Crypto Heavyweight ’Bitcoin Jesus’ Drops $600K on Trump Insider Roger Stone to Kill Exit Tax
Roger Stone—political operative and notorious Trump ally—just got a six-figure payday from crypto evangelist Roger Ver. The mission? Lobby against capital gains taxes for crypto expats.
Dubbed ’Bitcoin Jesus’ for early evangelism, Ver’s play exposes the messy intersection of crypto and D.C. influence peddling. Stone’s Rolodex remains his most valuable NFT.
Funny how anti-establishment rebels always hire Beltway fixers when the taxman cometh.
Crypto clemency: who’s in, who’s lobbying
Trump’s second term has already seen a cascade of pardons for crypto-linked figures. In January, he granted a full, unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder serving two life sentences plus 40 years.
The U.S. President called the sentence “ridiculous” and said Ulbricht was a victim of the same “lunatics” targeting him.
In March, Trump pardoned BitMEX co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed, who had pleaded guilty in 2022 to violating the Bank Secrecy Act.
Now, other crypto personalities are circling. Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed FTX exchange and currently serving a 25-year sentence for defrauding customers, has pivoted politically.
In February, he expressed admiration for Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, criticized the Biden administration’s “inefficiency,” and hinted at ongoing talks with Republican operatives.
“I’ve been working with Republicans a lot more than had been previously thought,” SBF told The New York Sun.
For his part, Ver may struggle to secure a pardon from the Oval Office. In January, Trump ally Elon Musk argued that by renouncing his U.S. citizenship, Ver had lost his right to a pardon, tweeting that, “Membership has its privileges.”
