By Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The early crypto investor, often called \u2018Bitcoin Jesus,\u2019 faces extradition to the U.S. after being charged with evading nearly $50 million in taxes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Officials with the United States Department of Justice announced charges against early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver, known by many as \u2018Bitcoin Jesus.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n In an April 30 notice, the Justice Department said<\/a> authorities in Spain had arrested Ver based on criminal charges in the United States, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The U.S. government alleged Ver defrauded the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) out of roughly $48 million<\/strong> with his failure to report capital gains on his sale of Bitcoin and other assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the indictment<\/a> filed on Feb. 15 but unsealed on April 29, Ver allegedly took control of roughly 70,000 BTC in June 2017 – before the now famous bull run – and sold many of them for $240 million. U.S. officials said they planned to extradite Ver from Spain to the United States to stand trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reactions to Ver\u2019s arrest on social media were mixed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n However, Bitcoiner Dan Held, the former growth lead at Kraken, claimed<\/a> Ver \u201cdeserves everything that he\u2019s about to get\u201d after he \u201cnearly destroyed Bitcoin.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRoger attacked my livelihood by trying to get me fired, called up others to hurt my relationships, and attacked my reputation,\u201d said Held on X.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe misaligned expectations around Bitcoin so much that it led to a civil war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n A cryptic message was Ver’s most-recent post on X<\/a>, reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/4AASXB5RDVARRH2FMY2CSVRL6Q.jpg?itok=UEG18lN-\")
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![<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nSource: Roger Ver<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nVer was also a proponent of Bitcoin Cash.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn 2022, he became embroiled in a scandal with crypto investment platform CoinFlex, which claimed he owed them $47 million in USD Coin.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHe had not commented on social media regarding the Justice Department charges at the time of publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\nVer has previously pleaded guilty and served time<\/a> for selling explosives on eBay.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Ver is famous for deceptively trying to replace Bitcoin with the Bitcoin Cash fork, and at the time I thought he was being used as he’s not that intelligent bearing out below. But in fairness, his serving prison time previously had to do with selling these pest control firecrackers for scaring away birds as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/9c411a75-2034-4194-a677-287ef511.jpg?itok=d0HmGj_v\"){kind=link}