{"id":27482,"date":"2020-08-20T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27482"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:04:10","slug":"john-mcafee-exits-ghost-the-private-cryptocurrency-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/john-mcafee-exits-ghost-the-private-cryptocurrency-project\/","title":{"rendered":"John McAfee exits Ghost, the private cryptocurrency project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur John McAfee announced that he is leaving the Ghost project. He cited the current management&#8217;s inability to lead it to success.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am abandoning the the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24Ghost&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$Ghost<\/a> project. Management is incapable of making a success of the project. It will, without a doubt fail. lI tried to explain the fundamental principles of management, but they fell on deaf ears. My apologies to those that I led astray\u00bb Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1296172479308869635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I am leaving the $Ghost project. The management is not capable of leading it to success. There is no doubt that it will fail. I tried to explain to them the fundamental principles of management, but I was not heard. I apologise to those I led astray,&#8221; \u2014 McAfee wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The privacy-focused Ghost coin, announced by the creator of the McAfee antivirus, was unveiled in April this year.<\/p>\n<p>Later, PIVX developers said that McAfee copied 20 of 26 pages of their white paper. McAfee did not deny this, but threatened a lawsuit against PIVX, as the project has open source code.<\/p>\n<p>In June, McAfee announced the launch of the decentralized exchange GHOST. It was planned that the Ghost blockchain would later be integrated with the Telegram messenger into an app called TeleGHOST.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur John McAfee announced that he is leaving the Ghost project. He cited the current management&#8217;s inability to lead it to success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1892,944],"class_list":["post-27482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ghost","tag-john-mcafee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"58","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27484,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions\/27484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}