Roger Ver
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Roger Ver (born 1979, San Jose, California) is an entrepreneur and early Bitcoin investor nicknamed 'Bitcoin Jesus' for his prominent role evangelizing cryptocurrency beginning in 2011. He later became CEO and Executive Chairman of Bitcoin.com and a principal promoter of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) following the 2017 hard fork. In April 2024 he was arrested in Spain on a U.S. Department of Justice indictment charging mail fraud, tax evasion, and filing false tax returns related to approximately $48 million in allegedly concealed capital gains; in October 2025 he resolved the charges without prison time by entering a deferred prosecution agreement and paying $49.9 million.
Connected Entities
4 entities · 60 linked investigations- Roger Ver→mentioned with→Bitcoin(70%)
- Roger Ver→mentioned with→Kraken(65%)
- Bitcoin Cash→mentioned with→Roger Ver(80%)
- Roger Ver→mentioned with→Bitcoin Cash(80%)
- Kraken→mentioned with→Bitcoin(70%)
- Bitcoin Cash→mentioned with→Bitcoin(70%)
Connected Through
4 shared actors · 536 investigationsDistinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.
- ♦Bitcointoken
- □Krakenorganization
- ♦Bitcoin Cashtoken
- □Roger Verorganization
Timeline(13 events)
1998
Ver founds MemoryDealers in Santa Clara, selling computer hardware to Silicon Valley companies
BitcoinWiki2 May 2002
Ver pleads guilty to selling explosives (Pest Control Report 2000) on eBay without a license; sentenced to 10 months federal prison
DOJ Press Release2011
Ver begins investing in Bitcoin at approximately $1 per coin; invests over $1 million in startups including BitInstant, Blockchain.com, BitPay, Ripple, and Kraken
WikipediaJune 2011
MemoryDealers becomes one of the first established businesses worldwide to accept Bitcoin as payment
BitcoinWikiFebruary 2014
Ver renounces U.S. citizenship and obtains citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis; prosecutors later allege he held at least 130,664 BTC and failed to pay the required exit tax
DOJ USAO-CDCA IndictmentAugust 2017
Bitcoin Cash hard fork occurs at block 478,559; Ver becomes one of its most prominent public advocates
Bitcoin Cash - WikipediaNovember 2017
Ver allegedly sells tens of thousands of bitcoins for approximately $240 million without reporting capital gains to the IRS
CNBC: DOJ charges 'Bitcoin Jesus'28 June 2022
CoinFLEX CEO publicly names Ver as the counterparty allegedly defaulting on $47 million USDC margin obligation; Ver denies the claim and files a counter-arbitration
CNBC: CoinFlex claims Roger Ver behind $47M debt30 April 2024
Ver arrested in Spain; DOJ unseals indictment from Central District of California charging him with mail fraud, tax evasion, and filing false tax returns — eight counts total
Axios: Roger Ver arrested for tax evasionDecember 2024
Ver's attorneys file motion to dismiss indictment, arguing the exit tax is constitutionally invalid
IFC ReviewMay 2025
Ver files complaint with the European Court of Human Rights alleging Spain's extradition approval violates his fundamental legal rights
The Block: Roger Ver sues Spain to block US extradition14 October 2025
DOJ announces Ver has entered a deferred prosecution agreement; Ver admits to misconduct and pays $49.9 million; indictment dismissed without prejudice
DOJ OPA: Roger Ver Admits to MisconductDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 10 of 13 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/1/2026, 5:49:06 PM
last updated: 6/1/2026, 5:49:06 PM
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