John McAfee is a true giant of crypto. Since 2016 he has come to take a bigger and bigger role in promoting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and today boasts no less than 845k followers on his Twitter feed. Now the notorious activist and businessman has launched two crypto websites to provide information and support to those investing and working in crypto.
Mcafeemarketcap.com is inspired by the well known price tracking website coinmarketcap.com, and currently offers many of the same features. Founded in early 2018, the site claims to be a “one-stop shop knowledge and information database”, aiming to do one better than existing sites to “bring something unique and valuable to the table.”
Mcafeecryptoteam.com, meanwhile, is focused on those working in the ICO sector. The website aims to be a powerful resource for ICOs at every stage of development, offering strategic analysis, support with white papers, resources for networking and social media support.
McAfee’s varied career took in jobs at NASA and Lockheed Martin before founding the computer virus company McAfee Associates in 1987. The company was hugely successful, and was finally sold to Intel in 2010 for a cool $7.68 billion.
Since then McAfee’s personal fortunes have been mixed. The New York Times reported that the 2008 financial collapse hit the businessman so hard that his net worth dropped from as much as $100 million to as little as $4 million, apparently due to some disastrous real estate investments prior to the crash. Recently, however, his fortunes seem to have revived. He has started up a series of companies including QuorumEx, which aimed to develop natural antibiotics and Cognizant, a smartphone app which keeps track of the permission settings on other installed applications on phones and other devices.
In 2016 McAfee joined MGT Capital Investments, a company focused primarily on social gaming. It was from here on in that the notorious entrepreneur shifted his attention in a big way towards crypto. Whilst initially promoting a move for MGT towards cybersecurity, his priorities shifted towards the mining of Bitcoin, which was beginning to boom. Over the last two years he has been involved with a string of promotional stunts and outrageous claims which have led to him being at the forefront of crypto. In 2017 he claimed that the price of Bitcoin would reach $1 million by 2020. Today’s news goes even further to establish him at the head of the blockchain revolution.
