Roger Ver, 'Bitcoin Jesus', Makes Largest Ever Bitcoin Donation of $1 Million
Globetrotting bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver just made the largest ever charitable bitcoin donation - a million dollars - after 'losing' a bet he made with the world about its rise. The CEO of MemoryDealers and angel investor actually made an initial bet of $10,000 (the value of 1,000 BTC at the time) but recent events have pushed the dollar value into seven figures, setting the record. "A little over two years ago I made a bet for $10,000 that bitcoin would outperform gold, silver, the US stock market and the US dollar by more than one hundred times over the next two years," he posted in....
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Known to many as "Bitcoin Jesus," Bitcoin super-investor and activist Roger Ver has run into major problems recently. Ver famously renounced his United States citizenship in 2014 and was denied a traveling visa this week by U. S. consulate officials. This being his latest attempt to visit Miami to attend an upcoming Bitcoin conference. Roger Ver has taken to social networking site Twitter to vent his frustrations at these new traveling restrictions. Ever since the Christmas holiday, Ver has been turned down three different times in the span of eight days. Roger Ver @rogerkver@tom_sharkey....
Bitcoin angel investor and Blockchain business developer Roger Ver has worked tirelessly for a few years to promote Bitcoin in the mainstream press, and a few narratives about him seem to have stuck. He began accepting Bitcoin very early on at his site, MemoryDealers.com, already a successful business. He made a fortune in early Bitcoin investments. His Bitcoin giveaways, including a 1,000 BTC donation to the Foundation for Economic Education, earned him the nickname “Bitcoin Jesus.” We had a chance to speak with Ver this week, and we took the opportunity to dig a little deeper to get his....
We promised the coming of Bitcoin Jesus, and his time has come. Here is Roger Ver answering the questions put forward by you, our readers and community members at the Inside Bitcoins conference in Hong Kong! We had a huge number of entries and so tried to allow Roger to speak about as wide a variety of topics as possible - we hope you enjoy hearing what he has to say. Don't forget to give us your feedback and let us know who else you would like to ask some Bitcoin questions, and as always, be sure to keep following CT!
Bitcoin investor and evangelist Roger Ver -- "Bitcoin Jesus," some call him -- used bitcoins to buy his plane ticket from Tokyo, where he lives, to San Jose for Bitcoin 2013. He asked the parking lot attendant at the San Jose Convention Center if he could pay for his parking with bitcoins too (no dice). In fact, Ver pays for as much as he possibly can with the currency. He's invested more than a million dollars in it and holds his savings in it. And if all that is not enough, the man listens to the sounds of bitcoin transactions as background music as he goes about his day. Ver can truly....
Oh, ye of "too much faith!" Those who follow the "Bitcoin Jesus," as he's come to be called will not be able to witness their leader rise to the top on U. S. soil. As it so happens, bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver is being denied entry into the United States to speak at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami after renouncing his U. S. citizenship. Ver earned citizenship with the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis last year and primarily splits his time between that country and Japan. The U. S. embassy in Barbados stated to Ver the following reason for the rejection: "One....