Why Does the Media Keep Referring to Ver as "Bitcoin Jesus"?

[nutildah]

Over the past 2 years, Ver has proven himself to be one of the greediest figures in all of cryptocurrency. Not only did he hijack bitcoin.com to promote BCH, he's been on a relentless crusade to spread misinformation about BTC since the fork, using his "celebrity" to convince others that BCH is actually BTC. This has led to massive amounts of confusion among the public and the media, harming both coins, and now that BCH is falling to the wayside he's simply ramping up his attacks on BTC.

"Since Bitcoin Core is no longer usable as a currency, we should no longer consider it to be a crypto currency." - Dec 13 2017

"Bitcoin Cash is everything that Bitcoin was supposed to be, before it was taken over by a small group of radically minded “Core developers”, largely through propaganda and censorship." - Feb 3 2018 (oh, the irony)

"Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin." - April 5 2018 (no, its not Rog. That's why bitcoin = BTC and Bitcoin Cash = BCH)

Can we get a campaign started to remove this title from him?

Real Jesus would never have been so greedy and manipulative.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-21/five-reasons-bitcoin-jesus-loves-the-currency-video

He's also a convicted felon, and while everybody makes mistakes while they're young, they usually don't make them this badly:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/246762818/UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA-Plaintiff-vs-ROGER-VER-Defendant

https://medium.com/@ssoeborg/could-roger-ver-face-jail-time-again-9ec54df6c918

Not exactly a trustworthy individual. Charismatic, intelligent, well-spoken, are some of the traits also frequently assigned to Bernie Madoff.

I honestly didn't intend for this to be a character assassination, it just came out that way.

[davis196]

What?Satoshi Nakamoto is the one and only Bitcoin Jesus.Some ignorant journalists,who don`t know anything about bitcoin`s history(and can`t make the difference between bitcoin core and bitcoin cash) just wrote down some low quality ignorant posts about Ver.
Perhaps Roger Ver had paid them to proclaim him as the "Bitcoin Jesus".
Anyway,the average newbies just don`t know the difference between BTC and BCH.Perhaps a lot of them will be fooled to believe that BCH is the real bitcoin.

[SuperD007]

I'm not sure ...but I THINK maybe he started calling himself that and then the media just ran with it.

so I think it's more of a self proclaimed thing than anyone actually giving him that title... I could be wrong.

[Kakmakr]

We do not refer to him as "Bitcoin Jesus" anymore, his name has changed to "Bitcoin Judas" According to the Bibble, Judas Iscariot's name is often used synonymously with betrayal or treason. He betrayed Jesus with a Kiss and Roger Ver betrayed the Bitcoin community by switching sides and supporting Bitcoin Cash.

His sole reason for doing this is "Money" and he hides this motive behind ideological arguments that "Bitcoin" is not the "Real" Bitcoin and that Bitcoin Cash <BCash> is the real vision of Satoshi Nakamoto. ^lol^

[nutildah]

I'm not sure ...but I THINK maybe he started calling himself that and then the media just ran with it.

so I think it's more of a self proclaimed thing than anyone actually giving him that title... I could be wrong.

I think you're right. I can't find the original source of how his self-applied moniker came to be, but if anybody out there has some historical documentation on it I'd like to see it.

We do not refer to him as "Bitcoin Jesus" anymore, his name has changed to "Bitcoin Judas"

Hilarious. Love it. And others now refer to him as the "Bitcoin Anarchist"

https://thebitcoin.pub/t/roger-ver-deposits-25-000-btc-to-bitfinex-to-manipulate-the-market/13979

[Steamtyme]

Good luck removing his Title.

I got into Crypto last June and fell for his spiel. The problem is he is vocal and visible. He tells a good tale all the while coming across as sincere in his effort to save bitcoin from the sinister forces trying to ruin it.

Sadly I mined at his pool for far to long before I found this forum and really opened my eyes as to what a big mistake I had been making.

He plays the game better than the community does, he uses social media, media and paid ad promotion to make sure he is the loudest and most visible face of BTC. Even now who out there is vocally challenging him and his views with even a fraction of the impact his words have?

I'm just glad I was able to break away from the sheeple long enough to find a better way.

[Dapper]

I don't think most folks take him seriously.   Anytime I hear his name, I just think to myself how thankful I am that I sold all of my BCH at $3400.   

[nutildah]

Real Jesus: A bastard carpenter from a poor village in Judea.
Bitcoin Jesus: Trust fund kid from Silicon Valley.

Real Jesus: Preached stripping oneself of worldly possessions, giving them to the poor.
Bitcoin Jesus: Enjoys supporting forks so he can sell the coins to buy more BCH, confuses the poor.

Real Jesus: Led a campaign to destroy moneychanger operations in temples.
Bitcoin Jesus: Created a temple specifically designed for moneychanging.

Real Jesus: Died on the cross at age 30, broke.
Bitcoin Jesus: Millionaire by age 30, still after his infinite pursuit of even more cash.

[ladydark]

It's true that earlier Ver was referred as bitcoin Jesus since he promoted bitcoin to spread in earlier days.But when he started to promote BCH terming it as true bitcoin,bitcoin community understood about him and now he is termed as Bitcoin Antichrist and this title suits him the best.

[VitKoyn]

Roger Ver earned the name Bitcoin Jesus because he is known for being a Bitcoin supporter and promoter, his company memorydealers is also one of the first company to accept Bitcoin as payment method. For me, at first he really deserves that moniker because he did a lot of things for people to know about Bitcoin and its development but when Bitcoin started to experience scaling problem, he started to promote a hard fork coin "Bitcoin Cash" and saying that it is the real Bitcoin, and allegedly sold all of his Bitcoin, he doesn't deserve to call by that name anymore. A lot of people refer now as a Bitcoin Judas, Bitcoin Antichrist because he is a traitor.

[cryptorTUX]

Over the past 2 years, Ver has proven himself to be one of the greediest figures in all of cryptocurrency. Not only did he hijack bitcoin.com to promote BCH, he's been on a relentless crusade to spread misinformation about BTC since the fork, using his "celebrity" to convince others that BCH is actually BTC. This has led to massive amounts of confusion among the public and the media, harming both coins, and now that BCH is falling to the wayside he's simply ramping up his attacks on BTC.

"Since Bitcoin Core is no longer usable as a currency, we should no longer consider it to be a crypto currency." - Dec 13 2017

"Bitcoin Cash is everything that Bitcoin was supposed to be, before it was taken over by a small group of radically minded “Core developers”, largely through propaganda and censorship." - Feb 3 2018 (oh, the irony)

"Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin." - April 5 2018 (no, its not Rog. That's why bitcoin = BTC and Bitcoin Cash = BCH)

Can we get a campaign started to remove this title from him?

Real Jesus would never have been so greedy and manipulative.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-21/five-reasons-bitcoin-jesus-loves-the-currency-video

He's also a convicted felon, and while everybody makes mistakes while they're young, they usually don't make them this badly:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/246762818/UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA-Plaintiff-vs-ROGER-VER-Defendant

https://medium.com/@ssoeborg/could-roger-ver-face-jail-time-again-9ec54df6c918

Not exactly a trustworthy individual. Charismatic, intelligent, well-spoken, are some of the traits also frequently assigned to Bernie Madoff.

I honestly didn't intend for this to be a character assassination, it just came out that way.

Let him call himself like he wants and let the media call him like he wants. I have no dubts that he is paying some media channels to go there and shill BCH and thus throwing even more confusion between people. I know that I've been reading about some people who sent their BTC to BCH address because of his false advertisement that BCH is real bitcoin. Whenever he shows up to any interview he is saying the same crap about BCH how it is superior to BTC, like he does is copy paste and hope AND HOPE BCH will succeed so he can earn big since majority of his funds are in BCH right now. I really don't understand people who follow this guy, my condolence to them ha.

I am just glad that his twitter @bitcoin is closed by tweeter, thanks to all people who reported it.

[eternalgloom]

Roger Ver earned the name Bitcoin Jesus because he is known for being a Bitcoin supporter and promoter, his company memorydealers is also one of the first company to accept Bitcoin as payment method. For me, at first he really deserves that moniker because he did a lot of things for people to know about Bitcoin and its development but when Bitcoin started to experience scaling problem, he started to promote a hard fork coin "Bitcoin Cash" and saying that it is the real Bitcoin, and allegedly sold all of his Bitcoin, he doesn't deserve to call by that name anymore. A lot of people refer now as a Bitcoin Judas, Bitcoin Antichrist because he is a traitor.

Bitcoin Judas really is a more fitting title after all the stuff he pulled with Bitcoin Cash, but I still don't think he deserved the name Bitcoin Jesus.
You can't say that he was the only one who did a lot for Bitcoin in the beginning, there were many more people that did the same, if not more.

[chillitabit]

Over the past 2 years, Ver has proven himself to be one of the greediest figures in all of cryptocurrency. Not only did he hijack bitcoin.com to promote BCH, he's been on a relentless crusade to spread misinformation about BTC since the fork, using his "celebrity" to convince others that BCH is actually BTC. This has led to massive amounts of confusion among the public and the media, harming both coins, and now that BCH is falling to the wayside he's simply ramping up his attacks on BTC.

"Since Bitcoin Core is no longer usable as a currency, we should no longer consider it to be a crypto currency." - Dec 13 2017

"Bitcoin Cash is everything that Bitcoin was supposed to be, before it was taken over by a small group of radically minded “Core developers”, largely through propaganda and censorship." - Feb 3 2018 (oh, the irony)

"Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin." - April 5 2018 (no, its not Rog. That's why bitcoin = BTC and Bitcoin Cash = BCH)

Can we get a campaign started to remove this title from him?

Real Jesus would never have been so greedy and manipulative.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-21/five-reasons-bitcoin-jesus-loves-the-currency-video

He's also a convicted felon, and while everybody makes mistakes while they're young, they usually don't make them this badly:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/246762818/UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA-Plaintiff-vs-ROGER-VER-Defendant

https://medium.com/@ssoeborg/could-roger-ver-face-jail-time-again-9ec54df6c918

Not exactly a trustworthy individual. Charismatic, intelligent, well-spoken, are some of the traits also frequently assigned to Bernie Madoff.

I honestly didn't intend for this to be a character assassination, it just came out that way.

the thing with Jesus is very funny indeed. he's the early bitcoin celebrity, notable for many things, infamous recently for Bitcoin Cash, yet usually media like to find some nicknames, Ver ended up with Jesus

[nutildah]

Its just embarrassing that he's the go-to spokesperson for bitcoin, when all he does is pump Bitcoin Cash.

It's like if the United States elected Donald Trump to office only to find out he was actually a Russian spy.

Oh wait a minute....

[Kakmakr]

I'm not sure ...but I THINK maybe he started calling himself that and then the media just ran with it.

so I think it's more of a self proclaimed thing than anyone actually giving him that title... I could be wrong.

I think you're right. I can't find the original source of how his self-applied moniker came to be, but if anybody out there has some historical documentation on it I'd like to see it.

We do not refer to him as "Bitcoin Jesus" anymore, his name has changed to "Bitcoin Judas"

Hilarious. Love it. And others now refer to him as the "Bitcoin Anarchist"

https://thebitcoin.pub/t/roger-ver-deposits-25-000-btc-to-bitfinex-to-manipulate-the-market/13979

You made a small spelling error there. <See the word in red> It should have been Antichrist.

Bible prophecy of the end time talks about a mysterious figure called the Antichrist (also called the "man of sin" and the false prophet)

The false prophet is very descriptive of what he is doing at the moment with Bitcoin Cash. He called his Alt coin something that closely resemble the real Bitcoin, but it is actually the exact opposite and direct competition to the real Bitcoin. <BTC> This is done to deliberately confuse people.

He is also a Anarchist by definition - a person who believes in or tries to bring about anarchy.

[Xester]

That title is not suited for Roger Ver. Jesus is a God, a messiah , this was my belief and the whole Christian community. To compare Ver to Jesus is just blasphemy. Even if we put the concept of Christianity aside Roger Ver cannot be the savior of Bitcoin. He even supported bitcoin cash and left bitcoin so how can we call him that. His words are nothing but for the sake of getting your dollars out of your pocket.

[nutildah]

That title is not suited for Roger Ver. Jesus is a God, a messiah , this was my belief and the whole Christian community. To compare Ver to Jesus is just blasphemy. Even if we put the concept of Christianity aside Roger Ver cannot be the savior of Bitcoin. He even supported bitcoin cash and left bitcoin so how can we call him that. His words are nothing but for the sake of getting your dollars out of your pocket.

Exactly. It's a disgusting title for him to give himself in all respects.

[hugeblack]

Because "He invested over a million dollars into new bitcoin related startups including Ripple, Blockchain.info, Bitpay and Kraken."[1]
The same Media which gave "Bitcoin Jesus" as nickname, caused the rise of the Ripple "Ripple Could Be The Next Bitcoin"[It's the power of money]
Also at the same time that Roger preferred to appear in public, the Bitcoin myths tended to conceal their identities.

Source:
#1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ver

[nutildah]

Because "He invested over a million dollars into new bitcoin related startups including Ripple, Blockchain.info, Bitpay and Kraken."

Okay so he's an investor.

I don't exactly remember Jesus being an investor in anything other than a belief system that tried to get people to act right.

So why do we have to pretend he has anything to do with Jesus?

As someone mentioned earlier, Bitcoin Judas is a far more appropriate title.

[fiulpro]

I don't think that Campaign will go any good because media doesn't care about anything at all..
They just need something to raise eyes on also to be honest I have never thought of him in that way and nor would have anyone here ever .. because everyone is aware of his selfish moves and his motives ..how he got his profit out of Bitcoins and now trying to do the same thing from bitcoins cash.
Well it's the matter of what we take into our hearts uk ..not just what media calls I don't even think he holds any stand here.. everyone already know greedy he is .
If he is given techniques to do anything he.. is the kind of man who would you know open a blood bank by Taking out the blood of mosquitoes😂 no offense to bitcoins cash supporters but you know what he did was so wrong .