Bitcoin.com
Bitcoin.com is a cryptocurrency services company founded by early bitcoin investor Roger Ver, best known for its self-custodial wallet, its crypto newsroom, and the VERSE token. Its history runs through a 2015 domain fight with OKCoin, a 2016 mining pool, and its founder's U.S. tax case.
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- Country
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Founded
- Roger Ver took control of the bitcoin.com domain in April 2014; the company says it has operated since 2015
- Founder
- Roger Ver, the early bitcoin investor known as 'Bitcoin Jesus'
- Operating company
- Saint Bitts LLC (listed as seller of the Bitcoin.com Wallet app)stated by the subject
- Headquarters
- Saint Kitts and Nevis; operational bases in Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai and Warsawstated by the subject
- Flagship product
- Bitcoin.com Wallet — self-custodial wallet, on Google Play since June 2017stated by the subject
- Newsroom
- Bitcoin.com News — crypto newsroom the company says is read by around a million people a monthstated by the subject
- Token
- VERSE (ERC-20), 210 billion fixed supply; a $33.6 million private round and a $50 million pre-sale in 2022
Overview
Bitcoin.com is a Saint Kitts and Nevis–based cryptocurrency services company founded by early bitcoin investor Roger Ver, the figure known as “Bitcoin Jesus,” who took control of the bitcoin.com domain in April 2014 (CoinDesk). It is best known for its self-custodial Bitcoin.com Wallet and its crypto newsroom, and it later expanded into mining, a centralized exchange, and the VERSE ecosystem token (Bitcoin.com). The operating company behind the site is Saint Bitts LLC, which is listed as the seller of the wallet app on the Apple App Store (Apple).
The company has lived at the center of crypto’s loudest fights. Ver first leased the domain to the wallet service Blockchain.info and then to the exchange OKCoin, which was to manage the site for five years and pay him at least $10,000 a month (CoinDesk). When OKCoin stopped paying, Ver accused the exchange of forging a doctored version of their contract — a dispute that ended up in Hong Kong court filings and remains the clearest window into who actually owns one of crypto’s most valuable domains (CoinDesk).
Business lines: wallet, news, exchange, VERSE
The Bitcoin.com Wallet is the company’s flagship — a self-custodial mobile wallet for buying, selling, swapping and holding crypto “across every major chain,” with the user holding the private keys (Bitcoin.com). Independent app data shows the wallet listed on Google Play since June 2017, with more than 15 million installs and a 4.7-star rating (AppBrain). Bitcoin.com News operates as one of the largest crypto newsrooms by the company’s account, which claims roughly a million monthly readers and says the desk is editorially independent from the company’s commercial products (Bitcoin.com).
The company tried centralized exchange services too: the Bitcoin.com Exchange launched in early September 2019 (Bitcoin.com News). Its biggest fundraising came through the VERSE ecosystem token — an ERC-20 utility token with a fixed 210 billion supply — whose private Sale A raised $33.6 million in 2022 from investors including Blockchain.com, KuCoin, Digital Strategies, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu and David Wachsman (crypto.news). A further $50 million pre-sale completed that December, and VERSE began trading on the company’s Verse DEX on December 8, 2022 at $0.0015 per token (Bitcoin.com; ChainCatcher). By October 2026 the product lineup had narrowed to the Wallet, News, OrangeRock (onchain perpetuals trading built on Hyperliquid) and Checkout (merchant crypto payments), with team bases in Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai and Warsaw and an ISO 27001 certification (Bitcoin.com).
The domain’s custody wars
The bitcoin.com domain has been contested property almost from the moment Ver acquired it. Brave New Coin reported in May 2015 that Ver’s ownership was only “unveiled” when his dispute with OKCoin went public — until then, the domain’s owner had never been known (Brave New Coin). The five-year management deal signed in December 2014 called for OKCoin to redesign the site and share revenue with a $10,000 monthly floor, but the exchange later declared the contract invalid — arguing it never named OKCoin’s actual legal entity and pointing to a FinCEN action against Ripple Labs that had referenced Ver as reason to cut the business relationship (CoinDesk).
Ver’s response was cryptographic: he said OKCoin had produced a doctored “v8” of the contract by scanning his signature from the “v7” he had PGP-signed, and an independent security consultant’s analysis supported the forgery claim (CoinDesk). Ver’s team put the deal’s value at $550,000 over its term and offered to settle for $200,000; Ver later sued OKCoin’s Hong Kong entity over the terminated contract (CoinDesk; CCN). The domain drama flared again in April 2021, when GoDaddy briefly listed bitcoin.com as “available” for $100 million; Ver demanded its removal on social media, called the listing fake news spread by Bitcoin maximalists to hurt Bitcoin Cash, and GoDaddy took it down without explanation (Crypto Briefing).
The newsroom and the “American Sell-Out” report
Bitcoin.com’s news desk sits unusually close to crypto’s political fault lines — in September 2025 it was among the outlets to cover the Accountable.US report “American Sell-Out,” which accused the Trump-family-linked World Liberty Financial of selling hundreds of thousands of $WLFI tokens to sanctioned-linked entities (Bitcoin.com News). The report’s claims, as summarized by cryptonews.net, included a 600,000-$WLFI purchase by the trader Shryder.eth on Inauguration Day, roughly 3,500 $WLFI sold to a trader using Iran’s Nobitex exchange, more than 10,000 $WLFI sold to a user of the Russian ruble-backed A7A5 sanctions-evasion token, and token sales to 62 users who had previously used the mixer Tornado Cash (cryptonews.net).
The stat that gives the story its shape is the follow-through the report itself acknowledged: after the token sales ended, World Liberty blocked 272 wallets, with five of them blacklisted for high-risk exposure (cryptonews.net) — the same 272-wallet figure that had driven the early-September controversy around Justin Sun’s frozen tokens. But the report’s blockchain analysis did not go unchallenged: security researcher Nick Bax disputed its Lazarus Group link, writing that a user’s roughly $95,000 in $WLFI had been frozen because of a false positive (Standing Record). Bitcoin.com News kept following the thread, later covering the November 2025 letter from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed pressing the DOJ and Treasury to investigate the platform (Bitcoin.com News).
Bitcoin.com products at a glance
| Product | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin.com Wallet | Self-custodial mobile wallet (buy, sell, swap, hold); user keeps the keys | Live; on Google Play since June 2017 |
| Bitcoin.com News | Crypto newsroom; company claims ~1M monthly readers and editorial independence | Live |
| Verse DEX | Decentralized exchange for VERSE trading | Launched December 2022 |
| OrangeRock | Onchain perpetuals trading, built on Hyperliquid | Live (current lineup) |
| Bitcoin.com Checkout | Merchant crypto payments, online and point-of-sale | Live (current lineup) |
| Bitcoin.com Exchange | Centralized spot exchange | Launched September 2019; absent from current lineup |
| Bitcoin.com mining pool | BTC/BCH mining pool; backed Bitcoin Unlimited and bigger blocks, ~1% global hashrate in late 2016 | Launched September 2016; absent from current lineup |
Frequently asked questions
Is Bitcoin.com the same thing as Bitcoin? No. Bitcoin is an open protocol that nobody owns; Bitcoin.com is a private company that builds apps for using it — a distinction the company itself makes on its about page (Bitcoin.com). It is also distinct from Bitcoin Cash, the network Roger Ver championed, though the company’s early branding blurred that line and drew criticism.
Who owns Bitcoin.com? The domain was acquired by early bitcoin investor Roger Ver in April 2014, and his ownership became public during the 2015 OKCoin dispute (CoinDesk). The operating company is listed as Saint Bitts LLC, headquartered in Saint Kitts and Nevis according to secondary sources, though the precise legal relationship between Ver and the entity is not in the public record.
What happened in Roger Ver’s tax case? The DOJ indicted Ver in April 2024, alleging he evaded exit tax on about 131,000 bitcoins when renouncing U.S. citizenship in 2014 and hid $240 million in 2017 sales; he was arrested in Spain (CoinDesk). In October 2026 Reuters reported a deferred-prosecution agreement under which Ver pays up to $49.9 million and the charges are dropped (PANews).
What is the VERSE token? VERSE is Bitcoin.com’s ERC-20 rewards and utility token, with a fixed supply of 210 billion, meant to reward buying, selling, storing and learning within the ecosystem (crypto.news). Its 2022 sales raised $33.6 million privately and $50 million in a pre-sale, and it began trading on the Verse DEX on December 8, 2022 (ChainCatcher).
Did Bitcoin.com report on World Liberty Financial’s token sales? Yes — its news desk covered the September 2025 Accountable.US “American Sell-Out” report alleging $WLFI sales to sanctioned-linked entities, and later the Warren/Reed probe letter (Bitcoin.com News). As with all such coverage, the underlying allegations remain contested: a security researcher publicly challenged the report’s North Korea-link analysis (Standing Record).
What this profile does not claim
This profile does not claim to know the current legal ownership structure of Saint Bitts LLC or its exact relationship to Roger Ver — no corporate registry record was reviewed, so the Saint Kitts and Nevis domicile rests on secondary sources and app-store data. It does not assert closure dates for the mining pool or the 2019 exchange, which could not be verified and are absent from the current lineup. It does not repeat the unverified claim of a 2018 minority-stake sale, nor does it confirm the reported November 2017 Hong Kong court judgment against OKCoin. It does not endorse Bitcoin.com’s self-reported user and reader counts as audited figures, and it does not assess VERSE, $WLFI or any other token as an investment. The “American Sell-Out” allegations are reported as claims — including the published challenge to the report’s blockchain analysis — not as established facts.
Timeline
- 2014
- Roger Ver gains control of the bitcoin.com domain in April. He leases it first to Blockchain.info and later to OKCoin, which agrees to manage the site for five years and pay him a revenue share with a $10,000 monthly minimum.
- 2015
- Ver is publicly revealed as the domain's owner when his dispute with OKCoin breaks open. OKCoin stops payments, calls the contract invalid, and cites a FinCEN action against Ripple Labs that referenced Ver; Ver accuses OKCoin of forging a version of the contract.
- 2016
- The Bitcoin.com mining pool is announced on September 21, founded by Ver and running the Bitcoin Unlimited client to push for bigger blocks. By early October it holds nearly 1% of global Bitcoin hashrate, paying miners about 6% more than rival pools.
- 2017
- The Bitcoin.com Wallet mobile app is published; independent app data shows it on Google Play since June 2017. The wallet is presented as self-custodial — users hold their own keys.
- 2019
- The Bitcoin.com Exchange launches in early September, expanding the company from wallet and news into centralized spot trading.
- 2021
- GoDaddy briefly lists bitcoin.com as "available" for $100 million in April. Ver demands the removal on social media and calls it fake news aimed at Bitcoin Cash; GoDaddy takes the listing down without explanation.
- 2022
- Bitcoin.com raises $33.6 million in the private Sale A of its VERSE utility token from investors including Blockchain.com, KuCoin, Digital Strategies, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu and David Wachsman. A $50 million pre-sale completes in December and VERSE trading launches on the Verse DEX on December 8.
- 2024
- The U.S. Department of Justice indicts Roger Ver on April 30 for tax fraud — accusing him of evading exit tax on about 131,000 bitcoins after renouncing U.S. citizenship in 2014 and of hiding $240 million in 2017 sales. Ver is arrested in Spain; Bitcoin.com says the case pertains solely to Ver and does not affect operations.
- 2025
- Bitcoin.com rebrands to reaffirm its commitment to Bitcoin, self-custody and financial sovereignty, with Corbin Fraser named as CEO. In September, Bitcoin.com News covers the Accountable.US "American Sell-Out" report alleging World Liberty Financial token sales to sanctioned-linked entities.
- 2026
- Reuters reports in October that the DOJ has reached a deferred-prosecution agreement with Ver: the fraud and tax-evasion charges will be dropped in exchange for up to $49.9 million in taxes, penalties and interest.
What we could not verify
These claims came up in research and could not be confirmed. They are recorded here rather than published as fact or quietly dropped. If you hold a source that settles one, please tell us.
- The precise legal domicile of Saint Bitts LLC and its exact ownership relationship to Roger Ver could not be confirmed from registry records; secondary sources and App Store seller data are the basis used here.
- A 2018 minority-stake sale to a private investment firm is claimed by a single tier-3 source and is not independently confirmed.
- No verified closure date was found for the Bitcoin.com mining pool or the 2019 centralized exchange; neither appears in the October 2026 product lineup.
- The reported November 2017 Hong Kong court judgment awarding Ver $570,000 against OKCoin could not be independently verified; only the suit and the claimed amounts are confirmed here.
- Dennis Jarvis's appointment as CEO in May 2020 is cited via Wikipedia's reference to The National and was not independently verified; his CEO tenure in 2021–2022 is confirmed via company announcements.
- Details of the October 2026 deferred-prosecution agreement come from Reuters as reported by secondary outlets; no court filing was reviewed personally.
- Wallet user counts and news-reader figures ("millions of people", "30–35 million wallets", "around a million monthly readers") are first-party marketing claims, not independently audited.
- crypto.news describes the first VERSE round as "conducted in April" and its table as "completed in May 2022"; phrased here as completed May 2022.
Sources
20 sources (6 tier 2, 9 tier 3, 5 first-party), each opened and read against the claim it supports. Statements the subject makes about itself are marked as such and are not treated as independent evidence. See the source policy.
Wikipedia's Bitcoin.com article was used only as a lead index for citation candidates — never as a source; every fact it suggested was re-verified through an independently fetched source before being asserted. The load-bearing historical and token-sale claims rest on tier-2 specialist outlets (CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, crypto.news, ChainCatcher). First-party company pages are used only for uncontested product facts and marketing claims are attributed as such. A 2018 U.S. court filing's statements about Saint Bitts LLC were treated as a plaintiff's allegation, not a finding, and are reflected in the open items rather than asserted as fact.
- Supports: Ver's control of the domain and the December 2014 five-year management deal with OKCoin ($10,000/month minimum); the 2015 payment stoppage, the contract-invalidity and FinCEN/Ripple justifications; the alleged forgery of the contract's "v8"; Ver's $550,000 damages claim and $200,000 settlement willingness. Open original source
- Supports: The mining pool's September 21, 2016 announcement, its ~1% global hashrate milestone, the 6% miner premium, and its Bitcoin Unlimited / bigger-blocks stance. Open original source
- Supports: The pool opening to the public in March 2017 and its role as Ver's vehicle for the Bitcoin Unlimited scaling position. Open original source
- Supports: VERSE's 210 billion fixed supply; Sale A raising $33.6 million from Blockchain.com, KuCoin, Digital Strategies, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu and David Wachsman; Dennis Jarvis identified as Bitcoin.com CEO. Open original source
- Supports: Independent corroboration of the $50 million VERSE pre-sale completion and the strategic buyers involved. Open original source
- Supports: The April 2024 DOJ indictment; Ver's arrest in Spain and the extradition request; the exit-tax allegations, the 131,000-bitcoin figure, and the alleged $240 million in concealed 2017 sales via MemoryDealers and Agilestar. Open original source
- Supports: Corroboration that Ver was unveiled as the domain owner through the OKCoin dispute; the domain's prior operation by Blockchain.info. Open original source
- Supports: The pool throwing its hash power behind Bitcoin Cash ABC in the November 2018 fork. Open original source
- Supports: Bitcoin.com's own statement — the case pertains solely to Ver, does not affect operations, and the company's identification of Ver as its founder. Open original source
- Supports: The October 2026 DOJ deferred-prosecution agreement with Ver — up to $49.9 million in taxes, penalties and interest in exchange for dismissal of the indictment. Open original source
- Supports: The Accountable.US report's claims as summarized — Shryder.eth's 600,000 $WLFI inauguration-day purchase, ~3,500 $WLFI to a trader using Iran's Nobitex, 10,000+ $WLFI to a user of the Russian ruble-backed A7A5 token, 62 Tornado Cash-linked buyers — and the report's acknowledgment that World Liberty later blocked 272 wallets. Open original source
- Supports: The April 2021 GoDaddy listing of bitcoin.com at $100 million, Ver's demand for removal, his "fake news" / Bitcoin-maximalist framing, and the listing's removal without explanation. Open original source
- Supports: The wallet app's presence on Google Play since June 2017, its 15M+ installs and 4.7-star rating (independent app data). Open original source
- Supports: Saint Bitts LLC as the listed seller of the Bitcoin.com Wallet app — the only verified corporate-entity name for the operating company. Open original source
- Supports: Secondary corroboration that the company is owned by Saint Bitts LLC and headquartered in Saint Kitts and Nevis. Open original source
- Supports: Completion of the VERSE pre-sale — 16% of supply for $50 million; trading launch on the Verse DEX on December 8, 2022 at $0.0015; the ecosystem's 35 million wallets and 2.5 million monthly news readers (company figures). Open original source
- Bitcoin.com Rebrands to Reaffirm Commitment to Bitcoin, Self-Custody, and Financial Sovereignty First-partySupports: The 2025 rebrand and mission statement; Corbin Fraser identified as CEO. Open original source
- Supports: The Bitcoin.com Exchange's launch in early September 2019. Open original source
- World Liberty Financial Archives — Bitcoin News First-partySupports: Direct evidence that Bitcoin.com's news desk published the September 20, 2025 "American Sell-Out" coverage of World Liberty Financial and later covered the November 2025 Warren/Reed probe letter. Open original source
- About Us | Bitcoin.com First-partySupports: The current product lineup (Wallet, News, OrangeRock, Checkout), the "around a million" monthly news readers and editorial-independence claim, the self-custodial framing, the Tokyo/Singapore/Dubai/Warsaw bases, and ISO 27001 certification. Open original source
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