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Roger Ver doesn’t actually like you. He just wants to use you. And everyone on Bitcoin.com, Bitcoin reddit, or any other such media entity that he has bought and paid for to ‘shill’ you into believing that BCH is the real BTC.
He does mainstream finance (Bloomberg, CNBC, FT, WSJ) interviews hoping to spread his version of the gospel that a fork of Satoshi’s sacred vision is somehow better than the original itself. And he brings with him a merry band of lawyers and trolls that will blow up your world if you dare to meaningfully disrupt his quest.
It is hard to find an equivalent to Roger in the modern economy. If we could find such an analogy we’d surely print it.
Maybe a Gordon Gecko? Nah. He was fictional and a pure opportunist, not an evangelist. Or how about Bernie Madoff? That’s a no go as well. Bernie was a serial liar and thief.
Certainly no ‘core belief’ thumping preacher of some sort of financial theology.
But that is what Roger seems to be. A television evangelist attempting to sell you a better version of the truth. If we could only see it the way that he does we would all be set free!!! He will even go to great lengths to create the illusion of communities of scale, fervent followers, and a network of use cases that, as he would like us to believe, are the original vision (but only better) of Satoshi.
If you once held the title of ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ it isn’t a bridge too far to believe that you actually are, but your corrupt vision somehow offers more benefits and opportunities. Stop here if you are disinterested in theology, but the attack on the throne has been attempted for millennia and ultimately ends in the demise of the attacker. Old Testament, New Testament, Kings, Queens, Prime Ministers, President’s, CEO’s, and on and on and on.
When you attempt to be the fake version of something or someone, and take the mantle away from a true original (Bitcoin), you are destined to fail.
It is why it makes his quest and total commitment to his cause almost fascinating, if you can stand to look at it for more than a few minutes.
Every single day Roger finds a new way to shill BCASH no matter the loud chorus of long time originalists who mock him incessantly. It is almost admirable to watch him spit into the wind the way he does. Almost.
But then he runs a conference scam in Asia and everyone is reminded what a douchebag he is; or pops off on twitter in the same way and creates another embarrassment for himself. All the while being completely unaware (or uninterested) in how the rest of the crypto world views his need for attention and validation. Pride never fails to create the worst version of ourselves, and in this case, his Bitcoin Cash quest is doing just that.
We don’t get Roger Ver.
Not at all. A Bitcoin millionaire (maybe even billionaire at one time?) eschews the legacy of respect and gravitas that could have been his as an association with the earliest of days of the movement, for what? A bigger booth at the alt-coin conference?
Strange. Strange, indeed. .
