{"id":8843,"date":"2021-06-28T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/john-mcafees-hideout-was-a-secret-bitcoin-mining-farm\/"},"modified":"2021-06-28T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:54:09","slug":"john-mcafees-hideout-was-a-secret-bitcoin-mining-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/john-mcafees-hideout-was-a-secret-bitcoin-mining-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"John McAfee\u2019s Hideout Was a Secret Bitcoin Mining Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

John McAfee was reportedly hiding out in a Spanish \u201cghost hotel\u201d with a bitcoin mining farm in the basement prior to his arrest. Clues from images and messages the antivirus tycoon posted on social media point to a semi-abandoned hotel owned by a Russian.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Ghost Hotel\u2019 With Bitcoin Mining Farm<\/h2>\n

After John McAfee was reportedly found dead<\/a> in his prison cell in Spain, reports have emerged that the antivirus tycoon\u2019s hideout place was a secret bitcoin mining farm.<\/p>\n

The place was a semi-abandoned hotel in Cambrils called Daurada Park Hotel, El Pais publication reported Friday. Cambrils is a coastal town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.<\/p>\n

The hotel is dubbed \u201ca ghost hotel\u201d by the Spanish publication El Confidencial because reservations were pretty impossible to make as no one answered the phone even when the hotel was still operational. The publication tried to contact the hotel about the McAfee story back in 2018 but to no avail. There are few reviews of the hotel on Tripadvisor and none after 2017. Most reviewers found the hotel to be \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daurada Park Hotel was bought by an unidentified Russian businessman, the Diari de Tarragona previously reported. Authorities became suspicious of the hotel when a huge laser pointing at the sky was built on its roof. The Catalan police raided the premises in 2018 and found a bitcoin mining farm in the basement of the hotel that was operating 24-7. According to reports, the police lacked the authority to shut down the bitcoin mining operation at the time as cryptocurrency was an unregulated industry. The publication noted that it was unclear what happened to the mining farm. The hotel is now permanently closed.<\/p>\n

McAfee recently said that the Feds suspected that he had some hidden cryptocurrencies, which he denied<\/a>, adding that all of his assets had been seized by the Feds.<\/p>\n

Daurada Park Hotel when it was still in business.<\/p>\n

Tracing McAfee\u2019s Location to the Semi-Abandoned Hotel<\/h2>\n

McAfee never said he was at this hotel. However, a group of computer enthusiasts pieced together clues from images and comments he posted online using methodologies, such as open-source intelligence, Spanish publications conveyed.<\/p>\n

When the cybersecurity mogul said he was hiding out near Belarus, several clues placed him in Spain instead. Some of the images he posted on social media included his photos on beaches and balconies matching images on Google maps of the Daurada Park Hotel.<\/p>\n

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In March, during the coronavirus pandemic, McAfee shared photos of empty supermarkets where prices were in Catalan. He was also spotted earlier with a bottle of Catalan Sumarroca cava wine, Spanish Bezoya water bottles, and ATO cream which was also made there.<\/p>\n

McAfee eventually admitted that he had been in Catalonia when he \u201cvisited Spain for a few days.\u201d However, the group believed that this hotel was his long-term base. \u201cHe himself has said that he often came to Catalonia since 2018 or 2019 and it seems that he was based in this hotel,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

The antivirus tycoon was arrested on Oct. 3 last year at the El Prat airport in Barcelona as he was planning to fly to Turkey. The next day McAfee was admitted to Brians 2 prison in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires after appearing before Spain\u2019s high court. He was indicted<\/a> by the U.S. Department of Justice in March. After the 75-year-old was found hung in his prison cell, speculation <\/a>about him having a \u201cdead man\u2019s switch\u201d began to circulate.<\/p>\n

What do you think about John McAfee hiding out at a bitcoin mining farm? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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