Hello All,
Some of you may or may not know that I have extensive experience in blockchain technology, and run several businesses utilizing the technology... with and without smart contracts.
The ethereum address attached to the Q picture in McAfee's instagram... might be a scam attempt from one of his social media guys.
The reason I say this:
Every transaction on mainnet ethereum have been triggering the transfer function on a WHACK'D ERC20 token, sending back and forth with UniSwap... which is a decentralized exchange protocol. Meaning there is a very good chance whoever it is is just trying to earn easy free money off the news.
That being said... it's very weird, and if that address starts processing transactions with signed message data, or anything significant that I see, I will let you know.
But for right now, this looks like it could be the social media guy trying to make a quick buck.
For what it's worth. I don't believe McAfee is actually dead. Something weird is going on behind this, but that ethereum address I think is a bit of a distraction.
He did claim to have body doubles (including one who changed his name to "John MacAfee" and those who had plastic surgery to look like him).
I never bought into the idea of clones or body doubles. It's so absurd because not even Hollywood has the means to perfectly recreate someone no matter how hard they try. The ONLY way to really recreate someone is CGI. That's it. Nothing else that we know of works and there is virtually 0 evidence supporting this.
I didn't either, but spend more time digging and you'll change your tune.