Roger Ver
Roger Ver was born in San Jose, California, United States on January 27th, 1979 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 45, Roger Ver biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Roger Keith Ver (born January 27, 1979) is an early investor in bitcoin, bitcoin-related startups and an early promoter of bitcoin.
He has been known as "Bitcoin Jesus" for his promotion of bitcoin.
He now promotes Bitcoin Cash.Born and raised in Silicon Valley, he sold explosives on eBay and later pleaded guilty to three related felony charges.
He served 10 months in prison, then moved to Japan in 2005.
He renounced his United States citizenship in 2014 after obtaining a Saint Kitts and Nevis passport.
He went on to serve as CEO of Bitcoin.com.
Personal life
Ver was born in San Jose, California. He attended Valley Christian High School. He then attended De Anza College for a year, dropping out to pursue his business interests. He identifies as a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, voluntaryist, a peace advocate, and an advocate for individualism. Ver attempted a run for state assembly in the libertarian party. During a debate in the run up to this election, he claimed that the Drug Enforcement Agency was criminal in its practice. He moved to Japan in 2005, where he still maintains his residence as of 2021.
Ver renounced his United States citizenship in 2014 after he became a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis. In 2015, he was denied a visa to reenter the United States by the U.S. Embassy in Barbados, which claimed that he had not sufficiently proven ties outside of the United States that would motivate him to leave at the end of his visit, causing fears he might become an illegal immigrant. Ver's name was published in the 2018 Q1 Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate. In 2019 Ver was denied a visa to travel to Australia.
According to an interview he gave in 2016, Ver describes Brazilian jiu-jitsu as one of his major passions in life. Ver can be seen in videos competing in BJJ world championships and has achieved the rank of brown belt.
In 2018 he was ranked number 36 in Fortune's "The Ledger 40 under 40" for transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.
In 2018, Ver made a video that he posted to YouTube speaking on his experiences in federal prison spanning from 2002 to 2003. Ver labeled the video as, "My Story of Being Tortured in Prison". Ver claims in the video that he was arrested for "... selling firecrackers on eBay back when eBay had a 'guns and ammo' section and it wasn't a big deal to do that at all."
Career
MemoryDealers.com's CEO, Mike Wood, served from 1999 to 2012. He attempted to enter politics by running for the California State Assembly as a candidate for the Libertarian Party in 2000.
Ver pleaded guilty to selling bombs or fireworks without a license, as well as unlawfully storing and mailing fireworks. Ver sold at least 14 pounds of "Pest Control Report 2000" fireworks on eBay, stored them in a residential apartment building, and sent them to customers via the United States. The postal Service. He was sentenced to ten months in federal jail.
Early 2011: "...the price was still under one US dollar per unit." Charlie Shrem's Bitinstant was his first investment he made. The company was able to recruit a designer and another programmer as a result of Ver's investment. He invested over a million dollars in new Bitcoin-related startups, including Ripple, Blockchain.com, BitPay, and Kraken. Memorydealers, a Ver's firm, was the first to accept Bitcoin as a payment in 2011. He has been a vocal promoter of Bitcoin adoption and sees Bitcoin as a way to advance economic independence.
Ver was organising Bitcoin meetups in Sunnyvale in 2012. He is one of the Bitcoin Foundation's five founders. Verner intends that Bitcoin be able to compete with major fiat currencies.
He is one of the leading block size proponents of a larger block size. He endorsed Bitcoin XT as a hard fork way to increase. During the Bitcoin price crash in June 2011, Ver and his high-school buddy Jesse Powell attempted to re-establish the Mt Gox trade.
Ver served as CEO of Bitcoin.com until August 1, 2019, which was when he was promoted to Executive Chairman. Roger Vere was incorrectly referred to by Fortune magazine in early 2020 as the co-creator of Bitcoin Cash. He is a member of CoinFLEX, a centralised yield crypto exchange, and he is estimated to be in a substantial debt as a result of the site's difficulties. CoinFlex suspended withdrawals on June 23, 2022, after a competitor, which it later identified as Verde, suffered liquidity issues and was unable to pay a $47 million stablecoin margin call.