June 23, 2021 In a Spanish jail cell, John McAfee departed from this world forever. His death occurred only hours after the Spanish High Court decided to extradite him to the United States, on charges of tax evasion. This action left many doubtful and confused, with more questions than answers.
The late John McAfee is one of crypto’s most memorable characters. He has become iconic in this space forever more.
Most people using computers from the 1990s to the present day know the McAfee name. In 1987, he developed the first commercial anti-virus software and formed McAfee Associates. In 1994, he left the firm. This departure is where his legacy truly began.
Prior to this, in 1968, McAfee had found employment as a programmer for NASA’s Institute for Space studies. He worked on the Apollo program, became a software designer for Univac, where he excelled, rising to become an operating architect for Xerox.
Whilst employed for Lockheed Martin in 1986, McAfee read about the Brain computer virus that affected many domestic personal computers. What he learned terrified him. It prompted him to create antivirus software that could detect the computer virus and remove it automatically.
During this time, he gave the world foundational cyber security, with the earliest instant messaging protocols, investments in firewalls and other antivirus software. Being a man who took joy in solving complex problems, he endeavoured to discover and develop medicines using natural remedies from the heart of Belize, a Central American country known for its stunning barrier reefs, its big cats and even bigger homicide rate.
The narrative that follows is a chaotic affair.
John McAfee had a property in San Pedro, a town on the southern part of the island of Ambergris Caye. Located in the Belize District of the nation of Belize, Central America. As he tells it, “One of the most beautiful fucking places on this planet by the way, if it weren’t for the fact of the people there”.
After 3 years in this paradise, McAfee ventured into the heart of the Belizean jungle and bought a large property. He spent millions of dollars transforming it into a secure compound, with a laboratory in which he planned to use to develop antibiotic research. This compound was staffed with dangerous people, all heavily armed and well versed in combat, necessary for such a violent climate.
These actions caught the eyes of the authorities, which was unwise. A year and a half later, the local political authority in the largest district in Belize approached McAfee. They informed him of an upcoming election. It would be prudent, they told him, to donate 2 million dollars toward their political party. In return, he would receive a million acres across the river, tax breaks and all the women he could ever want. John refused this offer.
One week later, 47 armed soldiers of the gang suppression unit stormed McAfee’s home and arrested him. During this arrest, they proceeded to shoot John’s dog in the head. It exploded right before his eyes. The next day, the extortionist that asked for the donation the week before came back to McAfee’s home. Expressing sorrow for the events, he blamed it on bad intel. He then proceeded to ask, “Have you reconsidered your donation?”
Hurt to his core from the brutal loss of his dog the night before, McAfee replied very politely, “Get off my property before I shoot you in the head right now.” Gripping a 357 Magnum held at the ground, he repeated, “Get off my property, never return, or else I will kill you. Do you understand me?”.
Knowing his vulnerabilities, living in the wild lands of the country, McAfee made his way back to the American Enclave of San Pedro in Belize. He believed the U.S presence would deter unlawful attacks from the Belizean Government.
Direct attacks were no longer an option. One night McAfee’s dogs were poisoned, the next day John’s neighbour was murdered. This prompted John to skip town.
John McAfee’s life in Belize was also the topic of a 2016 showcase titled “Gringo: John McAfee’s Dangerous Life.” The documentary includes allegations of drug use and rape, even claiming that McAfee was involved in the murder of his neighbour. This eventually forced him to flee the nation. Many of John McAfee’s close associates appeared in the documentary, making these allegations against him. In a YouTube video titled ‘More Testimony from People Lied to and Paid by Showtime,’ individuals that made these claims recanted, stating they were coerced by the network to make the accusations.
The story was later picked up by Channel 5 Belize, but even this did not prompt the documentary to make corrections. Today, ‘Gringo: John McAfee’s Dangerous Life’ can still be found on Netflix. It still contains statements about John that have since been denounced by the people who were coerced into making them.
Back in the U.S, in the public eye once more, John decided to run for president under the libertarian party. He used the platform to highlight his very real fears over the future of cyber security in the world. He reminded us that in these divided times, we stand in unison against a ridiculous, sick, twisted political machine. One that uses lies as a sleight-of-hand to obfuscate the darker elements of our reality.
His grand vision was financial freedom for humanity and liberation from tyrants who wish to control the masses. If nothing else, crypto suited his specific brand of insane. At all turns, he was despised, a terrible joke, a deadly severe warning, a clown, a prophet, a priest, a soothsayer, a shit-coiner, a genuine believer. He was extraordinary, whatever he was.
McAfee truly dove deep into the sphere of decentralization. He established Future Tense, which aimed to provide a decentralized network tool to transfer messages and data to mesh networks beyond the web. He established Ghost, a privacy coin that was developed to create anonymous transactions. He was the world’s largest ICO shiller for 2017, costing over $100,000 with the use of a single tweet. This was frowned upon, as John McAfee was not Elon Musk.
He is known for many famous remarks, one of them being a tweet on July 17, 2017, where he stated “I will eat my own dick on national television” if Bitcoin were not at $500,000 in three years.
With public statements like those regarding crypto and advocating for people not to pay taxes, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) did not stay silent for long, McAfee began to move into a new phase — on the run and tweeting from his boat to his million plus supporters.
He declared that he was running from the U.S. authorities in Jan 2019. This did not stop him from running for president again in 2020. McAfee was eventually detained in Spain on the 5th of October 2020 for tax evasion. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of New York stated on the 5th of March 2020 that he had been formally indicted. On 6th October 2020, the SEC accused McAfee of receiving more than $23.1 million worth of cryptocurrency assets. They accused him of promoting several ICO token sales without disclosing that he had been paid to do so, along with charges that he “wilfully attempted to evade” payment of income taxes.
Then, on the 23rd of June 2021, the national court of Spain allowed his extradition. A few hours later, it was claimed he had committed suicide, after promising to call his wife later that same night. The late John McAfee had made a tweet in 2019 that simply stated “Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: ‘We’re coming for you McAfee! We’re going to kill yourself’. I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn’t. I was whackd. Check my right arm. $WHACKD”.
Along with this tweet was a picture displaying his now iconic $WHACKD tattoo. The tweet went viral after his death. Adding to the mystery, on the day of his death, a smart contract was triggered on the Whackd tokens contract, named “Epstein”. The coins value rose by more than 700%.
The letter Q was posted onto John’s official Instagram page, adding fuel to the conspiratorial elements of the story, and attracting members from the QAnon groups. The conviction of foul play and conspiracy increased when John’s Instagram account was suddenly terminated without reason.
At the same time, a website that went by the name of britbonglogpost had appeared online displaying text that read: “Contingency plan activated. Something big is coming.”, with a picture of John McAfee and a timer, which was counting down roughly 28 days to reveal something.
At the bottom of the page, it read, “All the right people are scared, they should be”.
It is difficult to dismiss the suspicion surrounding this subject, especially as a raging hydra of paranoia, confusion and hysteria was unleashed upon McAfee’s death.
A search of web analytics shows a surge in tweets where people expressed the sentiment #McafeeDidntKillHimself.
Clips resurfaced where John commented about the deep state and how it harms people’s lives without fear of retaliation. “Is there a Deep State? Yes. Can we fire these people? No. Can presidents fire them? No. It’s designed that way so political parties and political interests cannot affect the Deep State. Do you understand the nightmare of our situation people?”.
Previous tweets were dug up and suspicious circumstances started to unravel the official narrative. One of those tweets was from October 15, 2020, in which John wrote from prison: “I am content in here, I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, à la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine”.
It is not just the loyal believers who scream foul play. It is not just the libertarians who lost a great icon. It is not just the QAnon types who were at least correct about Epstein, or the computer programmers that respect his endeavours, or the lovers of crypto romanticizing financial freedom from centralized banks.
It is any free thinking, conscious moral being who understands the concept of wrong and right.
A great injustice has been done to a man who provided so much for this world.
Do not let this be swept under the carpet so easily.
$WHACKD is one small part of the John McAfee legacy. Keep the tokens burning and the Whackd Stacked!
By Con
