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    This had me checking, fortunately SBF is currently in jail and almost certainly headed for prison. Also want to drop a reminder that McAfee publicly announced shortly before his death that he had no intention of suicide and expected assassination attempts after his incarceration.

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    Side story here.

    I’ve been in one of McAfee’s houses after he died. A friend texted me one morning asking if I’d like to go to McAfee’s house. He had a friend that recently acquired a prior house of McAfee. Of course, I said yes, and drove 2hours to get there.

    Decent sized house, probably 6k square feet. There was definitely money put into this place. In-ground pool, hot-tub, the works.

    It was just recently acquired. All the furniture in the house was original, left by McAfee! My friend and I were given permission to search the house as far as we wanted, without destroying anything of course. We searched high and low for flash drives, anything really. Searched the dirt “crawlspace” for a bit, you could stand up in there and it looked like someone had been digging around quite a bit.

    The only thing we found was a maybe 6x6inch hole cut out of the drywall behind a dresser, like someone knew were something was and took it out the wall.

    We played pool on a pool table that had dried splattered blood on it. Found tombstone still tied to a pallet out back that had something along the lines of “RIP BTC”, it also had a qr code, I think it linked to LTC, I can’t remember and the picture was lost due to me leaving my sd card in a phone and selling said phone…

    His room was weird, had a pull down like garage door that looked bullet proof and two big doors with wood 6in thick. Probably 50 cameras all over the property.

    Weird tid bit, shortly after the family moved in, they had an influx of people coming by and insisting they owned a piece of furniture that was in the house and they want it back. Some of the people insisted to come in and make sure the furniture isn’t there anymore. They were all declined.

    And that’s my story of the random text I got from a friend to party and search McAfee’s house.

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    If I was rich and crazy, I’d want to be John McAfee, not some failed, pasty crypto-nerd.

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    You mean Sam Bankman-Fried? The guy who fled to the Bahamas and then was arrested and extradited?

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      I’m not sure so much as fled as that’s where FTX was HQd and he owned a ton of shit there that he bought with customer money.

      He didn’t even have the balls to flee.

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      He didn’t flee to the Bahamas. FTX was based out of the Bahamas because it made for good tax dodging.

      Before he was accused of more serious crimes like fraud, he was regularly committing the much more common crimes that companies like Facebook and Google do all the time, pretending that their profits all happen to accrue in some country with friendly corporate tax laws.

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    Sam Bankman-Incarcerated is kinda screwed now thanks to his Sam Bankman-witness-intimidation.

    The judge is pissed would be the understatement of the Sam Bankman-Century.

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    I mean, trea them like the Russian oligarchs and seize their money then. No such thing as a completely ethical billionaire and better to return the money to the original economy.

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    That crypto-scammer was on some kind of super hard-core drug that gets administered through a patch on his skin…I don’t remember what it’s called, but it’s super expensive shit.

    And the creator of McAffee isn’t a real tech-CEO, because the software he created doesn’t work.

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      He didn’t flee, he was based out of the Bahamas to try to evade taxes and regulation, not extradition, this meme isn’t accurate.

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    Oh no, dude forgot to perform the masculinitiddies with a MacGyver stage prop rifle. All is lost, dicks are falling off because of him.

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      What do you mean by “MacGyver stage prop rifle”? I get the impression you’ve never watched any of the versions of MacGyver.

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        And you’d be right, I’ve no interest in ever watching the show. But I meant MacGyver as a stand-in adjective for improvised from whatever he found lying around. Funny enough, someone said it’s probably real, so this IRL MacGyver dude here was killing it (and his neighbor too, quite literally).

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          Ok, then let me explain how off that is. MacGyver’s famous for improvising things that work out of whatever’s lying around. Not for creating realistic looking props that don’t do anything. Another key aspect of the character is that he really hates guns.