- Bitcoin billionaire - Born in 1945 in the UK, raised in the USA - Math genius + lethal programmer - Helped develop software for NASA's Apollo program - Worked at NASA, Xerox, Univac - Killed his abusive father at age 15 - Wanted in several countries, Belize, Guatemala, USA - Survived over 50 assassination attempts - Married a former companion who was literally hired to poison him - Created McAfee Antivirus, the world's first conventional antivirus - Became incredibly wealthy and appeared on Forbes lists - Left his own company before it became a giant - Reinvented himself as a crypto prophet + digital freedom extremist - Ran twice for President of the United States just to troll the system - Mentored the entire "leak culture" and inspired whistleblowers like Edward Snowden - Early Bitcoin whale, made a fortune, lost a fortune, and repeated - Hacked Hillary Clinton's office by sending "free computers" filled with spyware - Belize saga: shootouts, dead dogs, missing neighbors, corrupt police - Lived on a yacht in the Caribbean with former military guards - Openly boasted about never paying income taxes - Used to blackmail US government agencies - Escaped Guatemalan custody by feigning a heart attack - Detained years later in Spain and found dead in prison (Suicide is the official version) - Fans still claim he faked his death and sent coded messages - Part tech pioneer, part outlaw, part cult figure - The most ungovernable man the tech world has ever seen
Is there anything this man could have done to surprise the world?
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Meet John McAfee
- Bitcoin billionaire
- Born in 1945 in the UK, raised in the USA
- Math genius + lethal programmer
- Helped develop software for NASA's Apollo program
- Worked at NASA, Xerox, Univac
- Killed his abusive father at age 15
- Wanted in several countries, Belize, Guatemala, USA
- Survived over 50 assassination attempts
- Married a former companion who was literally hired to poison him
- Created McAfee Antivirus, the world's first conventional antivirus
- Became incredibly wealthy and appeared on Forbes lists
- Left his own company before it became a giant
- Reinvented himself as a crypto prophet + digital freedom extremist
- Ran twice for President of the United States just to troll the system
- Mentored the entire "leak culture" and inspired whistleblowers like Edward Snowden
- Early Bitcoin whale, made a fortune, lost a fortune, and repeated
- Hacked Hillary Clinton's office by sending "free computers" filled with spyware
- Belize saga: shootouts, dead dogs, missing neighbors, corrupt police
- Lived on a yacht in the Caribbean with former military guards
- Openly boasted about never paying income taxes
- Used to blackmail US government agencies
- Escaped Guatemalan custody by feigning a heart attack
- Detained years later in Spain and found dead in prison (Suicide is the official version)
- Fans still claim he faked his death and sent coded messages
- Part tech pioneer, part outlaw, part cult figure
- The most ungovernable man the tech world has ever seen
Is there anything this man could have done to surprise the world?