LOS ANGELES, California — Roger Ver, a prominent bitcoin investor known as "Bitcoin Jesus," has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department to address federal tax charges. Ver has paid nearly $50 million to the IRS in back taxes, penalties, and interest related to his bitcoin holdings, according to the agreement.

The charges stem from Ver's failure to properly report his bitcoin assets on tax returns following his expatriation from the United States in 2014. The government has moved to dismiss the indictment against him, according to the deferred prosecution agreement. Ver, who began acquiring bitcoins in 2011, renounced his U.S. citizenship in March 2014 after obtaining citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis. This expatriation required him to file specific tax r

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