Roger Ver gets a lot of hate, but people should actually sit down and listen to a whole interview by him and see his side of the story. The guy really did more for Bitcoin than anyone else, helping to build the entire ecosystem of startups and merchant services that made Bitcoin into a real workable currency... until it was hijacked that is.
It's always like that, "no good deed goes unpunished" as they say.
Even the Bcash thing, I don't like that term, I think it's really insulting to a community that is actually fighting for the real, original Bitcoin. Check out r/BTC and look at how many posts there are there with real discussion, real merchant adoption, real use cases, and compare it to whats on r/Bitcoin where there's literally nothing but memes, and if you bring up any form of criticism, or just acknowledgement of a real problem with transaction fees you get instantly and permanently banned. It's insane.
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Roger Ver is an incredibly smart man and his passion for Bitcoin is truly inspiring. So many youtubers and people on the internet take his sayings out of context and make him look bad. For the Bcash thing, for example, I never knew there was actually a valid reason for him being mad at the interviewer. The youtubers make us believe Roger was just over-dramatic and was mad for absolutely no reason.
After watching the actual interview, I just realized how incredibly passionate Roger is and he's most probably not promoting Bitcoin Cash for his own sake, unlike John Mcafee. I don't know if you've ever seen this video, but it really shows Roger stands for the good of people around the globe when he goes around and promotes Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash.
I absolutely agree, amazing video. I mean it's obvious Roger Ver is not doing this for the money, there's a reason he was called Bitcoin Jesus. He's probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars, money means nothing to him, he is in this for ideological reasons.
Can you imagine the hate this guy gets? Not to mention constant death threats probably from people trying to steal or extort his money or hack him. Who needs that? Who needs the stress? Almost anybody else if they had that much money would just take it and run, or hide under a rock. The guy is a real missionary.
He has his own personal vendetta against the government too for locking him up on a trivial charge. Listening to what he says about his time in prison is also very eye opening.
That man has such a fascinating story behind his name. I should do some more research about him. On youtube, all they show you is a seemingly unstable man, screaming all the time but once you take the time and actually research who he is, what he does and why he does it, this man starts to be someone you understand a bit more and even someone you look up to.