Roger Ver Makes Million Dollar Bitcoin Donation
Investors, Merchants, News, Payments, Trending December 2, 2013 Comments Off on Roger Ver Makes Million Dollar Bitcoin Donation 37Roger Ver, CEO of MemoryDealers made the largest ever charitable bitcoin donation — a million dollars — after ‘losing’ a bet he made with the world about its rise, as reported on Coindesk.com by Jon Southworth.
Ver actually made an initial bet of $10,000 (the value of 1,000 BTC at the time) but recent events have pushed the dollar value into seven figures, setting the record.
“A little over two years ago I made a bet for $10,000 that bitcoin would outperform gold, silver, the US stock market and the US dollar by more than one hundred times over the next two years,” he posted in a video message on YouTube.
“I’m here today to say that I was wrong, In reality it took about two years and two months for bitcoin to outperform everything else by more than a hundred times. Over that time, gold and silver are down, the stock market is up about 45 per cent, but Bitcoin is up more than 15,000 per cent, or more than three hundred times everything else.”
Despite the prediction being off by a couple of months, Ver decided to obey the letter of the original bet on principle and donate the 1,000 BTC to the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), “the organization that published the books and articles that allowed me to understand just how important Bitcoin would become.”
His wager would have sounded crazy to an outsider in late 2011. Even though the bet was with the world in general and not any one (unlucky) individual, Ver said no one offered to bet against him.
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