John McAfee tributes, El Salvador’s bold plans, altcoin fears: Hodler’s Diges...

John McAfee tributes, El Salvador’s bold plans, altcoin fears: Hodler’s Diges...

Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week Remembering John McAfee: Computer programmer and crypto evangelist dead at 75John McAfee was found dead in his Spanish prison cell hours after the countrys courts ruled that he could be extradited to the U.S. to face tax evasion charges. He was 75.He was best known for creating one of the worlds best-known....


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The death of computer security pioneer and international fugitive John McAfee been met with an outpouring of emotions on Crypto Twitter. The reported suicide of notorious tax fugitive, Bitcoin proponent, and antivirus software pioneer, John McAfee, has prompted an outpouring of tributes and conspiracy theories today.After years of evading U.S. taxes and authorities, a Spanish court had ordered McAfee’s extradition just hours before he was found dead, with the 75-year-old expected to face a life sentence in the United States should he have been extradited.Former National Security Agency....

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