In this interview, Roger Ver shared his version as to why he was arrested in Spain half a year ago and his view of what Bitcoin has turned into by now. He also answered Carlson’s question about who Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious founder of Bitcoin, was.
As reported by U.Today, on April 30, Roger Ver was taken in custody in Spain at the demand of the U.S. Department of Justice on charges of committing tax evasion and causing a loss of “at least $48 million” to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Ver believes that his arrest is not related to taxes but rather to his support of Bitcoin in the crypto’s earliest days – and with his current claims that Bitcoin does not give people any privacy in their purchasing power.
Ver says he knew that this sort of action could be dangerous, so in 2014, he dropped his U.S. citizenship and became a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean through its investment program.
Ver said that his arrest took place a decade after he renounced his U.S. citizenship and just a couple of months after his book “Hijacking Bitcoin” came out, in which he shared his belief that Bitcoin now is not what Satoshi Nakamoto had in mind when he created it.
But whoever he or she is, per Ver, they invented “one of the most important things in the entire history of human kind,” likening Bitcoin in importance to electricity, the transistor and the internet.
This article was originally published on U.Today
Source: Cryptocurrency - investing.com
