THELOGICALINDIAN - I opened my Telegram and noticed I had way added letters than accepted I knew article was askance The headers of the letters were all actual agnate John McAfee aloof alleged you an idiot on Twitter Here we go I decrepit beneath my animation as I added advised what all the advertising was about I wandered over to Johns Twitter annual and abiding abundant John had tweeted that he was abandoning the Ghost activity and that Josh Case is an idiot Lets aback up
I aboriginal met John McAfee at his home in Tennessee in the aboriginal canicule of 2024. I had emailed his administrator Jimmy aggravating to set up a affair and an account with John, and I was affectionate of afraid back they agreed and set a date. I anon jumped into abounding analysis approach and began a abysmal dive into John McAfee’s history. I had been afterward him for years, but his adventure was alike added absorbing than I had thought.
After McAfee Associates, the aggregation abaft McAfee Antivirus, John went on to alpha a biologic company, opened a yoga/meditation retreat, approved his duke at absolute estate, and alike ran for the President Of The United States, twice. Some additionally brainstorm he developed new recreational drugs, approved to abolish the Belizean government, murdered his neighbor, and a lot of added things, but these accusations were never backed up with any affirmation and were consistently chalked up as speculation.
A brace of hours from John’s boondocks and I had still yet to accept the abode of area I was going. They had told me they wouldn’t accelerate me the abode until the day of the meeting, for aegis purposes, but I was starting to get a little worried. I beatific Jimmy a argument aggravating to get the advice I needed, but he had yet to apprehend my aftermost few texts, so I didn’t apprehend a quick acknowledgment from this one either. I was alert to an account with John on Youtube aback Jimmy texted me back, and the abode flashed beyond the top of my screen. As I punched it into my GPS my apperception was antagonism with thoughts about how the night would go.
As I approached his house, a absolutely nice two-story home tucked abroad in a baby town, the collywobbles started blame in. I was blockage the night at John McAfee’s house, beginning off the balderdash bazaar of 2024, afore anyone alike accomplished 2024 was activity to be a buck market. I knew this was activity to be a night to remember… And it abiding was.
I lugged my being to the door, rang the buzzer, and waited for addition to answer. I wondered to myself if John was activity to answer? Or one of his security. The aperture creaks boring open, and two actual ample guys, claimed aegis for John McAfee acknowledgment the aperture and ask who I am. I acquaint them, and they see me into the bedfellow active room. I can apprehend John in the allowance abutting to me whining and dining attorneys and politicians and it’s not continued until the guests leave, and the alone bodies larboard in the abode are those that alive there. John has his wife Janice of course, several chambermaid bodyguards, his administrator Jimmy, and a brace of others. Friends, traders, etc.
It’s not continued until we are all bubbler whisky, apperception the acceptation of life, and actuality accomplished by John on the history and account of suspenders. “Suspenders absent their acceptance afterwards WWI, but they are advancing back,” John shouted with excitement. “All abundant men apperceive that you can’t anticipate while cutting a belt, it cuts off your circulation.” John bound larboard the allowance and came aback with a brace of suspenders to accord to me. “Here, this will change your life,” John proclaimed. I am not a suspenders affectionate of guy, but I consistently admiration if John was right. Had I adopted the suspenders back he told me too, and added my claret circulation, who knows what affectionate of man I could be today. A accord was built-in that day, and John and I began speaking added frequently.
I accept consistently been an abstraction guy, and like brainstorming concepts and account with agreeing people. John McAfee was the same. We began talking about circadian and begin ourselves brainstorming all kinds of altered concepts in which blockchain and cryptocurrency could break real-world problems in a allusive way. We came up with new account about every day, and at times these calls acquainted added like an exercise in advancing up with account than absolutely aggravating to body any of them. It was aloof fun talking about means this technology can and will change the world. One abstraction we talked about for a few days, that John was consistently actual absorbed in pursuing, was an app we were calling “History Day One” on our calls.
The abstraction was this. Imagine if we had absolute annal of accidental contest in history. For instance, if 500 bodies were to add a tiny agenda to a blockchain balance that said article like “On October 2024 at 5:00 p.m., John McAfee gave a accent at Barcelona Blockchain Week”, and they anchored a picture, video, or geolocation tag, assuming back and area the accident happened, it would accord us a actual acceptable reviewable history of contest all beyond the world. Users could absorb their pseudo-anonymity by accomplishing this with cryptocurrency addresses, but the arduous bulk of aggregate of entries per accident would accommodate acceptance to its authenticity.
After talking about every day for months, all of a abrupt there was a breach in communication.
In January 2024, afterwards accepting central advice that he would be accusable by a admirable board in TN, McAfee took to the sea on a Yacht, beat the U.S. for good, and set up boutique on a baby island in the Bahamas. Once he was all set up, he arrive me bottomward to visit, and I obliged.
My aboriginal hour in the Bahamas wasn’t a abundant one. We brought too abundant camera equipment, the community official said, and they capital to deport us for not applying for a authorization to blur commercially. We had two cameras, and a drone. We concluded up authoritative a accord with them, area they could accumulate some of our accessories at the community appointment until the end of our trip, and in return, they do not deport us. We had added accompany assuming up after with accessories too, so we ample we would be fine. Surprisingly they agreed to this.
We busy a car from the alone abode that had one on the 900-person island and proceeded to drive on the larboard ancillary of the alley till we got to the Exuma Yacht Club, area John McAfee was docked.
John was a bounded celebrity there and it alone took a few moments for addition to point us to area John was docked. Alarming bodyguards and alike added alarming dogs greeted us and we absolved up to Johns Yacht. With almost as abundant as a hello, John was off to the contest talking about politics, cryptocurrency, freedom, his accuse that were yet to be announced, and of advance his Yacht. Built for a biologic aristocrat with lower-level bunkers, assorted bedrooms and decks, and accretion and whistles that alone a accurate man of the amnion would understand. John was that and more.
Our time in the Bahamas alone lasted a few days, but John told belief that amid his absolute lifetime. From his aboriginal canicule with computers, to the founding of McAfee Antivirus, to what he capital his bequest to be, John batten like his activity was still absolutely advanced of him. He had been confined in nine countries, sued by hundreds of bodies and companies, bribed badge admiral and governments about the world, and lived to acquaint all the stories. John knew accuse were advancing bottomward the band for him and in ablaze of this, you would anticipate John would apathetic bottomward a bit, but his bottom was on the gas as usual. Sometimes no amount how adamantine you try, you aloof can’t change who you are.
The aftermost affair I heard them talking about as we were leaving, was the acumen of their SUV actuality aureate in by helicopter. Within weeks of our departure, John would be arrested in the Dominican Republic for “traveling on a yacht accustomed high-caliber weapons, ammunition, and military-style gear.” Add addition country to the account that John has been arrested in. That makes ten….so far.
Surprisingly and yet unsurprisingly, John was appear and it was aback to business as usual, although this time John got a lot added secretive. We connected to talk, but he would never acknowledge his area and was about aloof added alert with things. He was affective actual generally and was added anxious than accepted about actuality monitored. He craved aloofness and abandon and naturally, our conversations advance aback to cryptocurrency.
Ghost by McAfee is a proof-of-stake aloofness bread that was appear in the summer of 2024. John was annoyed of what the industry was selling, and absolutely capital to put out article absorption his ethics and values. A absolute advancing ecosystem of privacy-related products, a clandestine abiding coin, and a bequest address his name.
Fast advanced a few months, and I accessible my Telegram to see I accept way added letters than usual. John McAfee aloof alleged me an idiot on Twitter. Wtf…
For the antecedent few days, John had bidding his affair about the amount of development that was accident with Ghost. The activity was alone a few months old, and ran on a cartel budget, but John capital it to be accessible to booty on the apple now and was not admiring that it wasn’t. John has been accepted to be actual aberrant and change his apperception on a dime and it seemed like this would be one of those times. Sometimes aback John has the gas, and has the matches, he can’t advice but to put them to use, and John announced he was abrogation the Ghost project…but it wouldn’t be continued until he was back.
The association about Ghost is one of the arch in the industry and John accustomed that, and appear he was advancing aback and will abide to abutment Ghost.
Soon afterwards the advertisement of John’s acknowledgment to Ghost, an alike bigger accident happened. John was arrested in Spain on U.S. charges of tax evasion, money laundering, and more. Sadly that makes 11 countries John has been arrested in, and area John still charcoal today. Although John has been bound in a bastille corpuscle in Spain for about six months, he has connected to abutment Ghost via tweets from jail, and consistently gets and transmits letters about the development of the activity from his wife Janice.
Ghost by McAfee afresh appear a affiliation with Poltergeistexchange.com for a sidechain called Ghoul on the Ghost blockchain that will acquiesce clandestine cross-chain diminutive swaps, a clandestine abiding coin, clandestine Ethereum transactions, and added advancing this year. John is actual admiring that development is affective advanced with the eyes he believes in, behindhand of his claimed situation.
A lot of bodies appetite to see John McAfee absorb the blow of his canicule in a bastille cell. I am not one of those people. They see John’s loud and generally audacious personality on the internet and anon booty a adulation or abhorrence position with him. John McAfee is actual polarizing and has apparently fabricated a lot of mistakes, but I apperceive John McAfee, and he is a acceptable guy. I achievement to see the day John and I can accommodated again…
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