When Scottish writer Mark Eglinton interviewed him in a series of conversations in XNUMX and XNUMX, the cybersecurity vanguard turned cryptocurrency promoter was in hiding having escaped the US on a yacht then being subpoenaed by a huge jury in Tennessee. McAfee escaped to the Bahamas, then to Cuba and finally to the Dominican Republic, from where he was extradited to the United Kingdom, the country of his birth. After arriving in London, McAfee died. It was later discovered that he had been hiding out in what became known as The Bitcoin Hotel in the Barcelona area of Spain, the country where he was last detained as he attempted to catch a flight to Istanbul.