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Roger Ver, an early investor in and promotor of Bitcoin, is facing life in prison for revealing how the US government worked secretly to subvert cryptocurrency and prevent economic freedom.
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By Neenah Payne as published by Activist Post on 20 December 2024
Roger Ver is widely known as “Bitcoin Jesus” for his early promotion of the cryptocurrency. In 1999, at age 19 while in college, Ver founded MemoryDealers.com, the first business to accept Bitcoin as payment. Around 2017, the multi-millionaire Bitcoin advocate switched his allegiance to Bitcoin Cash.
Ver calls Bitcoin “one of the most important inventions in the history of humankind.” He is best known for managing Bitcoin.com from 2015-19. Ver says in the video further below with Tucker Carlson that he bought Bitcoin when it cost less than $1. This month, Bitcoin broke through $100K for the first time. Ver points out that some people are now using Monero for more privacy.
Ver relocated to Japan in 2006. When he renounced his US citizenship in 2014, Ver became a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis. In April this year, Ver was arrested in Spain at the behest of US authorities while on a trip to Barcelona to attend a crypto conference. The Biden administration wanted to put Ver in jail for 109 years! However, the crypto-friendly Trump administration is unlikely to do that.
US authorities are seeking his extradition on charges including tax evasion, mail fraud and filing false tax returns. Prosecutors claim Ver undervalued his assets and failed to report ownership of about 131,000 bitcoins. Ver denied the allegations in an interview with Tucker Carlson on 10 December. “I wasn’t an American citizen or living in the US at the time these claims were made,” Ver said.
Ver accused the US government of being “angry” not about taxes but about his “lack of obedience.” The Bitcoin evangelist also linked his indictment to the publication in April 2024 of the book ‘Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC’ which he claims exposes government interference in the cryptocurrency industry. Ver is contesting charges made against him by the US Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Tucker Carlson Interview
According to a Bloomberg report, Ver was permitted to leave jail on 17 May on the condition that he hand in his passport and remain in Spain pending a decision on his extradition to the US where he faces $50 million tax evasion charges. Ver was released on bail after posting a €150,000 bail. Ver must report to court every two days and must remain on the island of Maiorca.
Ver says in the video below that only Tucker has interviewed him since his arrest in April. Ver asks people to sign the ‘Open Letter To Free Roger’ HERE. The site currently has 16,812 signatures with a goal of 20,000.
Why the Intel Agencies Want to Track Your Every Transaction and Throw Roger Ver in Jail for Life (Bitcoin News)
Roger Ver is facing life in prison for revealing how the US government worked secretly to subvert cryptocurrency and prevent economic freedom. More people should hear this story.
Known for his early investments in bitcoin (BTC) and his libertarian advocacy, Bitcoin.com founder Roger Ver faces potential extradition to the United States from Spain on allegations of tax evasion – charges he strongly contests.
“I think they’re not really angry about taxes at all,” Ver told Carlson during his interview, emphasising what he perceives as the US government’s disapproval of his long-standing promotion of financial autonomy through cryptocurrencies. Often referred to as “Bitcoin Jesus,” Ver was one of the earliest adopters and proponents of cryptocurrency, investing heavily in its ecosystem.
The entrepreneur always advocated for Bitcoin to function as peer-to-peer cash, Ver explained, criticising how he believes the leading cryptocurrency has been transformed into a speculative asset. According to him, early hopes for Bitcoin as an alternative to fiat currency were subverted by a combination of intelligence agencies and institutional players.
He detailed these claims in his book, ‘Hijacking Bitcoin’. Carlson noted the ideological shift in cryptocurrency. The podcast host explained how the promise of Bitcoin was freedom – autonomy over your own money, but now it felt different. Carlson said he was “very interested in how that happened.” The interview delved into Ver’s assertions that US agencies have sought to stifle the potential of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
He accused intelligence agencies of intervening early on to promote narratives that reduced Bitcoin’s use as a medium of exchange. Ver claimed that online forums such as bitcointalk.org and the Bitcoin subreddit r/bitcoin were manipulated through censorship and propaganda, which allegedly steered the currency away from its decentralised roots.
He asserted that moderators aligned with US intelligence agencies suppressed discussions about scaling Bitcoin for global use. Ver, who renounced his US citizenship in 2014 and adopted St. Kitts and Nevis nationality, questioned the legal basis for his extradition. He emphasised that he was not a US citizen during the years in question and adhered strictly to his tax obligations through legal counsel.
Carlson asked Ver if he felt Bitcoin was originally crafted by US intelligence agencies. “I don’t think it was created that way initially, but I am suspicious and I do think the intelligence agencies and other groups have converted it and hijacked it into becoming a financial trap,” he said.
Despite facing a possible 109-year prison sentence, Ver maintained optimism. He expressed hope that the Spanish courts would reject the extradition request and emphasised the need for public advocacy. “There’s a lot of ways to stop this but the most useful way I think is to get the public to speak out,” Ver remarked. “The more people speak out, the safer all of us can be.”
Ver told Carlson that his supporters set up a website at freerogernow.org and said that the website hosts his Motion to Dismiss. “[This is] where you can literally see for yourself with your own eyes, the US government is literally lying in their indictment and the proof is up there with the emails between myself and my attorneys,” Ver stated. “You can go and see it. Please go take a look at it.”
The Bitcoin entrepreneur added: “Don’t take my word for it, take a look at that Motion to Dismiss, they’re lying … they’re lying to the court in Spain they’re just lying every which way, because they don’t want the world to know the truth about cryptocurrencies.”
“I’m a little bit surprised that the government of Spain is honouring the extradition request,” Carlson remarked during the interview, diving straight into the heart of the matter with Ver. Calling the US government’s charges “absurd on its face,” Tucker questioned why Spain would even consider going along with such an extreme move. Ver, ever the composed optimist, praised his Spanish attorney’s efforts, sharing that his lawyer in Spain remains “optimistic about the situation,” despite the looming uncertainty. Ver remarked that he is “cautiously optimistic that Spain will see through this.”
Ver stated: “President Biden can do the right thing. He just recently pardoned his own son. He can issue a pre-emptive pardon for me. Trump when he gets into office, if anyone knows what it’s like to be the victim of lawfare, it’s Trump. So, I think he’ll be able to see it with this case as well. [Trump] can issue a pre-emptive pardon for me as well, and for a bunch of other people that deserve it.”
“That is just one of the craziest stories I think I ever heard,” Carlson concluded. “Roger, Godspeed, we are just rooting for you fervently and I hope this helps in some small way. You’re in our thoughts.”
Book: Hijacking Bitcoin
Roger Ver is the author of the April 2024 book ‘Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC’. The following is the book’s description on Amazon.
Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin’s design.
Few people know the true history of Bitcoin and its original design due to years of heavy censorship, social media engineering and tight information controls online. Hijacking Bitcoin destroys the most popular narratives that surround Bitcoin and sets the historical record straight.
Roger Ver’s passion and pain come through as he tells the story of a beloved project corrupted in front of his eyes. Written by one of the most prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry, this book is impossible to ignore.
From the inside flap: Bitcoin has been captured and changed for the worse. That’s the undeniable conclusion of Hijacking Bitcoin. Chocked full of history and inconvenient truths, this book goes on a myth-busting rampage against the most popular narratives that surround BTC.
Is Bitcoin truly decentralised? Is it supposed to be digital gold or digital cash? Did the original design really have scaling problems? Roger Ver addresses these questions head-on and provides uncomfortable answers.
Roger Ver is the world’s first investor in Bitcoin startups and has been a prominent name in the cryptocurrency industry since the beginning. Yet, as he confesses in the introduction, this book is not a love story. It’s a devastating exposé of the corruption, propaganda and centralisation of power in Bitcoin.
Roger Ver’s legal team moves to dismiss indictment citing government overreach (Fox Business)
Ver is also known by the moniker ‘Bitcoin Jesus’
When popular Bitcoin influencer Roger Ver, known by his 700,000 X followers as “Bitcoin Jesus,” was arrested in May while attending a cryptocurrency conference in Barcelona, the $3 trillion digital asset industry erupted with social media posts and commentary from leading industry voices condemning the act as yet another example of the Biden administration’s “war on crypto.”
Ver’s arrest came after the US Attorney for the Central District of California unsealed an eight-count criminal indictment accusing him of allegedly failing to pay nearly $50 million in taxes on the sale of some $240 million worth of Bitcoin in 2017 and under-representing the value of his Bitcoin holdings in 2014 when he renounced his citizenship and left the US for the Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Lawyers for Ver, 45, an early adopter and promoter of Bitcoin who has publicly criticized the U.S. government’s approach to crypto regulation, say the Justice Department’s indictment is purely political and another example of Biden-era officials using enforcement to regulate a space without providing clear rules of the road.
Now Ver and his lawyers are fighting back. His legal team is made up of attorneys from white-shoe law firms Steptoe LLP and Kimura London & White, who on Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, citing unconstitutional government overreach and misleading evidence. They are hoping that a crypto-friendly Trump administration will drop the case as part of the president-elect’s promise to end the prior administration’s regulatory assault on the industry.
Presidential Pardon For Ver
Why Roger Ver Deserves a Presidential Pardon (Brownstone Institute)
The US government is attempting to imprison Roger Ver for 109 years for the crime of following his lawyers’ advice. His case represents an unprecedented attack on attorney-client privilege that threatens everyone who relies on professional counsel. Today, Ver sits silenced in Spain, unable to defend himself publicly, while prosecutors use his own lawyers’ records against him – records that show his meticulous attempts to follow the law. This isn’t just about cryptocurrency; it’s about whether any American can safely consult legal counsel without fear of prosecution.
If this precedent stands, seeking professional advice could become evidence of criminality. Business owners, entrepreneurs, and ordinary citizens who rely on lawyers and accountants will all be at risk. The time to act is now, before this dangerous precedent becomes permanent.
Trump’s Plan To End Crypto Crackdown
‘Trump: Time 2024 Person of The Year’ shows that on 12 December, Time magazine chose Trump as the 2024 “Person of the Year” recognising the president-elect as the person deemed to have wielded the greatest influence on global affairs. As part of the honour, Trump rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange. At the NYSE, Trump was described as the “most crypto-friendly” president in history.
- Read: DON IT TWICE Trump becomes first president since Ronald Reagan to ring NYSE bell as he celebrates second Time Person of the Year win, The US Sun, 12 December 2024
- Watch: Sec Commissioner Backs Trump’s Plan To End Crypto Crackdown
People on Ver’s legal team are hoping that a crypto-friendly Trump administration will drop the case as part of the president-elect’s promise to end the regulatory assault on the industry.
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Of course Trump will drop the case, he’s all in with social credit score and has plans to sell US resources, like farms and oil, to his buddies for the fake bitcoin they amassed for themselves in preparation for Trump.
The Man Who Really Created Bitcoin Understanding The (NSA) SHA-256 Algorithm Bitcoin The Man Who Really Created Bitcoin
Gavin Andresen
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Andresen
Bitcoin has only 3 big holders that “manipulate”
Bitcoin Prices.
1. BlackRock
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/05/29/blackrock-takes-the-crown-for-the-largest-spot-bitcoin-etf-from-grayscale/
2. US Government
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2023/06/16/us-government-owns-way-more-bitcoin-than-any-other-countryso-why-arent-they-selling-it/
3.Microstrategeies
https://www.microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-acquires-additional-11931-bitcoins-and-now-holds-226331-btc_06-20-2024
El Savador:
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/29/identity-thieves-exploit-el-salvadors-chivo-bitcoin-wallets-setup-process/
El Savador: The government opened a digital wallet called Chivo, and gave every citizen the equivalent of $30 in bitcoin. But hundreds of the Chivo accounts were hacked, and the money was stolen along with the account owner’s identity.
* Bitcoin is designed by the (NSA) to suck fiat money from the system to remove privacy and
freedom which the dollars give anonymous transactions like Gold and Silver
Who is Gavin Andresen?
https://beincrypto.com/satoshi-nakamoto-speculation-cia-bitcoin-creator/
The (NSA) and Bitcoin: Origins of the SHA-256 Hashing Algorithm
https://supra.com/academy/the-nsa-and-bitcoin-origins-of-the-sha-256-hashing-algorithm/
Guess What? Bitcoin Isn’t
Decentralized
https://medium.com/hackernoon/guess-what-bitcoin-isnt-decentralized-ecab67de653d
Bitcoin’s network around (4 miners) have the same power. This boils down to an unfortunate truth: Crypto assets are not as decentralized
Gary Gensler Says Bitcoin Is ‘Ransomware’ and ‘Not Decentralized’
https://dailyhodl.com/2024/02/14/gary-gensler-says-bitcoin-is-token-of-choice-for-ransomware-and-not-that-decentralized/
The Chair of the U.S. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says Bitcoin (BTC) isn’t as decentralized as the public believes.
GAVIN ANDRESEN JUNE 8, 2022 Reasonable People Can Disagree
https://gavinandresen.ninja/
GAVIN ANDRESEN
https://gavinandresen.ninja/a-possible-btc-future
@gavinandresen
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
A Possible BTC Future
Bitcoins 3 big holders that manipulate Bitcoin Prices.
1. BlackRock
2. US Government
3. Microstrategeies
The transactions that do occur on the main BTC network are high-value, mostly between super-whale-size holders (centralized exchanges, central banks, and the decentralized multiparty computation addresses that hold all the wrapped coins).
These whales maintain the BTC network FOREVER. They are the miners and the transaction creators; they don’t care how high transaction fees go, because they receive as many fees as they pay.
In the year 2100 the whales notice that the mining reward is basically zero, and there are fewer and fewer transactions happening on the slow, expensive, zero-privacy BTC network. So they decide to simplify and save money by shutting it down.
One by one, they shutdown the “bridges” that move BTC between chains. Then they burn any BTC locked on the BTC chain by sending it to the 0x000… address, to make sure nobody can ever spend it on the BTC network.
Eventually, there are zero new BTC being produced on the BTC network, and zero BTC circulating on the BTC network. There is nothing left to secure, and the chain stops.
Bitcoin Scam Update:
The “NEXT” bankers’ HEIST”: Swap US government-owned land and minerals for worthless “FAKE” Cryptocurrency Bitcoin BAGHOLDERS!
https://expose-news.com/2024/11/29/the-next-bankers-heist/
By Rhoda Wilson on November 29, 2024
The US government may be planning to use taxpayers’ money to buy Bitcoin and hold it on government balance sheets.
The “NEXT” Bitcoin scam
https://videopress.com/v/n3HgeitO
Why? To benefit Bitcoin billionaires.
This move would allow the billionaires to exit their Bitcoin holdings at a high price and use the funds to acquire real assets such as land and minerals.
It should be taken in the context of discussions about land and minerals owned by the US government.
Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a leading financial services firm, and Chairman and CEO of BGC Partners Inc., a global brokerage company, has been nominated to be President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Commerce.
Bloomberg noted on Wednesday that the knot of his conflicts of business interests when in a government position is unlikely to loosen easily.
In a recent interview, Lutnick discussed how to take advantage of “$500 trillion of land and minerals owned by the US government.”
The goal, Catherine Austin Fitts says, is to swap the US government’s balance sheet from priceless assets, such as land and minerals, to worthless assets, such as Bitcoin.
“You have to give the bankers credit,” Austin Fitts says. “Who would have thought they could build a bigger heist than the pandemic this quickly?”
Plunder Capitalism: Is the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Trial Balloon the Next Step in the Great American Land Grab?
Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick described US land and mineral assets.
Clipped from ‘Billionaire Says Bitcoin, Tariffs and Donald Trump Will Make You Rich | Howard Lutnick’, Anthony Pompliano, 28 October 2024
By Catherine Austin Fitts, 18 November 2024
We are researching what looks to be the next phase in the financial coup d’état.
We are watching what appears to be a significant “astroturf” campaign to persuade the federal and state governments to begin significant Bitcoin (“BTC”) buying programs using taxpayers’ money and funds borrowed with ever-expanding debt to fund BTC to be held on government balance sheets.
This will solve a major problem faced by the Bitcoin billionaires – how to liquefy their holdings in a market that is not sufficiently broad and deep to allow them an exit during a major pump.
Why would they want to exit now?
Because now that the debt growth model is over, and there is more paper than there are real assets, the rush for land and real assets is on. Think of this as a swap.
If you are a Bitcoin billionaire and Mr. Global, you want to get retail (SUCKERS) to buy your digital creations so that you can shift to owning and controlling the real assets.
Your problem, however, is that retail will not buy in sufficient quantity – so, you simply mandate retail buys by using the government to do it.
You also want to glorify your digital creations and not draw attention to the land, minerals, gold, and other real assets.
The last thing you want is a wave of retail buying that makes the price of real assets higher.
It is important to connect the dots with the federal government’s efforts to survey all land and mineral resources and the growing discussion of how to take advantage of “$500 trillion of land and minerals owned by the U.S. government” (See interview above with Howard Lutnick, head of NY Fed primary dealer Cantor Fitzgerald, and nominee for Secretary of Commerce). The land and minerals cannot disappear out the back door in the way that the black-budget technology and the missing $21 trillion were.
So, what is the best way to plunder the remaining assets?
Swap them for BTC, which started off as a great idea but has been hijacked and is now operating as a pump-and-dump vehicle.
If you can get government buying programs to send the BTC price to the moon, exit your holdings, and use the funding to pick up rich land and minerals, you can swap the US balance sheet out of priceless and into worthless.
And if you can arrange for the sale of BTC to be tax-free, as was trial-ballooned by one RFK at Bitcoin 2024, the economics become wildly sweet.
This is a bit like the financial equivalent of vaccine mandates. When there is little market, just have the government buy it and mandate it. And kill millions.
It is hard for anyone to fathom a more outrageous “reverse Robin Hood” – take from the poor and give to the rich. However, if you look at the success of the pandemic, we are reminded that “crime that pays is crime that stays,” and so the hubris continues to grow.
Just start telling politicians that using taxpayers’ resources (other people’s money) to buy BTC will strategically position them to be “innovative” and attract the tech entrepreneurs to build the high-tech economy of the future.
Imagine an entire society of people already being brutalized by inflation and then using their retirement savings and taxes to pump the BTC price, thereby taking the Bitcoin billionaires out of their Ponzi scheme at the top.
You have to give the bankers credit. Who would have thought they could build a bigger heist than the pandemic this quickly?
In the meantime, we are collecting related elements of the chronology and video and article links here.
Feel free to join in by posting your contributions in the comments below [the article on The Solari Report].
And stay tuned … this discussion has only just begun.
Related: Breaking (Down) The Chain: An Investigation Post-mortem, Unlimited Hangout, 18 November 2024
Related Solari Reports:
https://home.solari.com/plunder-capitalism-is-the-bitcoin-strategic-reserve-trial-balloon-the-next-step-in-the-great-american-land-grab/
Book Review: Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver
Questions for RFK Regarding Your Proposed Bitcoin Executive Orders
About the Author
Catherine Austin Fitts is an American investment banker and former public official. She has served as Managing Director of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., a Wall Street investment bank, Assistant Secretary of Housing, and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush and President of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. She is now the President of Solari, Inc., publisher of The Solari Report, and managing member of Solari Investment Screens, LLC.
Featured image: The federal government owns and manages approximately 650 million acres of land in the United States – about 30% of the nation’s total surface area. (left) Source: US Government Accountability Office
Government didn’t hijack bitcoin!
They created bitcoin and pushed it out into the internet to get people hooked on crypto so when the time comes they can collapse the current fiat cash system and force everyone into their digital dystopian nightmare coming in the spring of 2025!
This banker from the BIS ~ “Bank of International Settlement” tells us in less than 1 minute that the tools of the NWO require every citizen to have a digital ID uploaded, a bank account, and a smartphone which most citizens already have 2 of the 3!:
https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/digital-id-bank-account-smartphone-new-world-imf-spring-meetings/
The globalists will then demand a “digital ID” upload to enter the internet to buy and sell with the beast!:
https://sumofthyword.com/2022/05/18/the-mark-of-the-beast/
The patent (US6829355B2) for the SHA-256 algorithm was filed by the NSA on March 5th, 2001, listing Glenn M Lilly as the inventor. The patent was granted and published on December 7th, 2004.
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