Roger Ver - Bitcoin Angel Investor

Roger Ver

Position: Bitcoin Angel Investor

Website: https://rogerver.com/

Twitter: @rogerkver

Roger Ver, sometimes known as Bitcoin Jesus or controversially Bitcoin Anti-Christ or Bitcoin Judas, is the owner of Bitcoin.com, and an investor in many of the world’s largest Bitcoin companies. He started investing in bitcoins in early 2011 and bought his first bitcoins at around $1.00.

Roger is an ex-convict. He was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for a felony involving selling explosives on Ebay, storing large quantities in a multi-family apartment building and shipping explosives through the US mail.

BCash

Roger owns and operates Bitcoin.com. He has mostly used this domain to promote BCash which was a result from a hard fork of the Bitcoin network in 1 August 2017.

There have been reports of people losing funds from using the BCash wallet Roger Ver distributes.

Bitcoin Foundation

Roger provided 10,000 bitcoins of funding for the Bitcoin Foundation. The initial board of directors included Gavin Andresen, Mark Karpeles, Charlie Shrem, John Matonis, Peter Vessenes.

Mark Karpeles

Mark Karpeles was CEO of MtGox when it failed resulting in the loss of about $500 million of client funds and is currently facing felony criminal fraud charges. Shortly before the failure Roger Ver investigated MtGox and found it worthy of his confidence.

Charlie Shrem

Charlie Shrem founded and ran BitInstant. In 2014 he pled guilty in federal court to criminal felony charges and served over a year in a federal penitentiary.

Peter Vessenes

Peter Vessenes was involved with MtGox through CoinLab to handle all US based customers.

Gavin Andresen

Gavin Andresen and John Matonis both supported Craig Wright’s claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto even though Wright was never able to provide any cryptographic proof.

Bitcoin.com

Ver owns the Bitcoin.com domain name. He originally rented the domain to Chinese Bitcoin exchange OKCoin. Ver retained control after an argument over payments and terms of the agreements.

Since then, Ver has updated the Bitcoin.com site to include information about BCAsh which is the result of a hard fork of the Bitcoin network on 1 Aug 2017.

MemoryDealers

Ver founded MemoryDealers in 1999. The company sells computer hardware, memory, and routers for low prices.

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Investments

In his LinkedIn profile, Ver claims to be the first person in the world to have invested in a Bitcoin startup.

A list of investments:

company ShapeShift: $1.6 million - First

8-Sep-2015 | Exchange

Description: Trade any leading blockchain asset for any other. Protection by design. No account needed.

Investors: Digital Currency Group, Roger Ver, Bruce Fenton, Michael Terpin, Trevor Koverko

Headquartered: Zug

Country: Switzerland

company ShapeShift: $0.53 million - Seed

10-Mar-2015 | Exchange

Description: Trade any leading blockchain asset for any other. Protection by Design. No Account Needed.

Investors: Barry Silbert and Roger Ver

Headquartered: Zug

Country: Switzerland

company Purse.io: $0.3 million - Seed

27-Nov-2014 | Financial Services

Investors: Roger Ver, Bobby Lee, Terrence Yang, FundersClub, StrongVC

Headquartered: San Francisco

Country: United States

company Coinapult: $0.78 million - Seed

30-Sep-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, Roger Ver, FirstMark Capital, Erik Voorhees, Ira Miller

Headquartered: Panama City

Country: Panama

company Hive: $0.19 million - Seed

26-Mar-2014 | Wallet

Investors: Roger Ver, Seedcoin

Headquartered: Hong Kong

Country: China

company Safello: $0.6 million - Seed

17-Feb-2014 | Exchange

Investors: Roger Ver, Nicolas Cary, Eric Voorhees, Individual Investors

Headquartered: Stockholm

Country: Sweden

BitPay: $0.51 million - Seed

7-Jan-2013 | Payment Processor

Investors: Shakil Khan, Barry Silbert, Roger Ver, Ashton Kutcher, Matt Mullenweg, Ben Davenport, Trace Mayer, Jimmy Furland

Headquartered: Atlanta

Country: United States

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