A John Mcafee is crypto currency
slang for when a specific crypto currency coin is targeted with misleading and fake news to drive it’s price up or down. The act is often used to artificially inflate or deflate market prices to benefit the purpotrator (the ‘John Mcafee’ benefactor).
The act of ‘pumping’ and/or ‘dumping’ the coin price is then denied and lied about by the perpetrator in order to cover up the immoral act.
The acts of changing the price via fake news or unqualified opinions followed by backtracking, lying and covering up are collectively referred to as committing a John Mcafee.
The term is named after
internet security
guru John Mcafee who has a cult following in the crytocurrency
space. Often his opinions cause
huge movement in coin prices simply down to coming from him and are often contradictory and based on
non-existent evidence.
The term then expanded over time to incorporate cover up and lying about the act after numerous examples of this happening.
The term is now primarily used more widely to highlight a
lie or fake news report that has negatively impacted
something followed by denials and rebuttals.
Vamps, what happen to the price of XVG coin?
Tell me about it, it was John Mcafee’d!
- The coin price was destroyed
due to a John Mcafee.
You hear
Linda blew off Zor last night?
Yeah man Zor got John Mcafee’d, she was told he slept with Naz!
- Someone lied to
Linda and committed a John Mcafee
I was there, he definitely said that and look at what it did!
Yes he pulled a John Mcafee and then some!
- Someone is now denying saying something. They are committing a John Mcafee.
