John McAfee Loses Bet: Bitcoin Hasn't Hit $500K (mashable.com) 49
Slashdot reader Charlotte Web quotes Mashable:
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. 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 **** on national television...."
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 world may be very different from the one we were living in three years ago, but a bet is a bet.
Many on Twitter reminded McAfee that it was time to make good on his bet.
McAfee's response? He appears to be chickening out... "The bet was the end 8f 2020."
McAfee also tweeted that at the end of 2020, he'd still honor the bet.
"Myself, or, perhaps, a subcontractor :)"
Now while most people would throw down money to make this bet, McAfee had a very different idea. "if not, I will eat my **** on national television...."
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 world may be very different from the one we were living in three years ago, but a bet is a bet.
Many on Twitter reminded McAfee that it was time to make good on his bet.
McAfee's response? He appears to be chickening out... "The bet was the end 8f 2020."
McAfee also tweeted that at the end of 2020, he'd still honor the bet.
"Myself, or, perhaps, a subcontractor :)"
Well (Score:1)
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If I were in his shoes I'd go to a restaurant that serves pizzle and eat up on camera. Thus he would eating 'his' dick.
So stewed would be the answer.
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There's also the classic British pudding "spotted dick"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Madness. Honor clearly dictates he subvert the spirit of the boast as little as possible. Next you'll be saying he can get away with naming a piece of bacon "Richard", or some other such lunacy. For shame!
Intrinsic null value of Bitcoin (Score:3, Insightful)
Why do you [starless] propagate the FP-abuse Subject?
Here's my new energy saving cryptocurrency NWBC (No-Work-Bit-Coin). It consists of the first 21 million positive integers. Each integer will become valid as a NWBC on a certain date. Without loss of generality, we can set the schedule to correspond to the mining schedule for Bitcoins, but without doing any of the computation. Instead, we will simply have a lottery to give out the NWBCs at random to any person who has asked to receive a NWBC. The demand wi
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I assume he means to suck on it, and swallow.
That said, I know very few people who are flexible enough they could actually accomplish such a task.
Live television (Score:5, Funny)
He said "within three years", so he's already welching. You know it, I know it, he knows it.
Doesn't matter though, his second excuse then will be that the damn obscenity laws won't let him do it. In which case we should petition the FCC for a one day exemption.
Following that, his excuse will be that he didn't say when do it .. only that he would do it.
Yeah so he's a welcher.
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He has another excuse, have you seen the man? He's basically and old retiree with a podgy midsection and at that age likely severe mobility issues of the spine. Let's see him bend over to touch his knees before we start petitioning for laws allowing grandpa auto-fellatio on TV.
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Give him a break. It's going to take a *lot* of yoga before he can pay up.
We are talking about John McAfee (Score:2)
Odds are, he’s probably already done it at least once in the past - the only new bit would be the “televised” part.
No Thanks, John (Score:2)
Not that anyone wants to know, but... (Score:3, Informative)
At least eating your own poop won't make you sick [gawker.com].
Yes, I got curious enough to look up whether it was safe to eat your own poop. You know, just in case I pulled a McAfee one day and was compelled to do so. Or, if I was ever tortured into the act.
Admit it, you were wondering the same thing...
Re:Not that anyone wants to know, but... (Score:4, Informative)
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A few of the whores he's paid said they were paid to shit into his mouth.
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What a waste of money, so many of his clients would have done it pro bono.
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His bet was that he would eat his own dick, not his poop.
The summary says he promised to eat his ****, so you're both wrong.
Now we know about Pollux's Saturday afternoon (Score:2)
Well I guess it's nice to know that's how you spend your Saturday afternoons - Googling eating shit.
Now that we know about that, do you have a comment about McAfee's pledge to suck his own dick on national TV?
I'm just messing with you. You're a cool person, and one of the more reasonable ans thoughtful people on Slashdot.
HA! (Score:2)
Well, that just is a kick in the rear! Serves me right for jumping at the opportunity to score some mod points with some quick wit inferred from the summary without any RTFA. Request to the Editors: please insert the first letter of a censored word to avoid any wrong and/or embarrassing interpretations of its meaning. Thank you.
Actually, most of my Saturday afternoons are spent watching my son play classic Super Nintendo. He's twice as good at half the age when I first beat LttP. But thanks for the co
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No, I wasn't actually wondering the same thing. The summary is misleading as it censors the word "dick" completely, but I will admit I thought the censored word was"shit". But NEVER have I thought of eating my own or anyone else's shit.
My thoughts actually turned to Divine eating dog shit in Pink Flamingos, a movie which I thankfully barely remember watching some 30-40 years ago.
"I guess it’s one of the most famous scenes I ever shot. Certainly no one ever tried to do it again. It was a first, a las
shocked (Score:3)
A spoiled rich brat welshing on a bet? I'm shocked... shocked I say!
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There are of reasons for people to dislike him, but I'm not sure I'd call him a spoiled brat. Especially with regards to a...physically unlikely boast.
Re:shocked (Score:4, Insightful)
I wouldn't call him a spoiled brat either. I'd call him a flamboyantly narcissistic a-hole. Why people pay any attention to this piece of shit is beyond me.
Bon appetit, John! (Score:2)
Rash bets can make for unpleasant payoffs.
I can't see him doing this (Score:2)
As he is already full of shit
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where is will ferrell? (Score:1)
Coprophagia (Score:1)
(borrowed from here [nih.gov]. )
Its wikipedia entry [wikipedia.org] mentions some interesting facts::
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By the end of 2020 (Score:2)
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Have you seen what's on Netflix? They broadcast pretty much anything.
Either... (Score:2)
He is very flexible or, someone will loan him a knife, a frying pan, and ketchup.
Censored? (Score:2)
This is why you don't censor things like this. I know he said he'd his **** from the summary. Shit? Dick? Hair? Pork?
What is he chickening out on?
"Dick", say it! (Score:2)
Why is Mashable so threatened by the idea of quoting him directly? DICK. Say it, you cunt, D-I-C-K.
Worthless cunts.
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Wait, is it DICK or CUNT? Make up your mind!
He think he will honor the bet, not what you think (Score:1)
Some ways to save face... (Score:1)