So much FUD in one post!
Roger Ver at some point will probably be arrested and thrown into prison for tax evasion. If it is true he has 300,000 Bitcoins then he's on the hook for some $120+ million in back taxes to the IRS and penalties / interest from when he left USA in 2014. I'm not sure about the IRS penalties but they could very well seize everything he owns due to the obvious massive conspiracy to commit tax fraud. The token amount he gave them years ago was nowhere close to his owed amount.
Have you seen my tax returns? I spent close to $1M USD just on lawyers and tax accountants alone to help me file everything exactly perfectly.
I've paid the IRS millions upon millions of dollars and I've never had a "tax problem" with the IRS ever, despite having been audited numerous times.
Actually this is also the guy who is also a convicted terrorist too, for mailing explosives in the mail. So it's practically a step backwards to commit something petty (by comparison to terrorism) like tax fraud.
My crime was "Dealing in Explosives
WITHOUT A LICENSE". I sold store bought fire crackers on ebay, and my crime was doing it without the right government paperwork. It was a politically motivated prosecution. Even while I was in prison, the company I bought the fireworks from, and the manufacturer were still selling them without a license. Details
here.
Surprised Japan let him in and the various agencies aren't bothering him yet. I guess Roger Ver avoiding drugs has kept him out of the spotlight or maybe he's giving people envelopes full of cash?
Maybe it is because Japan is a freer country than the USA, and every convenience store in the country sells fireworks in the summer time. Try finding that in the land of the free.
But arguably Roger Ver's rambling and trying to assert an authority image has hurt Bitcoin more than help it (especially the white legal side. The criminal black side probably loves Roger Ver's libertarian rambles).
I've arguably done more to help the legal side of Bitcoin adoption than anyone else in the world. Go and read this
book for the details. Calling my thoughts "libertarian rambles" doesn't make them any less true. Taxation is theft. The draft is kidnapping and slavery. War is mass murder funded by theft. I refuse to condone any of those things.