John McAfee has already imposed himself as a leading personality in the world of cryptocurrency. With his background in programming and cybersecurity, he seems to be quite fascinated by the decentralized technology and what it has to offer the world.

We had a conversation with him during the cruise in Asia, which took place in January. 15-19, and discovered how he looks for coins to promote, if he has any regrets about them and why Blockchain is the best thing that has happened to mankind.

Crypto Daria: You have 700,000 followers on Twitter. Do you realize how much influence you have on crypto and think it's positive?

John McAfee: Of course! I mean for the cryptocurrency community which is a pretty big number of followers. But it's not just that. I also speak at all major conferences, I am friends with Jihan Wu of BITMAIN – the main maker of almost all Bitcoin miners, Roger Ver, for example, or Brock Pierce is my party animal with whom I party. I have as much influence in this area as I do with my followers. In fact, even more. To sit down with Roger Ver and Jihan Wu and talk about Bitcoin Cash – I think it's much more influential than tweeting to 700,000 people.

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John McAfee speaking in front of the public during the cruise in Asia, January 2018

CD: How do you decide which piece to promote, how do you Do you research?

JM : First and foremost, principles capable of actually producing what they say.Can you develop the product in a timely manner? Do you have the team in place that includes the blockchain, the software, the market? But the most important is something that I would like to use myself. Like Outings – hell, yes, j & # 39; Would love to use this program Ok, I will pay a dollar to get the info that I can get from the AP. The same with coin coins e .I would like to have this facility – the KWHCoin. I mean, I've had a lot of houses that were out of the grid. There is no bigger nightmare than having more electricity than what you can use and it gets lost; or do not have enough. So, to be able to transfer to the electricity company through tokens and someone in a place that has access to allow me to buy from them. Who would not want this installation? So, if it's something I personally want – yes, if they can do it, it's a good idea, if it's helpful to society – there's something that I'm Would like to pass on to my children. So yes. I would talk about it. Because if I do not talk about it, then who else? Nobody reads these white papers.

CD: Do you evaluate the pieces differently over time?

JM : Yes, of course. Everyone makes mistakes, you know. At first, they said it was a good idea and that they were not successful in doing so.

CD: Has anyone ever tried to pay you for mentioning his project and if so, what were the projects?

JM : I would say that they have definitely tried to pay me. I will not talk about my personal finances where I earn my money or who. I 'm setting up on stage because that' s my business and it should be everyone 's business. And in fact, I think it's rude to ask such questions to people.

CD: Do you feel responsible for the weight of your words and the pumps that flow from them?

JM : Absolutely not. Imagine if I see something the world needs to know, I'll say it. No meaning in me being the only one to know. I do not want to whisper it to my friends. It's not much worse? The fact that people take this and pump it, and empty it – it's their business, not mine. I mean look on the verge token. I've said that Verge would probably double in price in the next few months, well he has risen fifteen thousand percent. I'm not joking. I've included Verge (XVG) because it's a legitimate piece of privacy and it also sells for less than three hundred. If you know how to invest, you know it's easier for a 3 cent coin to go up to $ 3, than for a $ 300 coin, for $ 30,000 – even increase.

– John McAfee (@officialmcafee) December 14, 2017

It's not my fault if people will buy it at twenty cents. I thought that two hundred was a lot of money! That's not my problem, you know, I'm just recommending it. Because [company] has respect for privacy [coin] and he has the opportunity with the race protocol to become a real point of intimacy. When it's going to happen now, I do not know. But it's not worth it.

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And for others: if people want to be greedy and consider this arena as a way to make money – well, they deserve what they could look at below and say : it's a revolution! Unlike everything the world has ever seen, so forget the money! Why do not you look at the utility, the potency of the token or the coin and how It could change your life and that of your friends, family and children, I will not stop doing this, you can throw me as many rotten tomatoes as you want, call me the names you want. Do not hurt me, you think I'm going to worry about what people call me, what they say about me, I m …

CD: Of course. have regrets or disappointments about the parts you mentioned?

JM : Yes, of course. I regret the piece FINA

2nd ICO this week: piece FINA. It eliminates fraud in the marine and aerospace industries – now costing over $ 1 billion a year. It's also the first coin to fight terrorism and human trafficking – my hot buttons. This one is unique and stellar. https://t.co/cWU6KJzKmw – John McAfee (@officialmcafee) January 5, 2018

I later found out that one of the founders was a member of the company. a Nigerian criminal organization. It's hard to know all the facts until someone says "By the way, we have resources and we've discovered that." I immediately tweeted and said that I apologize and I have resumed my recommendation.

I was presented with evidence that the OIC of the FINA was being organized by an individual associated with a known Nigerian criminal organization. I have no proof that they will not follow and will not inscribe the parts or develop a product, but I must withdraw my support. Details to come – John McAfee (@officialmcafee) January 10, 2018

But that is the nature of the case. I mean if we are in a whole new economy, any new paradigm if I do not walk in the mud bubbles that I'm not doing my job.

CD: What is your number one advice for cryptographic investors?

JM : There is none. Because everything I recommend today will change tomorrow. There will be something that will come and replace it. I believe that the future of cryptocurrency lies in new emerging coin technologies and creative ideas that emerge across ICOs. And everyone forgets that. People seem to be just worried about making money – "Will Bitcoin go up or down?" "Will Ethereum go up or down?" "Will there be Meme it another fork in Bitcoin? "," What's it going to be? " "Is it bitcoin or a cash bitcoin?" Live it, it has nothing to do with these things. It has to do with what comes behind us, what emerges from the earth and what will change our future. We forget that real events, attitudes, products and creations, that change lives, change culture. And we have to watch them. If not – we will miss something and good things will drown and drown in the trash. This is the global sea of ​​ICOs. We already know, what Bitcoin is, we know what Ethereum is. Well, do what you want with it. Start digging into the new technologies out there. There will be a Henry Ford, there will be the concept equivalent to the railroad, there will be something that will change our lives in such a beautiful way, that if we miss it, we will regret it for life.

CD: Are you worried about the recent dip in Bitcoin prices, given your promise in the event of a fall?

JM : Not at all. When Jamie Dimon announced that Bitcoin was a fraud, Bitcoin dropped 40% in a matter of hours. I do not worry then, I'm not worried now. When I predicted Bitcoin at $ 500,000 by the end of 2020, he used a model that provided $ 5,000 by the end of 2017. BTC accelerated much faster than my model assumptions. I now predict Bircoin at $ 1 million by the end of 2020. I will still eat my dick if it does not go. pic.twitter.com/WVx3E71nyD

– John McAfee (@officialmcafee) November 29, 2017

CD: What made you make that promise in the first place?

JM : I was on TV and it just came out. They said, "Will Bitcoin fall?" And I said, "I'm going to eat my my genitals if it's not five hundred thousand dollars." And that's back when Bitcoin was four thousand dollars. What I thought was going to be wrong, I thought I was wrong, so my projections are wrong, I changed it to a million dollars.You will see, that will happen.

CD: In your opinion, what caused the recent fall of the market and what to expect next?

JM ]: The same thing that caused the initial crash of Bitcoin, which was JP Morgan, one of the largest banks in the world and certainly the largest bank in the US All banks are terrified. everyone is a bank now and we will not need banks anymore Banks will disappear if they do not do something

CD: Your Twitter account seems to be a constant victim of hacks. How is it going?

JM : It was hacked only once. I know exactly how it happened, because the people who made it even contacted me. They used a new technique called SIM Swapping. At first I thought they were not hacking my account – I can not be active. I thought that they hacked Twitter, but what they did, they hacked into my AT & T carrier, which is the biggest carrier. So what they did, using social engineering, continued to call the local offices until they found the hero friendly. "Oh, I'm calling John McAfee, I've lost my SIM cards, I've got a new one, can you change my account?" And finally someone did it. My phone has stopped working. Then they went on Twitter and said that I had forgotten my password, please, send it to my phone.

Urgent: My account has been hacked. Twitter has been notified. The room of the day was not me. As you all know … I'm not doing a piece of the day anymore !!!! – John McAfee (@officialmcafee) December 27, 2017

And so they sent a code to what is supposed to be on my phone but it's their phone. They use this code, change my password, and stay on for two and a half hours while I struggle to get home. I finally found myself in the mail. I have never heard of this technique before. This is a new social engineering technique of hackling. So it was not Twitter, it was AT & T. I complained to AT & T; they did not do anything. What I did was that I removed the two-factor authentication, so if I had not had two-factor authentication, they would not have it. Could not have hacked me. So now, what was the best way to protect yourself, has turned out to be the worst, because if you have your phone number, then they can get it; they can enter and send that. If you do not have a phone number, they can not send the code anywhere, and they have to find my password, which is impossible.

CD: How do you perceive the fundamental philosophy behind cryptocurrency?

JM : Well, the basic philosophy is one of the largest in the world – "take away power from centralized agencies! when it compresses into a large entity, it always becomes corrupt. And power always corrupts if you are an individual or a company. So [the Blockchain technology] removes that and we distribute that power. So, this means that the whole structure of civilization will relax and reassemble itself as it should have been from the beginning. We, as people, have our own freedom, our own power. Do not have to ask permission or permission from the government before you can do something. Like sending money to someone or receiving money, or buying something as long as I do not hurt you or do not do my neighborhood. So why should I ask permission from anyone to do something? So that's what happens, we enter a world without permission, where when we reach adulthood, wherever it is, in any country and in Central America, that's what happens. 39, is the age of 12 years (* note: in Central American countries the legal age ranges from 14 to 18 years), in America it is 21, when you become an adult, you become your own master. You do not need to ask permission from anyone to do anything. It's change and it's what will take this world and finally give us the opportunity to create Eden, to create perfection. Now we are going to screw it, we still do it, but even by screwing it – it would be much better than what exists today.

CD: And how do you see the future of the crypto industry?

JM : It will explode. I mean we are just in childhood right now. As I mentioned, every aspect of life gets its own currency and should have its own currency. He needs his own room. Because each piece has a different function or should have. So, it's going to be like the internet when it started. Only a hundred times deeper, deeper and will have an impact that I probably can not ignore, you plan even five years of absence. 19459004 19459005 CD: Thank you for taking the time!

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