Crypto Stories: John McAfee tells the story of how he first found out about Bitcoin

From the Cointelegraph archives, John McAfee tells his crypto communicative and takes a look backmost astatine his precise fascinating life.

Early successful his life, the machine programmer landed a occupation astatine the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, besides known arsenic NASA, and worked connected the world’s archetypal upwind satellite. There, helium learned astir machine information and people’s concerns implicit unauthorized actors gaining entree to backstage data.

McAfee besides shared that helium made each his wealth not from the fashionable “McAfee” antivirus bundle but from different projects. He explained:

“People cognize maine from McAfee, but no, that was not my top success. That was immoderate trivial thing. It was my aboriginal things, which I did not connect my sanction to, that taught maine and made maine each of my money.”

In 2011, McAfee’s friends pressured him into speechmaking the Bitcoin (BTC) achromatic insubstantial published by its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The machine programmer was impressed with the powerfulness of Bitcoin’s mathematics and saw the integer asset’s world-changing potential.

According to McAfee, his introduction to crypto started with being the president and CEO of MGT, which was the world’s sixth largest BTC mining firm, valued astatine $800 million. However, McAfee noted that it yet folded erstwhile BTC sank aft going sky-high.

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The institution was delisted by the New York Stock Exchange, which McAfee claimed was a informing changeable — an effort to soundlessness him and a menace that helium would beryllium destroyed if helium didn’t beryllium quiet. McAfee continued the story:

“First of all, they tried to cod maine successful America erstwhile they convened a expansive jury. I recovered retired astir it beforehand, truthful we near the pursuing time to Florida. We picked up our yacht with Janice, myself, 4 ample dogs and 7 of my unit and sailed away, went to the Bahamas.”

McAfee said that they yet went to Cuba and past to the Dominican Republic, wherever they were arrested earlier getting disconnected the boat.