The passing of John McAfee, the antivirus software magnate turned libertarian rebel, puts us in mind of the time Euromoney went to see him speak at a bitcoin conference on a beach in Thailand.
As we reported in ‘Up bit creek’ in 2018, the conference happened to coincide with a plunge in the cryptocurrency, but McAfee, a keynote speaker, was not deterred.
In his 20 minutes on stage, he took the opportunity to call the US dollar a fraud, advocate the decriminalization of marijuana, call 90% of crypto white papers scams, talk about a new scheme to help a collective of US prostitutes develop their own token system, and to attack Jamie Dimon, the US government, every other government as well, and all of banking.
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