Early Bitcoin adopter Roger Ver faces potential 109-year prison sentence over alleged $48 million tax fraud related to his 2014 U.S. citizenship renunciation and bitcoin holdings, while under house arrest in Spain fighting extradition.
Pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is asking for clemency for Roger Ver, also known as Bitcoin Jesus, who is facing a possible decades-long prison sentence for alleged tax evasion. In a Feb. 20 statement to X,
For better or for worse, Silk Road has been a fixture in the Bitcoin economy ever since the currency first caught the attention of the mainstream media in early 2011. The service is an online black marketplace for goods such as drugs, pirated digital goods ...
That could be a problem, in light of White House Crypto Czar David Sacks' announcement earlier this month that the U.S. government is actively studying the possibility of constituting a national crypto reserve — meaning that the government might stop liquidating seized cryptocurrencies, and even potentially make crypto purchases.
In a historic decision made by the President, Donald Trump has granted a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the infamous Silk Road dark web marketplace, raising debates over his release and for clemency appeal to early Bitcoin advocate Roger Ver, who himself is facing legal troubles.
Silk Road, whose founder Ross Ulbricht was recently pardoned by Trump, was the Wild West of early online harm reduction.
Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, is now seeking a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. Ulbricht, who is serving a
Ross Ulbricht, pardoned founder of the Silk Road marketplace, is publicly advocating for clemency for Roger Ver, known as "Bitcoin Jesus."