Last summer, John McAfee made headlines when he said he’d, uh, make a meal of his manhood on live TV if bitcoin doesn’t hit $500,000 within three years.

Now, with bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.35% having exploded for a fivefold gain since his prediction to bust through the $11,000 level, the antivirus software pioneer’s self-cannibalizing wager seems at least a little bit less crazy.