Another shower thought. Is John McAfee's prediction of $500,000 per Bitcoin late by 1 or 2 years? Do you believe it to still be laughable, simply because our pleb brains couldn't accept that it was not impossible?
I would not assign too much weight to the folks who are ridiculing John McAfee.
He definitely deserves to be ridiculed rather than worshiped, as some people do seem to worship him, or at least think that he can cause a pump - which is part of the reason that he is currently locked up for engaging in outrageous pumping
(and presumably dumping).
In regards to the $500k prediction by the end of 2020.. about a week after he made that overlyexuberant prediction, he upped it to $1million.
Many longer term HODLers likely did not really disagree with his prediction... instead it was seeming to be a bit too much, too fast.
With any prediction we have to look at both time and substantive amount... So, at the time when he made his prediction, during the late 2017 bullrun, such time and amount were seeming more reasonable - but then once we got the 85% correction and then a kind of dragging out of our regrouping period for 3 years, it appears that McAfee may have been a year too early in his prediction or even a cycle or two, too early in his prediction. He was not exactly being original in making such a prediction, only carrying out such prediction in his bombastic attention-whore seeking kind of way.