John McAfee died yesterday. He was 75. However it happened, it happened. And with it,

something larger passed too. And sure, there are still some gonzow people. But overall,

with every week that passes, the industry becomes a little less gonzow and a little more

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What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, June 24th.

Hunter S. Thompson wrote,

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Yesterday, John McAfee died in his Spanish prison cell,

waiting to be extradited back to the U.S. to face trial for tax fraud.

Just hours earlier, a Spanish judge had cleared the

extradition to go through. The internet is, shall we say, not buying it. McCaffee was one of the

wildest characters in crypto. I mean, he would have been one of the wildest characters in any

industry. It's just that crypto came to suit his particular brand of crazy. He was at turns

reviled, lionized, a bad joke, a deadly serious

warning, a clown, a prophet, a caricature, a soothsayer, a shit-coiner, and a true believer.

Whatever he was, he was unignorable. He was an icon, an icon of an era of crypto that is

quickly passing by. History is a messy affair. Historians like to

use emblematic events to mark passages from one phase to the next, even if the reality is by no

means that clearly organized. Hunter S. Thompson had something to say about this, too. He wrote,

History is hard to know because of all the hired bullshit. But even without being sure of history,

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