Bitcoin is bounced back $5,000 on some news or rumors or whatever.

Microstrategy now owns over 100,000 Bitcoins, and Chris John Carlo, former chairman of the CFTC,

says the US risks becoming backwater without essential digital currency.

One Ethereum options trader lost $3 million in a trade gone bad, and that's just a few of

many stories we'll be covering today. In a special Crypto Spotlight segment,

we feature the free ton project. You'll discover the good that has come from the SEC's shutdown

of the telegram ton, ICO. But first, we wish to note that we do today's show with heavy hearts.

News broke on Wednesday that software pioneer and friend of this show, John McAfee,

has died at the age of 75. Today's moment of silence in the upcoming gap is dedicated to

Johnny, with nothing but love and sympathy for his wife, Janice. This is our bad news episode

number 526 of the Bad Crypto Podcast.

And welcome to the Bad Crypto Podcast. The show for the crypto curious and crypto serious,

and we do indeed have heavy hearts today to learn that. John McAfee allegedly has committed

suicide in a prison in Barcelona. Yeah, very sad times. We've interviewed John four times on

episode 100, 200, 300, and then almost episode 400, because he was about to head out somewhere,

and we wanted to make sure that we could get him back on the show. Great guy had a lot of great

interviews with him. And I think we're going to do an episode remembering John McAfee with some of

the highlights of those episodes, right, Joel? Yes, we are going to be doing a special tribute show.

We've got a few bad aciders that are going back and listening to the four episodes we did,

pulling out some really interesting stuff. I know you found some interesting tweets, and we're going

to talk about that in a special episode that will be coming out soon. But the main news,

according to this article on coin telegraph, Spanish International News Agency, EFE,

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