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<p lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB">Roger Ver, former “Bitcoin Jesus” known as a rigorous proponent of Bitcoin Cash for many years now, has taken to the X platform (formerly popular as Twitter) to remind the cryptocurrency community about the founder of the <a href="https://u.today/silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht-turns-40-with-11-years-spent-behind-bars">Silk Road darknet marketplace – Ross Ulbricht</a>.</p>
<h2 id="roger-ver-s-important-tweet-about-ulbricht">Roger Ver's important tweet about Ulbricht</h2>
<p lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB">Ver reminded the community that Ulbricht was sentenced to a double lifetime term in prison without a chance of parole. Ulbricht was arrested in 2013, when he was 29; the Silk Road, where illegal drugs were traded for Bitcoin, shut down the same year.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB">Since that year, he has been doing his jail time and has spent 11 years behind bars already. On March 27, he turned 40.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB">Roger Ver stressed that the creation of the Silk Road and all the trading performed on it was crucial for introducing Bitcoin to the world and added a link to the website, where anyone can sign the petition to urge U.S. authorities to set him free. Almost 600,000 people have left their signatures on it already. Ver wrote: "His 'crime' was building a website where people could trade freely without government permission."</p>
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 <p lang="en" dir="ltr">A double life sentence + 40 years with no chance of parole.Ross was sentenced at the age of 29. He turns 40 today.His “crime” was building a website where people could trade freely without government permission. In the process he introduced the world to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a>… <a href="https://t.co/5OHPWRMBU1">pic.twitter.com/5OHPWRMBU1</a></p>— Roger Ver (@rogerkver) <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/1773330842594820471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a>
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<h2 id="roger-ver-s-recent-book-on-bitcoin">Roger Ver's recent book on Bitcoin&nbsp;</h2>
<p lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB">Recently, <a href="https://u.today/1-million-bitcoin-enthusiast-samson-mow-says-roger-ver-should-not-return-to-btc">Roger Ver co-authored a book called “Hijacking Bitcoin”</a> in collaboration with Steve Patterson. In this book, Ver details his view that after Satoshi Nakamoto’s exit from the public space, Bitcoin was left in the hands of a narrow group of developers who changed BTC as they saw fit, thus corrupting the pioneer cryptocurrency, which was created as an alternative to government-controlled money and central banks.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB">One of the earliest Bitcoiners, who corresponded with Satoshi himself and then created the Bitcoin Lightning Network, Adam Back, addressed Ver in a tweet, offering him to return to BTC. However, another prominent Bitcoiner and Adam Back’s Blockstream’s chief strategy officer Samson Mow objected to that, saying that Ver should stay with Bitcoin Cash.</p>

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