Want Anti-Virus magnate John MacAfee to be President? If so, you can support his campaign with Bitcoin

True to his cause as one of the world’s most famous computer programmers, John MacAfee, founder of Anti-virus software company MacAfee Inc, has embraced Bitcoin as a method of allowing supporters of his presidential campaign to pledge their financial donations via the digital currency. In accordance with the rules set out by the Federal Elections […]

True to his cause as one of the world’s most famous computer programmers, John MacAfee, founder of Anti-virus software company MacAfee Inc, has embraced Bitcoin as a method of allowing supporters of his presidential campaign to pledge their financial donations via the digital currency.

In accordance with the rules set out by the Federal Elections Committee last year, John MacAfee’s supporters can pledge donations in Bitcoin to a maximum value of $2,700, and must provide certain details including the donor’s address, name and name of employer.

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John MacAfee, who is now seventy years old, shared a link to a BitPay donation page on October 1, which his 29,000 Twitter followers are able to view, the payment method being an alternative to the standard means of supporting his campaign, which is via PayPal using fiat currency.

MacAfee Inc became a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel in February 2011, and now operates under the name of Intel Security which is a division of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC).

Mr. MacAfee’s campaign website is as different from the norm as his affinity with Bitcoin.

“I live in a country that has passed so many laws, that, at an average reading speed, would take me 600 years to read, reading 24 hours a day,” Mr McAfee told the BBC.

“I am protected by a government that invades my privacy so that it can assure me that I am not the enemy it is protecting me from.”

“I live in a country that is governed by people largely illiterate in cybersecurity – as proven by the multiple government computer hacks.”

“Yet cyber-warfare is now the means of war. My government is dysfunctional. For the 300 million other Americans – you are in the same boat with me.”

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