/unjerk Who is roger ver?

rydan · 5時間前

I'm not sure how but he managed to become one of the richest bitcoiners. He is from the early days and is a rabid supporter obviously. He also commits felonies with reckless abandon, gave up his citizenship to avoid taxes, and paid his taxes anyway to enter the country. He wasn't permitted to enter. He has also tried to scam people with bitcoin passports and assured people Mt. Gox was fine months before it collapsed.

xyzzy24 · 2時間前

Roger Ver spent 10 months in a federal prision for selling unlicensed fireworks on eBay. He claims that he was arrested for his libertarian views, but the fact is he stored the explosives in his condo without telling his neighbours, and shipped them by mail in unmarked packages. The judge of this case also makes a passing mention to pipe bombs, but there are no details about this. He also ran for the california senate for the libertarian party. He was not elected.

He founded and is still owner of memorydealers.com, a second hand computer part resseller. I suppose that's how he got rich. He later became bitcoin "rich" by investing early. He bacame a "bitcoin jesus" by investing in early bitcoin business like blockchain.info, bitpay and ripple.

After leaving prision, he left the US and went to tokyo. He's lived in japan ever since. He renounced his US citzenship and bought a St. Kitts and Nevis citzenship, through their “Citizenship-by-investment” program. He later tried to sell St. Kitts and Nevis passports for bitcoin, but this idea was quickly squashed by the St. Kitts government.

He also tried to return to the US to attend a bitcoin conference, but was denied entry because he is an ex-convict who renounced his citzenship to avoid paying taxes, and have no permanent residence in the country who issued his passport (he is a St. Kitts and Nevis citizen, but still lives in tokyo).

He still attended the converence by telepresence, using a device which is basically a iPad attached to a segway. This incarnation of him was dubbed "Ver-on-a-stick", and it looks as stupid as it sounds.

Finally, as others already mentioned, he vouched for the solvency of MtGox shortly before the collapse in that famous video.

I'm sure there are more minor laffs that I'm forgetting, but this is the basic biography of roger ver, AKA "bitcoin jesus".

federal_reserve_cock · 4時間前

In addition to what was already said, look at his Twitter for more gold.

donald-rump · 2時間前

Well, you've heard of regular Jesus, right? He's been summarized as follows:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Bitcoin Jesus is like regular Jesus, except instead of being a human incarnation of limitless divine love and forgiveness sent to redeem the world, he's the human incarnation of nearly sociopathic greed, a Dunning Kruger effect approach to law and economics, and abjectly misguided euphoria, sent to the world to induce neckbeards into petty crime and demeaning panhandling for his own profit.

He's like Jesus, but with Bitcoin!

AussieCryptoCurrency · 29分前

He's a pretty shrewd businessman FWIW. He seems like someone is get along with and respect until he pisses and moans about the Govt conspiracy which imprisoned him for shipping illegal explosives in unmarked packages. That's the rub: he's so angry the gubmint is stopping the freedom to sell illegal explosives that he doesn't consider the freedom of being a pilot without dying due to one if his products exploding.

I've asked the question - do you feel empathy for the pilots? - and he won't answer it.

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