Roger Ver Denied US Entry to Attend Bitcoin Conference
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....
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Bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver has been effectively locked out of his native USA after this week being denied a non-immigrant visa for the third time. Ver, who publicly gave up his US citizenship in 2014, was planning to speak at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami from 16-18th January. He tweeted the following message to his 18,800 followers: While forcing me to pay taxes @USEmbassyBbdos tyrants won't allow me to attend #CES2015, #TNABC or anything in the US pic.twitter.com/8dl6qpPjUM. - Roger Ver (@rogerkver) January 6, 2015. Ver told CoinDesk that despite rejecting his....
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....
In the run up to his appearance at the Virtual Crypto Summit, CoinTelegraph spoke to Roger Ver who said 2015 will be the year Bitcoin integrates with the traditional finance system, the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF probably won’t be the first and more. Speaking to CoinTelegraph ahead of his headlining lecture slot at the 2015 International Virtual Crypto Summit, on the theme of 'Bitcoin freeing the world', angel investor Roger Ver suggests he will be addressing the ways in which digital currencies may be able to negate national boundaries, making these territorial divisions less and less....
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!
The startups panel at the North American Bitcoin Conference via coinchomp.com. Hundreds of Bitcoiners have gathered at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami this morning, and the two-day extravaganza has plenty of new Bitcoin evangelists and entrepreneurs in attendance. The event kicked off at 8:30am with Ken Metral, the CEO of Coingig, and the last speaker of the day will be Roger Ver, also known as Bitcoin Jesus. There will be many other speakers and panels giving their opinions on different aspects of the Bitcoin space over the next two days, and the whole world will likely get....