Roger Ver arrested for tax fraud while promoting Bitcoin book
Less than four weeks ago, Roger Ver published his version of Bitcoin’s 2015-2017 blocksize wars. In Ver’s first full-length book, Hijacking Bitcoin, he attempted to question the Blockstream-led narrative of the user-activated soft fork that ostensibly saved Bitcoin from the miner-activated soft fork proposal of big blockers like Ver, Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn, Calvin Ayre, Jihan Wu, and Craig Wright. A few days later, authorities arrested Ver in Spain for unrelated tax fraud . The unfortunate sequence of events continues something of a trend in Ver’s life. His idealism has frequently led to encounters with law enforcement. In 2002, for example, he spent 10 months in prison for selling prohibited items (mainly firecrackers) via eBay. Another detention center stay for Roger Ver According to a newly unsealed indictment this month, Ver allegedly defrauded the US out of more than $48 million . According to the IRS, “he concealed and provided false information to his various advisors...