Dogecoin Jesus? Roger Ver resurfaces on Twitter, backs DOGE over BTC

Roger Ver, an early investor and ardent promoter of Bitcoin (BTC), which earned him the moniker “Bitcoin Jesus,” has resurfaced on Twitter after a 12 months and backed Dogecoin (DOGE) in an interview, preferring it for funds over the world’s first crypto.

In an interview with Bloomberg, the Bitcoin.com founder mentioned how he was a fan of the memecoin because of its quick transaction instances and low charges:

“Dogecoin is significantly better, it’s cheaper and more reliable [than Bitcoin]. If I had to pick three contenders for the world’s dominant cryptocurrency, they would be Doge, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash.”

Ver additionally took time within the interview to voice his assist for “honorary Dogecoin CEO” Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.

“It’ll certainly make Twitter more attractive,” mentioned Ver. “I am really, really grateful that Musk is out there calling out censorship.”

Although Ver was a proponent of Bitcoin for years, he now spends his days as a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) evangelist, the altcoin which forked from Bitcoin after a dispute over the block dimension.

A video posted in March to Ver’s YouTube channel reveals he and his entourage onboarding retail retailers and taxi drivers to make use of Bitcoin Cash as a most well-liked fee technique in Saint-Martin.

Ver says that Bitcoin Cash is the true imaginative and prescient of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, and regardless of all his advocacy for the crypto, he claims he isn’t all in on BCH:

“I am definitely a cryptocurrency whale still, I’ve always had a wide assorted basket in cryptocurrency. I was never a Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash maximalist.”

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In his return to Twitter, Ver wasted little time calling consideration to crypto’s first ideas together with his second tweet after his hiatus on Thursday. He mentioned that custodial wallets like these utilized by merchants interacting with centralized exchanges would trigger Bitcoin to lose a “key revolutionary property.”

If common persons are all utilizing custodial wallets, Bitcoin can have misplaced a key property that made it so revolutionary.

— Roger Ver (@rogerkver) April 28, 2022

Noncustodial wallets the place the consumer retains management over the property permit Bitcoin to face out from banks and different monetary merchandise.