John McAfee has actually highlighted his eccentricities for a very long time. More just recently, he’s been highlighting cryptocurrencies too.
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Ah, McAfee, you have actually done it once again.
John McAfee, the anti-virus software application leader whose bio consists of a murder allegation, has let it be understood that he’s charging $105,000 per tweet promoting a cryptocurrency or a preliminary coin offering (ICO).
Using his profitable Twitter account, the self-proclaimed “crypto visionary” tweeted to his 811,000 fans a link to The McAfee Crypto Team site on how his marketing tweets work.
We lastly documented how our marketing tweets work. It’s self aggrandizing and ego rubbing for us, nevertheless, if you’re preparing an ICO, attempting to increase a coin or wish to shine a light on your newest job, you need to ignore our inflamed egos and see: https://t.co/O6TBWrxDzm
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) March 30, 2018
“Within the cryptocurrency industry, nothing can match the power of a McAfee tweet,” the page checks out. “Frequently, a single tweet has resulted in more than a million dollars of investment into an ICO, and multiple currencies have increased more than 100 percent in price from a single tweet.”
An ICO permits possible purchasers to purchase a cryptocurrency prior to launch. ICOs are utilized to assist money the advancement of a brand-new currency. If the innovation is genuine, it can be great to get in early prior to it begins getting traded easily on exchanges.
McAfee started weighing in on cryptocurrencies in 2015 by tweeting his “ coin of the day,” which might have led to little spikes in a coin’s worth. When his Twitter account was hacked in December to promote lesser-known cryptocurrencies, McAfee minimized his recommendations to when a week.
Whether McAfee’s Twitter account does sway cryptocurrency markets has actually been tested. Recently, throughout 3 weeks, Motherboard tracked McAfee’s tweets about alternative cryptocurrencies. It discovered that their market price did soar. Burstcoin’s worth, for instance, leapt 350 percent.
