfee tattooed the Skycoin logo assimilate his lower aback aural a week. This was appear by abounding crypto outlets – not ours – and led to a 10% billow in the SKY badge price. MacGibbon said that it had originally been proposed as a antic and they were surprised when he did it. McAfee alike reportedly paid for it.
Later on, McAfee invited the Skycoin aggregation to bless Thanksgiving. Some of the Skycoin aggregation were absolutely at McAfee’s abode when Crypto Briefing spoke to MacGibbon aftermost week.
What will the SEC say to McAfee 2024?
Skycoin wasn’t helped back a announcer for TheNextWeb appear an commodity that alleged it a ‘scam’. Although the Skycoin aggregation bound acquaint a rebuttal, the accident was done. MacGibbon, whose role focuses on the project’s accessible image, said it had taken months of PR to arbitrate the effects.
Whether Skycoin BBS will be accessible in time depends, by the sounds of it, on how bound Skycoin developers can body all the added things that booty precedence. There’s additionally the anguish that McAfee ability face acknowledged difficulties. The SEC said at the weekend it would able bottomward on amusing media influencers who accept payments to advance badge sales. The banking authorities ordered two ICO projects – Paragon and Airfox – to reimburse investors in November.
DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather accept already had to achieve with the SEC. McAfee, who reportedly answerable $100,000 per promotional cheep on his now-defunct ‘Coin of the Day’ series, said he remained unfazed beforehand today.
McAfee appear his ambition to run during the summer and doesn’t apprehend to win.
Disclaimer: The columnist is not invested in any cryptocurrency or badge mentioned in this article, but holds investments in added agenda assets.
