by Hodler Ash 
H Roger Ver – CEO Of Bitcoin.com
Are you familiar with cryptocurrency ? Are you interested in bitcoin ? Then I am sure that you have heard about H Roger Ver. If not then the crypto world is not a place for you. How can you invest in bitcoin without knowing the Jesus of bitcoin ?
H Roger Ver is an early promoter of bitcoin, one of the early successful investor in bitcoin and bitcoin-related startups. He was one of the few who found the future in bitcoin Investments and promote it greatly. Because of his prominent support of bitcoin adoption, he came to know as the Bitcoin Jesus. Later he lost his confidence in Bitcoin and today he is an exponent of Bitcoin Cash.
The life story of H Roger Ver is very interesting and motivating. A young man born and raised in Silicon Valley. Who sold explosives in eBay. Later arrested and pleaded guilty to three related felony charges. Spend 10 months in prison.Forced to move to Japan in 2005. Who only able to renounced his United States citizenship in 2014 after obtaining a Saint Kitts and Nevis passport. But the most inspiring part in his life is that he himself undergoes changes and now serves as the CEO of one of the most popular sites in cryptocurrency ” Bitcoin.com “.
Personal life of H Roger Ver
H Roger Ver was born on January 27, 1979, in San Jose, California. He spent a lot of his early years in Silicon Valley with his highly religious Christian family. At a very young age, he shows interest in business and while he was in Junior High School, H Roger Ver was already running a successful business of selling candy bars, and he makes up to $50 per week. When he reaches High School, he became even more successful and able to buy a white Ford Mustang. But this results in conflict with his family. His deeply religious parents did not approve of the purchase and his father attempted to sell the car by placing an advertisement in a local Newspaper. Roger responded by calling the police who threatened to arrest him if he didn’t withdraw the ad. This dispute led to Roger moving out of the family house He then attended a community college in Cupertino, California called De Anza College for a year before dropping out. After dropping out of college, Roger elected to pursue a number of small business interests.
MEMORY DEALERS
H Roger Ver started Memory Dealers in 1999 as a wholesale enterprise for computer spare parts. The company’s website service MemoryDealers.com offered a vast catalog of custom transceivers and memory hardware. The company designed as well as produced modules for Cisco, laptops, and Juniper.
By the time he was 25 in 2004, he was already a millionaire as the Memory Dealers client base had increased tremendously. Roger served as CEO of the company from 1999 to the year 2012.
POLITICAL CAREER
H Roger Ver identifies as a libertarian, peace advocate, an anarcho-capitalist, and an advocate for individualism and voluntaryism. In the year 2000, he became a Libertarian candidate for the California State Assembly. Roger based his campaign on issues like taxation, the war on drugs and the operations of the ATF. During a debate held at the San Jose State University, he argued strongly against taxes calling them illegal as well as declaring the war on drugs as immoral and finally described the ATF as being criminals.
IMPRISONMENT
In 2002, Roger pleaded guilty to the charge of dealing in explosives without a license. Roger had been arrested due to the fact that his company had been selling an item called the “Pest Control Report 2000” which was essentially a firecracker that was popular among farmers for scaring away birds. Roger alleged that he was the only one prosecuted while the manufacturer and other sellers were merely told to stop. He was given a sentence of 10 months of imprisonment in Federal prison. While in prison, Roger taught himself Japanese.
Roger claimed that he was being unfairly prosecuted on account of some of his campaign rhetoric directed against the ATF. He alleged that he was forced to enter a plea bargain or risk being sent to prison for up to 8 years. Roger served 10 months at the Lompoc Federal Penitentiary after which he was put on probation for 3 years. On the last day of his probation, Roger moved to Japan.
CHANGE OF CITIZENSHIP AND EMIGRATION TO JAPAN
He moved to Japan in 2005 after serving a 10-months in prison He renounced his United States citizenship in 2014 after he became a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis In 2015.
BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY CAREER
In 2011 H Roger Ver made his first Bitcoin investment. He invested about $25,000 in Charlie Shrem’s Bitinstant. Back then the price of Bitcoin was $2 and his investment helped Charlie Shrem expand operations of Bitinstant. By the summer of that same year, the price of Bitcoin has increased to about $30 making Roger a Bitcoin millionaire.
INVESTMENT IN BLOCKCHAIN START-UPS
Roger invested upwards of a million dollars into a number of Blockchain-based start-ups as he became more involved in the cryptocurrency market. He invested in ventures like Ripple, Kraken, Bitpay, and Blockchain.info. His website MemoryDealers.com is one of the first to enable Bitcoin payments. He also created an online store that allowed Bitcoin to be used as payment for the items listed in the store. The store was called bitcoinstore.com. Roger continues to emphasize the use of Bitcoin, regularly using it to pay for hotel bills and plane tickets.
BITCOIN.COM
H Roger Ver bought the domain name Bitcoin.com from Blockchain.info in April of 2014. The domain name is registered under the Saint Bitts LLC in Saint Kitts and Nevis. The platform provides trading and wallet services for both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. It is also an online casino, store and web portal with a number of regularly updated blog posts and news articles pertaining to Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.
BITCOIN CASH
H Roger Ver was one of the earliest vocal supporters of Bitcoin Cash. He has gone on record several times to declare that Bitcoin Cash had the potential to be even bigger than Bitcoin. Roger has consistently expressed frustration with the congested nature of the Bitcoin network which he claims is a result of the inability of the developers to adopt a bigger block limit size.
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