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Oh good, Roger Ver is involved as an investor. Steer clear, fellas. Steer clear.

• duskwuff 11y ago
  Mind explaining who this is, and why this is an issue? (I genuinely have no idea, and I figure you can probably explain better than a Google search could.)
  • kchoudhu 11y ago
    His wikipedia page is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ver * He sold explosives on ebay back in the day, and went to prison for it. * He renounced his US citizenship to avoid paying taxes... * ...but was for some reason VERY annoyed when the US government wouldn't let him back in. * Of course he funded Ross Ulbricht's defense in the Silkroad trial. Mostly though, he is the subject of waaaay too many posts on /r/buttcoin. Who you take money from shows what kind of organization you want to build. ZCash is currently failing this test for me.
  • ufo 11y ago
    His mtgox video is emblematic[1]. Mtgox was at the time the largest bitcoin exchange in the world but it was insolvent due to stealing/misplacing customer funds. Roger made a video saying everything was fine and then mtgox went under a couple of months later. He then tried to spin that he was just talking about "liquidity" and not "solvency" but thats a really shitty excuse. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1YsMlrfF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP1YsMlrfF0.