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All product details reflect the price and availability at the time of publication. If you buy something we link to on our site, Refinery29 may earn commission.Cocoon By SealyBest Deals On: MattressesSale: Save 35% + free pillows and sheets on the Chill MattressDates: Now - 3/8Everyone is literally sleeping on Cocoon by Sealy mattresses — in a good way. Right now, the bestselling and top-rate Chill Mattress is up 35% off and is packaged with bedding to boot. Cool sleepers say: “I was unsure how to go about choosing a mattress online and I read so many different blogs and reviews and landed on this one because of the chill feature and many good reviews. I live in Hawaii so I wanted something that was medium soft that wouldn't be too hot — Cocoon delivered this spot on. I love how soft it is without making you sink too much and feel like your suffocating. I have a bad hip so it is always challenging to find a mattress that doesn’t make me hurt after sleeping on my side. This mattress supports me with comfort and I can honestly say after 60-ish days I have never woken up with a sore hip, neck, or back! I love this mattress!”Shop Cocoon by SealyCocoon Chill Mattress, $, available at SealyDysonBest Deals On: VacuumsSale: Save $100 on select Dyson vacuum technologyDates: Now - 3/20For a limited time, the latest Dyson technology is $100 off and packaged with tools worth up to $75. Dyson products receive rave reviews for a reason: this state-of-the-art machinery sweeps up crumbs at 125,000 rpm and leaves homes free of fine dust. According to customers, it’s truly a worthwhile investment. Shop DysonDyson V11 Outsize cordless vacuum, $, available at DysonWayfairBest Deals On: Office FurnitureSale: Office furniture up to 50% offDates: Now - 3/7For the next two days, we can score, desks, task chairs, standing desk converters, and more home office essentials for up to 50% off at Wayfair’s Office Closeout Sale. If you’re looking for something comfy yet chic for your back, check out the top-rated Foundstone swivel chair. Reviewers say:“Love this chair! It’s really easy to put together and it’s so comfortable! I was worried about buying the white because we wear jeans often and you just never know, but so far so good!”Shop WayfairFoundstone Katrina Task Chair, $, available at WayfairJoss & MainBest Deals On: Living Room FurnitureSale: Steep discounts on select living room furnitureDates: Now - Limited timeHome decor is one of the biggest highlights of Joss & Main, but today we’ve got our eyes on comfy discount couches, coffee tables, and more furniture finds. If you’re looking to snazz up your space, take a cruise through this clearance section — Joss & Main never fails to make cheap look chic. 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  • Eccentric Antivirus Mogul John McAfee Accused of Making Millions in Illegal Crypto Schemes

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At the time, prosecutors in Tennessee claimed he earned millions from promoting cryptocurrencies and even selling his life story for a documentary.Steven Seagal, a Missing Private Eye, and an Alleged Crypto FraudThe new indictment states McAfee, Watson and other members of McAfee’s “so-called cryptocurrency team” engaged in “scalping,” or a “pump and dump” scheme with the help of McAfee’s Twitter handle @officialmcafee. They face charges including: commodities and securities fraud conspiracy; wire fraud conspiracy; wire fraud; and securities and touting fraud conspiracy.According to the feds, McAfee and his team purchased scores of publicly traded altcoins—an alternative to bitcoin—for low market prices, then published false and misleading tweets via McAfee’s Twitter to “artificially inflate” their market price. McAfee and his supposed accomplices then sold their investments collectively for more than $2 million. The fraudsters allegedly scalped at least 12 publicly traded altcoins, which qualify under federal law as commodities or securities.While McAfee and Watson gained “illicit profits,” the indictment adds, the long-term value of the altcoins purchased by investors plummeted “as of a year after the promotional tweets.” Prosecutors say McAfee falsely promised he’d disclose whether he had a big stake in altcoin in his tweets and public statements during the scheme.In a second scheme, McAfee allegedly championed “initial coin offerings,” without disclosing that the startups behind the fundraising drives were paying McAfee and his team for the promotional tweets with a big chunk of the proceeds raised from investors.The bizarro globe-trotting computer programmer—once suspected in the murder of his neighbor in Belize, but never charged—began ramping up his Twitter profile in the years before the two schemes. Many of McAfee’s 784,000 followers were cryptocurrency investors, the indictment claims.In his Twitter bio, McAfee described himself thus: “Iconoclast. Lover of women, adventure and mystery. Founder of McAfee Anti-virus.” His location is pegged as: “Wherever I am.”Possibilities are endless when Free Health Care is a reality. Docademic ICO ends on Sunday, not without monumental success! One of the best ICOs I've seen. Deals in the US, China and Latin America. I hope everyone seriously looked at this ICO. https://t.co/83Rcwudmkx— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) April 14, 2018 While the indictment doesn’t identify the altcoin offerings, McAfee tweeted about multiple ICOs for emerging startups, including a healthcare platform called Docademic and the UK-based women-only cab, Pink Taxi. “Possibilities are endless when Free Health Care is a reality. Docademic ICO ends on Sunday, not without monumental success! One of the best ICOs I've seen,” he tweeted in April 2018.“For the women in crypto: The pinktaxi.io ICO is the first safety coin that helps protect women in male dominated societies. One if [sic] the most promising ICOs since Docademic or Bezop,” McAfee posted in June 2018. The tweet included a video of himself and a woman claiming to be a Pink Taxi investor.For the women in crypto:The https://t.co/nOyoFGVpOc ICO is the first safety coin that helps protect women in male dominated societies. One if the most promising ICOs since Docademic or Bezop. pic.twitter.com/w2qAKuKmEx— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 1, 2018 The indictment also names an alleged co-conspirator only revealed as “McAfee Team Member-1,” whom McAfee allegedly directed to buy large quantities of a specific altcoin which he would then endorse on Twitter and sell to reap a profit.Several investors who took the bait lived in the Southern District of New York, where Team Member-1 tried opening an account with a digital asset exchange so McAfee could liquidate his proceeds of the alleged crypto conspiracy.But in January 2018, the cryptocurrency exchange declined Team Member-1’s application, prompting the man to fire off an email identifying himself as an “employee of John McAfee” and threatening to sue over the rejection.Prosecutors say McAfee, Watson and their helpers also orchestrated a second scheme, using McAfee’s Twitter to promote “initial coin offerings,” or a fundraising method startups use that’s similar to an initial public offering—except investors receive new digital “tokens,” often in exchange for established cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.McAfee’s team should have known federal securities laws required them to disclose any compensation from ICO issuers, the indictment says. Indeed, in November 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission specifically warned: “Any celebrity or other individual who promotes a virtual token or coin that is a security must disclose the nature, scope, and amount of compensation received in exchange for the promotion.”The alleged scammers collected more than $11 million in undisclosed compensation, which they made sure to hide from investors.McAfee lived in Lexington, Tennessee, during the alleged scalping and ICO schemes, which occurred from December 2017 to October 2018.For the thousands of you who whine every time I bring a coin or an ICO to your attention: pic.twitter.com/fBtJzNishe— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) February 4, 2018 Watson began working as a private security guard for McAfee in November 2017 and moved into the tech pioneer’s Tennessee home. McAfee would soon promote Watson from guard to “executive advisor” and later to CEO of the McAfee team before he left in October 2018, according to the indictment.In January 2018, McAfee opened an account using his own name at a cryptocurrency exchange in California with assistance from Watson and Watson’s then-wife.McAfee and Watson, according to court papers, had Watson’s former spouse use McAfee’s California exchange account to liquidate proceeds of the ICO touting scheme into millions of dollars of U.S. currency, before wiring more than a million dollars through a New York financial institution and routing it to a bank account registered to McAfee in Tennessee.The feds say in April 2018, McAfee and Watson directed the wife to submit an application online to open an account at a New York exchange so the men could liquidate their ill-gotten cryptocurrency.Beginning tomorrow, I will each day talk about a unique altcoin. Most of the 2,000 coins are trash or scams. I've read every white paper. The few I'm connected to I will tell you. The rest I have no position in. These coins will change the world. You can support that change— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) December 20, 2017 If convicted on all counts, McAfee and Watson face 60 years behind bars.“As alleged, McAfee and Watson exploited a widely used social media platform and enthusiasm among investors in the emerging cryptocurrency market to make millions through lies and deception,” said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss in a statement. “The defendants allegedly used McAfee’s Twitter account to publish messages to hundreds of thousands of his Twitter followers touting various cryptocurrencies through false and misleading statements to conceal their true, self-interested motives.”“Investors should be wary of social media endorsements of investment opportunities,” Strauss concluded.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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