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Move over, Vermin Supreme. There’s addition adversary for America’s wackiest presidential candidate, and he’s acceptable to accretion the abutment of every Bitcoin hodler aloft eighteen. John McAfee—the drug-cooking, crypto-shilling, probably-own-dick-munching antivirus administrator who spent bisected a decade active like a Bond villain in Central America, has formally appear his antagonism for the White House. On Sunday, the cryptocurrency authority issued his aboriginal academic attack tweet, announcement that he would run for President in 2020.
“If asked afresh by the Libertarian party, I will run with them,” wrote the man who wants to accept his feel on the nuclear trigger. “If not, I will actualize my own party. I accept this will best serve the crypto association by accouterment the ultimate attack belvedere adjoin us.”
In a after epistle, the applicant explained to the affectionate that he was acquainted of the benevolent attributes of his campaign.
McAfee is no drifter to presidential politics, accepting aboriginal run for the appointment in 2016. After aboriginal announcement his antagonism with the anew formed “Cyber Party” (which is not as bedraggled as it sounds) the viral administrator abutting the chase for the Libertarian choice instead. He polled able-bodied amid Libertarian primary voters, and came in second abode abaft above New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson.
After alive as a programmer for NASA and Lockheed, McAfee struck gold during the aboriginal internet boom, back he alien the antivirus affairs that still bears his name. He eventually awash the software to Intel, forth with his name, afore embarking on a bacchanalia of sometimes-reckless technology investments. After some bad luck in the ‘90s and 2000’s—with some Trumpian echoes—the $100 actor dollar McAfee affluence had diminished to about $4 million, according to the New York Times.
By 2008, his affluence actively in decline, McAfee retired to Belize. By now his acceptability had confused from “eccentric tycoon” to “expat weirdo” and rumors of his affairs became legendary—from his predilections for base drugs and sex yoga, to accoutrements and prostitutes. Eventually McAfee fell afield of bounded badge on suspicion of murder, or—by his own telling—was affected by base officials, leading to a government arrest on his admixture and a flight to Guatemala.
Somewhere in there, McAfee addled gold again, this time in Bitcoin. McAfee has back become a beloved, but crazy, uncle to Twitter’s crypto community, where he consistently shills promising-looking altcoins in barter for a ample allotment of the tokens. A bread address his name went nowhere, although we enjoyed reviewing it.
It’s not absolutely bright what we can apprehend from ‘McAfee 2024’, although accustomed his history, it should at atomic be entertaining.
You ability be wondering why Americans would appetite to vote for a Twitter-addicted, self-adoring available who can’t accomplishment a book and seems to accept had arguable judgement in his best of changeable accompaniment over the years, but this commodity is absolutely about John McAfee.
He ability not be the best articular being to absorb the White House, or the best sane, but he would absolutely be easier to explain than the accepted citizen of the Oval Office.
Disclaimer: The columnist is invested in Bitcoin, which is mentioned in this article. Opinions bidding in this commodity do not necessarily reflect those of all Crypto Briefing staff.
