Bitcoin hasn’t hit $500K, so now John McAfee has to eat his own…well, just click
2020 sure does suck so far. But the year might not yet be a complete wash.
still has to eat his dick on live television.
Three years ago on this date, on July 17, 2017, McAfee, the eccentric founder of the antivirus software company bearing his name, made the bet of a lifetime.
Bitcoub’s low of $1,800+ yesterday simply could not be maintained. In the long term Bitcoin moves above $500,000 within three years. Bets?
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) July 17, 2017
McAfee made a bet that in three years a single bitcoin (1 BTC) would be worth $500,000.
Now while most people would throw down money to make this bet, McAfee had a very different idea.
if not, I will eat my dick on national television.
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) July 17, 2017
In a reply to Twitter user @DogMagUra, who was simply double-checking McAfee’s claim that 1 BTC would be worth $500,000 in three years, the unconventional software millionaire and former “person of interest” in a murder investigation responded:
“If not, I will eat my dick on national television.”
McAfee probably thought it was a winning bet at the time. The cryptocurrency news on July 17, 2017 great — Bitcoin had just fallen below $2,000 after a big uptick — but later that year it would hit its all-time high: $19,800.
Fast forward to July 17, 2020, three years from the day McAfee made his bet. Today, a bitcoin is worth around $9,150. It’s certainly up from three years ago, sure. But we’re far away from $500,000. The wor
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