Roger Ver on Blockchain's Past, Present and Future
Last week, I sat down with Roger Ver for an exclusive, hour-long interview where we discussed his company Blockchain, his team, and his vision for the bitcoin industry. We first connected after Ver came across a blog post of mine in which I dismissed Blockchain as "too understaffed and undercapitalized" to compete with the likes of Coinbase and Circle, long-term. The man, who many have started to refer to as "Bitcoin Jesus", emailed me with some objections and let me know that Blockchain had tripled the size of its team in just over a month while continuing to lead the industry in web....
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Blockchain.info is and has for a while been the Mecca of Bitcoin transactions. Making networking information and data easily viewable. Not only that, the service offers a wildly popular online wallet feature in use by tens of thousands. Such a well-oiled machine, it seems, and as such, I was interested in getting more information about the service. Blockchain.info investor Roger Ver took some time to answer a few of my questions. I am posting them here as I consider them to be share-worthy. Eric: Can you tell me a little about the inception of Blockchain.info? Roger: It was conceived,....
Roger Ver speaking at LeWeb 2013. Photo via LeWeb13. Roger Ver, also known as Bitcoin Jesus, is looking to buy MtGox bitcoins from people who believe the Bitcoin exchange may be insolvent. As reported yesterday, people are already selling their MtGox bitcoins at discounted rates on a new exchange that popped up overnight. Ver made a post on the bitcointalk forum where he stated his interesting in purchasing at least 100 bitcoins from other MtGox users. It's interesting to see this bid of confidence from Ver after so many people in the Bitcoin community have been bashing MtGox for the past....
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....
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....