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What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, May 1st, and today we are talking about Roger

Vairr being arrested. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown,

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Yesterday, we were talking all about CZ from Binance's sentencing. And as that was happening,

in fact, as I was waiting for the judge to hand down the sentence, which ended up, of course,

being four months because CZ four, you get it, news broke that another arrest in the crypto space had happened,

and this time it was Roger Ver. There, if you're not familiar, was one of the earliest Bitcoin investors and evangelists. He was so pivotal in the early 2012-2013-era Bitcoin community

that he came to be known by the moniker Bitcoin Jesus. Most notably, Verr was the CEO of

Wallet developer and news site Bitcoin.com

during the early days. Now, if you don't have a rosy impression of Vair, it's probably because

during the block size wars, he became a key antagonist. He sided with the big blockers and pushed

his agenda, in some cases using extremely aggressive tactics. Verr went on to play a pivotal role

in the 2017 founding of Bitcoin

cash, a big blocked fork of Bitcoin intended to support payments. Since then, Verre's influence

in the Bitcoin space has largely faded into irrelevance. Well, yesterday he was arrested in Spain

on criminal tax evasion charges. The IRS alleges that Ver failed to pay roughly $48 million

in taxes related to the ownership

and sale of Bitcoin. The case is fairly technical dealing with the intricacies of U.S. citizenship

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