Roger Ver
| Roger Ver | |
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December 2016
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| Born | February 1979 San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Occupation |
Entrepreneur CEO |
| Known for | Investing in Bitcoin, becoming one of the world's first "virtual millionaires" |
| Movement |
Libertarianism Voluntaryism Anarcho-capitalism |
| Website | rogerver |
Roger Ver (born in February 1979) is a former politician and a Kittitian/Nevisian early investor in bitcoin related startups. He was formerly an American citizen. He was born and lived in Silicon Valley. He now resides in Japan. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and sees bitcoin as a mean to promote economic freedom. He identifies as a libertarian, an anarcho-capitalist, peace advocate and advocates for individualism and voluntaryism.
He was born in San Jose. He attended De Anza College for a year, dropping out to pursue his business interests.
He initially did well with a computer parts business, MemoryDealers.com, which saw him become a millionaire by the time he was 25. He was the CEO of MemoryDealers.com from 1999 until 2012. In 2000, he attempted to enter politics by running for California State Assembly as a candidate for the Libertarian Party.
He moved to Japan in 2006. He became a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis and renounced his United States citizenship in 2014. In 2015, he was denied a visa to reenter the United States by the U.S. Embassy in Barbados, which claimed that he had not sufficiently proven ties outside of the United States that would motivate him to leave at the end of his visit, causing fears he might become an illegal immigrant. Later in the same year his visa was approved by the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, and he visited the United States in June 2016 to speak at a conference in Denver, Colorado.
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