He's Mr Bitcoin for most people, still has lots of influence over the fans of the original coin. Google him, here's a tweet : "I'll do my best to use http://Bitcoin.com to educate the world about how Bitcoin Core is no longer the Bitcoin that was described on the original http://Bitcoin.org website or in the Satoshi White paper. #BitcoinCash is that Bitcoin." Bitcoin.com is not the original bitcoin site, that's bitcoin.org - Roger is a marketer, while the typical bitcoin propagators are mostly coders and nerds, dreamers. I am a marketer (maybe it takes one to know one), he's also a celebrity, which makes it real simple. Marketing is a bit like the military, from the strategic angle. It's important to launch surprise attacks, which is not intuitive to most people who will never realize what hit them. So the answer is NO, of course Roger Ver hasn't even tried - that wouldn't be ethical, and no he couldn't have had so much influence. Everything is coincidence, everything that says it isn't must be a conspiracy theory.