BREAKDOWN: John McAfee and the End of Crypto’s Gonzo Era
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
An unignorable icon’s passing marks the end of an important early age in crypto.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Circle.
The passing of an icon in crypto necessitates reflection. John McAfee was at times reviled, and at the same time, deadly serious and a prophet, sometimes a clown. The many facets to his personality mirror the roller-coaster history of crypto, a Wild West of finance in its earliest days.
Join NLW in this episode of “The Breakdown” for a journey first through the winding history of McAfee, followed by a narrative tour of the many flashpoints in the “gonzo” era of early crypto.
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| 0:49.8 | John McAfee died yesterday. He was 75. However it happened, it happened. And with it, something |
| 0:56.1 | larger passed too. And sure, there are still some gonzo people. But overall, with every week that |
| 1:01.8 | passes, the industry becomes a little less gonzo and a little more Goldman Sachs. |
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| 1:25.5 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, June 24th. |
| 1:29.5 | Hunter S. Thompson wrote, |
| 1:31.1 | Some may never live, but the crazy never die. |
| 1:35.2 | Yesterday, John McCaffee died in his Spanish prison cell, |
| 1:38.5 | waiting to be extradited back to the U.S. to face trial for tax fraud. |
| 1:42.1 | Just hours earlier, a Spanish judge had cleared the extradition to go through. |
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