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Roger Ver is an entrepreneur best known as the first investor in Bitcoin and the broader Bitcoin ecosystem. He earned the nickname Bitcoin Jesus for his early and intense evangelism of cryptocurrency.
Roger Ver began investing in Bitcoin in early 2011, when a single coin cost around one dollar. His first investment went to Charlie Shrem's company, Bitinstant.
Roger Ver invested more than one million dollars in early Bitcoin startups, including Ripple and Blockchain.com, where he was a co-founder of both. He also provided BitPay's initial seed funding and served as Kraken's seed investor.
Roger Ver renounced his United States citizenship in 2014 after obtaining citizenship in Saint Kitts and Nevis. He later also acquired citizenship in Antigua and Barbuda in 2020.
Roger Ver was arrested in Spain in April 2024 on a United States indictment accusing him of tax evasion. On the 14th of October 2025, he reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, paying $49.9 million, and the government dismissed the indictment.
Roger Ver has often been associated with Bitcoin Cash but has said he is not its creator. He describes his support as going to whichever cryptocurrency functions as "peer-to-peer cash," the standard set out in Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper.