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by afc 779 days ago
Not very surprising. He had already been arrested, back in 2002, for selling illegal stuff on eBay. He was somewhat of an attacker of Bitcoin, promoting his "bcash" fork.
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hggh 779 days ago
For reference, that "illegal stuff" were just fireworks (too powerful, I guess) [0]. Those "attacks" are fully explained in his recent book "Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC" [1]. He didn't fork Bitcoin, he just proposed its name: Bitcoin Cash [2], which is not "bcash" [2][3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ver [1] https://www.hijackingbitcoin.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash [3] https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/why-some-people-call-bit...

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lawn 779 days ago
Roger has consistently been promoting the same ideals from the beginning.

BCH was also never "his" fork, it was just the fork he started to support.

"bash" is a slur to attack the BCH fork, same as the character assassination that Roger has been subjected to.

Finally, he sold firecrackers on eBay.

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