It's dissapointing how poorly Bitcoin choses its heroes sometimes with both Kim Dotcom and McAfee. Dotcom doesn't understand any of this - he bandwagons issues for his own benefit - did it with PirateBay, Snowden, Greenwald, etc. and steals most of what he posts online

It's all part of his campaign to portray himself as persecuted when he is nothing more than a common thief who has thrown everybody around him under a bus to save himself.

Bitcoiners need to realize that lionizing these people is a double edge sword - if you think you're not also associating bitcoin with everything negative these people ever do then you're wrong

You're not missing out on anything by ignoring these fools - they bait bitcoiners into covering them - but its not like they're saying anything insightful we'd be missing out on.