Famed laptop programmer, eccentric and cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee has introduced that he's engaged on a privateness coin known as Ghost.O
Famed laptop programmer, eccentric and cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee has introduced that he’s engaged on a privateness coin known as Ghost.
On April 11, McAfee tweeted that Ghost can be underpinned by a Proof-of-Stake algorithm, and can be tradable in opposition to main cryptocurrencies by way of atomic swaps on the McAfeeDex decentralized trade.
“With a DEX/privateness coin combo we now have full management of our funds!” he stated.
Ghost privateness coin includes McAfee’s newest crypto stunt
McAfee, who claims he’s wished in the USA for tax evasion, has been a long-time advocate of cryptocurrency and a determine of controversy throughout the business.
In 2018, John McAfee started to brazenly settle for sums of $105,000 in trade for tweets selling cryptocurrencies — claiming to have been receiving the charges for over six months on the time.
He additionally cited an ad-hoc research carried out by Vice which discovered that his promotional tweets drove short-term worth beneficial properties of between 50% and 350%.
In August 2019, McAfee was embroiled in an obscure dispute with South China Zombie Analysis Centre (SCZRC), the builders behind Zombie Coin — a gimmicky preliminary coin providing that paid McAfee $4.5 million to draft its whitepaper and promote its ICO.
After paying McAfee upfront, he u-turned on the undertaking and declared it to be a “shitcoin,” prompting the SCZRC to threaten him with a $100 million lawsuit.
McAfee launches Jeffrey Epstein-themed ERC-20
The final crypto-asset launched by Mcafee was an ERC-20 token dubbed “Epstein Did Not Kill Himself” below the ticker WHACKD.
The token seems to be completely buying and selling on McAfee’s decentralized trade, nonetheless, it has subsequent to zero liquidity — with the present order unfold starting from three satoshis on the buy-side and 12 satoshis on the sell-side.
Simply two transactions seem to have been processed by the WHACKD community prior to now 24 hours.