Tech mogul John McAfee is famed for firing guns, guzzling drugs, fleeing a murder charge and trying to have sex with a whale.<\/p>\n
But could he soon go down in history as the man who finally exposed the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin?<\/p>\n
The wild man of the tech industry has threatened to unmask the cryptocurrencys shadowy creator, vowing to tell the world exactly who is behind Bitcoin unless they voluntarily out themselves.<\/p>\n
In a series of tweets, British-born renegade McAfee claimed one person who is currently living in the US wrote the white paper which set out the cryptocurrencys rules, but a team then built and developed it.<\/p>\n
McAfee said that everybody on this team was from India.<\/p>\n
The identity of Satoshi has remained a mystery for more than a decade. The person, or people, who use the pseudonym are thought to be sitting on a cryptocurrency stash worth billions of pounds.<\/p>\n
McAfee wrote: The Who is Satoshi? mystery must end!<\/p>\n
First: It is NOT the CIA nor any agency of any world government. It IS a collection of people, but the white paper was written by one man, who currently resides in the US.<\/p>\n
If he does not come forward these narrowings will continue.<\/p>\n
He added: I protected the identity of Satoshi. Its time, though, that this be put to bed. Imposters claim to be him, we are spending time and energy in search of him Its a waste. Every day I will narrow down the identity of Satoshi until he reveals himself, or I reveal him.<\/p>\n
For a sense of McAfees colourful life, you just have to look at his Twitter feed. Weve put a few of our favourites below, which shows the tech legend discussing an abortive attempt to have sex with a whale as well as his love of sex, guns, drink and drugs.<\/p>\n
McAfee was a programmer at Nasa in the late 1960s before launching his anti-virus company in the 1980s and going on to sell it for roughly $100million, reportedly spending his fortune on nine luxurious homes, multiple planes, vintage cars, expensive art and even a dinosaur skull.<\/p>\n
But in 2009 he allegedly lost money in the financial crisis before moving to Belize, where he lived surrounded by young women and protected by armed bodyguards.<\/p>\n
His home was raided in 2012 by the Belize Police Gang Suppression Unit because he was suspected of cooking meth, but no drugs were found and he was never charged.<\/p>\n
McAfee believes the raid was part of a conspiracy to destroy him because he refused to be extorted by the Belize government.<\/p>\n
He went on to become an international fugitive in 2012, fleeing from Belize police over the murder of his neighbour.<\/p>\n
Four years later he ran for President of the United States as a representative for the Libertarian party and achieved its best ever result.<\/p>\n
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