The Passion of Bitcoin Jesus: How The Blockchain's Most Beloved Investor Became its Most Polarizing
"Any miners who've upgraded to Bitcoin Unlimited 1.0 should downgrade now! It just generated an invalid block." It’s afternoon in the ‘Miner in the World’ WeChat, one of the rare channels that bridges bitcoin's strained east-west communications divide. But the alarm isn’t being sounded by a miner. Rather, it’s from bitcoin developer Matt Corallo, and he’s up in arms about an issue many of his peers now believe could have accidentally split the $15bn economic network. Corallo quickly posts more links to explain the situation, which boils down to this: a bitcoin mining pool....
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In the ancient times of Passover, it is said that Jesus of Nazareth had disrupted the money changers’ business by driving them out of the holy temple. About two millennia later, Satoshi Nakamoto unleashed Bitcoin to the world when the creator mined the genesis block. The currency came at a time when corruption in the banking industry was becoming....
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....
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....
John Lennon once said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Bitcoin is bigger than them both. What feels better than watching Bitcoin (BTC) skyrocket on bullish mass-adoption news? For hodlers, there aren't too many events in life more satisfying than a trip to the moon — and now the rest of the world seems to be catching on.Bitcoin, it seems, is outstripping sex — at least when it comes to Reddit users — which may come as little surprise to those of us who spend time on the "front page of the internet."Source: Reddit.Reddit enjoys a massive audience of 440 million users and has been a....
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....