TheCryptoLam

Roger Ver is one of Bitcoins greatest heroes That is why the BTC maxis attack him, as he exposes their lies The truth is that BTC was hijacked & perverted by bad actors, destroying Satoshi's vision History has been laid bare for all to see, as the truth will set us free: 🧵 Bitcoin was meant to be used as money & a store of value, the hijackers (Core) went on to destroy BTC's money-like properties; by arbitrarily restricting the capacity of the network, contrary to Satoshi's original plans for the project This all means that today BTC cannot be used as a form of money (medium of exchange) at scale at all. Annihilating BTC's former potential to serve as a type of "freedom money", as now mass adoption is only possible through centralized custodians... To make things even worse these changes have dire consequences for the long-term security budget, to the point where BTC will completely collapse somewhere between 4 to 12 years from now... We have covered this in far more detail elsewhere, the point of this thread is not to improve on those in scope Instead, today's focus is on Roger, the hero of our story, as like me he fought against these changes, refusing to back down, except he was not just another Bitcointalk lurker like I was at that time. He was the first angel investor in Bitcoin, when I joined in 2013 he even had the nickname of "Bitcoin Jesus" as he tirelessly evangelized Bitcoin's vision to the world & did more than anyone else to bring crypto into the mainstream in those very early days Back then I was still a die-hard Bitcoiner myself, as I believed in Satoshi's vision thoroughly & still do to this very day, like Roger, we did not change, but BTC did! To watch the thing you love more than anything else in this world get perverted & destroyed in this way is tragic, which is why we fought in the block-size wars, to decide on BTC's fate. We lost that battle but not the war as the altcoins carry on that vision today instead Some like to tell romantic stories about those days from Core's perspective, as if it is some sort of romantic triumph of good over evil & that this represents a victory of the people... Nothing could be further from the truth, as the vast majority of our industry supported a capacity increase, from users, companies & miners. Core still got it their way, the perfect example of a totally centralized decision-making process; this was straight-up dictatorial! Even to the point of a mass censorship campaign over all of the major communication channels at that time, where anyone who supported increasing capacity was banned, even discussing the censorship got you banned. This censorship still happens to this day. Thankfully the more prominent crypto discussions have since moved to X so I can say these things out loud here History easily could have turned out very differently, if for example certain exchanges flipped the naming schemes between the BTC & BCH forks... As this also heavily influenced public perceptions. As it was in fact a bait & switch @Rogerkver's & @Steveinpursuit's book "Hijacking Bitcoin" does a great job of covering this history thoroughly, I highly recommend reading it On a more personal note; I watched all of my heroes fall starting from 2013, as I admired many of these public figures, who one by one sold out or betrayed the principles of this movement. Roger is one of the few heroes still standing from that time in my mind Making it all the more infuriating that Roger is currently facing extradition & a lifetime in jail for not paying enough in crypto taxes to a country he revoked his citizenship for years before. This all happened right after he published his book, which is also awfully suspicious This is why the BTC maxis really hate roger, as they fear him, as they are the villains in this story & Roger is Bitcoin's true hero exposing them to the light So sign the petition to #freeroger & apply pressure in anyway you can. As Roger Ver is a man who obviously has a very keen sense of justice, that passion is in his bones. So for such a man to face such an incredibly unjust sentence is something we all should fight against. As now is the time for us to give back to the man that has given us so much