• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1074·
    1 year ago

    This had me checking, fortunately SBF is currently in jail and almost certainly headed for prison. Also want to drop a reminder that McAfee publicly announced shortly before his death that he had no intention of suicide and expected assassination attempts after his incarceration.

    • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
      331·
      1 year ago

      John McAfee the man that paid women to take a dump on him from a hammock above him?

      That John McAfee?

            • jarfil@lemmy.world
              42·
              1 year ago

              Well… who knows. He was held for 8 months in somewhat of a quantum flux prison.

              According to the same DailyMirror article:

              • Jun 23, 2021 (Google link) - Spanish prison where John McAfee was found dead ‘is like the Hilton’
              • 24 Jun 2021 (In-article title) - Prison in Spain where John McAfee was found dead in apparent suicide serves ‘stale bread and cold hot dogs’, has two bunk beds per cell and two inmates killed themselves in May

              …so who knows. Maybe he even committed suicide and was assassinated at the same time! /s

      • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
        303·
        1 year ago

        He was definitely odd, but even a broken clock is right twice a day; He hated what his old company has become, and at least owned up to the fact that he had a lady shit on his chest. When asked about it in interviews, he basically said something along the lines of “when you’re richer than God and have had sex with gorgeous women every day, things start to get stale and you look for more and more extreme things to get you going.”

        He also 100% predicted that he was going to be Epstein’ed in a prison cell. He was very outspoken about the fact that he wasn’t suicidal and if he was ever found to have committed suicide, that it was a hit job. He specifically tweeted something along the lines of “if I’m ever found to have hanged myself, it wasn’t a suicide. It was a whack job.” He was found dead in a prison cell, with the death ruled a suicide by hanging. Which is either prophetic (he believed the US had a bounty on him, so he was very paranoid about getting murdered with the government covering it up,) or the best troll ever.

        • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.comEnglish
          242·
          1 year ago

          I think it really was just an epic troll. The man had run out his cash reserves, was at an age where he must’ve started feeling old. Spent decades experimenting wildly with drugs. He was by every outward metric a broken person. And also a person that valued his freedom to do whatever above everything else. Prison, forced clean and facing the very real possibility of never tasting freedom again. I just can’t imagine that he wouldn’t snap, which is a failure of the state to not keep him safe while in their ward. He was also extremely action oriented, he wasn’t the type to contemplate suicide, it’s either do it or don’t.

          • _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz
            24·
            1 year ago

            Getting sober for the first time in decades, without proper medical support, is enough to become suicidal for sure. Hell, even with proper support, the psychological adjustment can be overwhelming.

        • Steeve@lemmy.caEnglish
          133·
          1 year ago

          He was very outspoken about the fact that he wasn’t suicidal and if he was ever found to have committed suicide, that it was a hit job

          The dude was also just fucking insane from 50 years of drug use lol. Wouldn’t be surprised if committed suicide to troll the world or for his own crazy meth head paranoia reasons, but he was probably just crashing hard.

          • Archer@lemmy.world
            11·
            1 year ago

            If your conspiracy depends on John McAfee not telling people things you’ve already failed

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          1 year ago

          He also 100% predicted that he was going to be [killed]

          And if you can’t trust him, who can you trust?

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, tough I don’t think it looks that hot nowadays, last I checked the body was still being kept in the prision he died near me as nobody claimed the body EDIT: Wrong, news article in comments below.

  • NaturalViber@lemmy.world
    91·
    1 year ago

    Side story here.

    I’ve been in one of McAfee’s houses after he died. A friend texted me one morning asking if I’d like to go to McAfee’s house. He had a friend that recently acquired a prior house of McAfee. Of course, I said yes, and drove 2hours to get there.

    Decent sized house, probably 6k square feet. There was definitely money put into this place. In-ground pool, hot-tub, the works.

    It was just recently acquired. All the furniture in the house was original, left by McAfee! My friend and I were given permission to search the house as far as we wanted, without destroying anything of course. We searched high and low for flash drives, anything really. Searched the dirt “crawlspace” for a bit, you could stand up in there and it looked like someone had been digging around quite a bit.

    The only thing we found was a maybe 6x6inch hole cut out of the drywall behind a dresser, like someone knew were something was and took it out the wall.

    We played pool on a pool table that had dried splattered blood on it. Found tombstone still tied to a pallet out back that had something along the lines of “RIP BTC”, it also had a qr code, I think it linked to LTC, I can’t remember and the picture was lost due to me leaving my sd card in a phone and selling said phone…

    His room was weird, had a pull down like garage door that looked bullet proof and two big doors with wood 6in thick. Probably 50 cameras all over the property.

    Weird tid bit, shortly after the family moved in, they had an influx of people coming by and insisting they owned a piece of furniture that was in the house and they want it back. Some of the people insisted to come in and make sure the furniture isn’t there anymore. They were all declined.

    And that’s my story of the random text I got from a friend to party and search McAfee’s house.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    60·
    1 year ago

    If I was rich and crazy, I’d want to be John McAfee, not some failed, pasty crypto-nerd.

  • mozingo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    481·
    1 year ago

    You mean Sam Bankman-Fried? The guy who fled to the Bahamas and then was arrested and extradited?

    • stevehobbes@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure so much as fled as that’s where FTX was HQd and he owned a ton of shit there that he bought with customer money.

      He didn’t even have the balls to flee.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      42·
      1 year ago

      He didn’t flee to the Bahamas. FTX was based out of the Bahamas because it made for good tax dodging.

      Before he was accused of more serious crimes like fraud, he was regularly committing the much more common crimes that companies like Facebook and Google do all the time, pretending that their profits all happen to accrue in some country with friendly corporate tax laws.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    1 year ago

    Sam Bankman-Incarcerated is kinda screwed now thanks to his Sam Bankman-witness-intimidation.

    The judge is pissed would be the understatement of the Sam Bankman-Century.

  • Holyginz@lemmy.world
    171·
    1 year ago

    I mean, trea them like the Russian oligarchs and seize their money then. No such thing as a completely ethical billionaire and better to return the money to the original economy.

    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      He didn’t flee, he was based out of the Bahamas to try to evade taxes and regulation, not extradition, this meme isn’t accurate.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    112·
    1 year ago

    That crypto-scammer was on some kind of super hard-core drug that gets administered through a patch on his skin…I don’t remember what it’s called, but it’s super expensive shit.

    And the creator of McAffee isn’t a real tech-CEO, because the software he created doesn’t work.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    135·
    1 year ago

    Oh no, dude forgot to perform the masculinitiddies with a MacGyver stage prop rifle. All is lost, dicks are falling off because of him.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      What do you mean by “MacGyver stage prop rifle”? I get the impression you’ve never watched any of the versions of MacGyver.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        And you’d be right, I’ve no interest in ever watching the show. But I meant MacGyver as a stand-in adjective for improvised from whatever he found lying around. Funny enough, someone said it’s probably real, so this IRL MacGyver dude here was killing it (and his neighbor too, quite literally).

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          1 year ago

          Ok, then let me explain how off that is. MacGyver’s famous for improvising things that work out of whatever’s lying around. Not for creating realistic looking props that don’t do anything. Another key aspect of the character is that he really hates guns.