Calvin Ayre

From wikipedia:

"A Canadian-Antiguan entrepreneur based in Antigua and Barbuda, and the founder of the Ayre Group and Bodog entertainment brand.

In 2000, Ayre launched online gambling company Bodog, the success of which made him a billionaire. Ayre's notoriety increased in the mid-2000s as online gaming’s popularity surged, landing him on the cover of Forbes magazine's 2006 annual Billionaires edition and Star magazine’s "Most Eligible Billionaire Bachelors” list in late 2007.

Ayre modeled his personal brand after Virgin Group founder Richard Branson. In 2012, Ayre was indicted by the US Attorney for Maryland on charges of illegal gambling and money laundering. In 2017, he pled guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and all other charges against him were dropped. In August 2017, Ayre was appointed as an Economic Envoy for Antigua and Barbuda to advise on developments in cryptocurrency.

In June 2016, Andrew O'Hagan published a writer's account of the background behind Craig Wright publicly asserting himself to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin cryptocurrency, which made the news in May 2016. He revealed Ayre to be part of the business operation behind this affair, possibly even its ultimate organizer and the financial backer of the $30 million acquisition and development of Craig Wright's assets.^[40] In August 2017, Ayre acquired cryptocurrency news site Coingeek.com.^[41]

Ayre is a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporter.^[42] In his interview with Becky Liggero in September 2017, Ayre said he believes that with massive on-chain scaling and the subsequent low transaction fees that will come out of it will drive the crypto-currency movement.^[43] In line with this, Ayre's Coingeek.com has announced hosting the world's first bComm Conference in Hong Kong in May 2018.^[44] In October, Ayre's Media Group and Bitcoin.com's Roger Ver issued a joint press statement stating that Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is the only Blockchain that can do it all.^[45].

In January 2018, Ayre has revealed he has dedicated significant amounts of his investment funds towards creating a Bitcoin Cash mining operation. The entrepreneur explains he’s purchased both hardware and software in order to help build the BCH hashrate. The mining facility will dedicate its hashpower to the Bitcoin Cash blockchain only. ^[46] In July 2018, Ayre's mining operations Coingeek became the world's largest Bitcoin Cash miner surpassing BTC.top ^[47] as verified by community-driven Bitcoin statistics leader Coin Dance ^[48]."

At the Summer meeting in 2018 in Bangkok he sided with Craig Wright for Bitcoin SV.