Is Crypto Unstoppable? [VIDEO]
Canadians have been having a horrible time with their banking system. If only we had some technological solutions for times like these… As we see worldwide, every empire tends to crumble because it can’t stand underneath the weight of its tyranny. While we are witnessing the banking system fail us, remember that it was meant…
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Read MoreWhen Will Monero Moon? XMR Price Analysis [VIDEO]
Mr. W is a crypto OG. An early Bitcoin (BTC) and Monero (XMR) adopter, Mr. W has been a miner and an active cryptocurrency trader since 2013. As a Crypto Market Technician here at The Crypto Vigilante (SUBSCRIBE), Mr. W and our team of analysts provide timely crypto alerts for TCV members. As he also…
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Read MorePaul Puey: What You Need to Know About Crypto Self-Custody [VIDEO]
Edge is currently my favorite wallet that we recommend at The Crypto Vigilante (SUBSCRIBE), especially for beginners. Before Anarchapulco, I had another enlightening discussion with Paul Puey, Founder and CEO of Edge, which allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrency with a high level of security and privacy. The Edge mobile app supports the…
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Read MoreMonero (XMR) Price Report with Mr. W [VIDEO]
At The Crypto Vigilante (SUBSCRIBE), our analyst team is in agreement that the four-year Bitcoin and crypto cycle likely hit its peak in April of last year, meaning we’ve been in a bear market since then. “There was, however, a reflex that was unexpectedly higher in Bitcoin that threw off the cycles of all cryptocurrencies…
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Read MoreBitcoin Tribalism, Privacy Money and The New Internet [VIDEO]
I recently appeared on the Liberty Lockdown podcast with Clint Russell. His show’s audience is libertarian to the core, so we instantly clicked. Right off the bat, Clint asked for my explanation of the Bitcoin civil war over the block size – which started back in 2017 – so I broke it all down into…
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Read MoreWill Peer-to-Peer Sidechains Save Bitcoin? [VIDEO]
What if we could have prevented the infamous Bitcoin civil war? The scaling war beginning in 2017, which led to multiple Bitcoin hard forks, was much more than just a debate between the ideas of small and big blocks. While the BTC version of Bitcoin has won out being the dominant version in the market,…
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Read MoreCan We Really Still Have Freedom Without Privacy? [VIDEO]
They Say Privacy Doesn’t Matter… Until It Does! At The Crypto Vigilante (SUBSCRIBE), we are all very contrarian, and we don’t always agree with each other. While our analysts offer the best trading tips in the space, we don’t generally follow the latest hype trends because we focus more on what matters for long-term growth…
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Read MoreAre We All Being Lied To About Crypto? [VIDEO]
Happy new year! It’s been thirteen years since the bitcoin network launched. Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first bitcoin block on this day in 2009. Since then, the world has changed. So many lies plague the burgeoning crypto space, and those of us who can see the writing on the wall share a duty to warn…
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Read MoreLet There Be Dark: Amir Taaki Introduces DarkFi [VIDEO]
“Crypto will split into two. RegFi will be unusable and bolted down. It will be toothless. The other side will be the underground DarkFi. It will have bite.” I recently had the pleasure of interviewing one of the most influential and intriguing crypto developers globally. Known for his leading role in the early days of…
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Read MoreSolving the Problem of Financial Censorship with Crypto [VIDEO]
Over the last few years, most of my research has revolved around blockchain entrepreneurship. I always come back to Bitcoin’s original design because I believe it’s the best protocol for building startups and businesses on-chain, at scale. Perhaps more than money, Satoshi’s most killer app is the decentralized network serving as a backend engine to…
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Read MoreIntroducing DERO – The Future of Private Smart Contracts [VIDEO]
There’s no shortage of problems with ETH, but the lack of privacy is the primary concern with Ethereum, along with its slew of competitors. They’re essentially systems for “dumb contracts,” not smart contracts. Who wants to get subjected to financial voyeurism? Censorship resistance requires privacy by default, especially for DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). Of course,…
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Read MoreWhere Does Bitcoin’s Value and Utility Come From? [VIDEO]
What is the actual value of Bitcoin and this technology called blockchain? CoinGeek invited me to New York City to be a panelist at their recent conference, alongside George Gilder, Dr. Craig S. Wright, and Dr. Eswar Prasad. I refused to attend in person due to New York’s authoritarian mask and \/@x passport policies. However,…
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Read MoreBlockchain Entrepreneurship: What’s Next for Disruptive Tech? [VIDEO]
Gratitude is the most empowering attitude for fostering success. No matter what you’re going through, I encourage you to take a few minutes each day to meditate on what you are grateful for. One personal highlight of this year was when I had the pleasure of participating in a FreedomFest panel with some great minds;…
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Read MoreIs Everyone Ignoring the Trial of the Century? [VIDEO]
Is news being suppressed about the Bitcoin trial taking place in Miami right now? For a potential $70 billion court case, is the ongoing Kleiman v. Wright saga being underreported? Or should it be ignored? Why are some people saying there is a media blackout of this enormous event in crypto history? As I have…
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Read MoreHow To Thrive With Cryptocurrency During The Dollar Collapse [VIDEO]
When it comes to any crypto asset or technology, if it’s not private-by-default at the protocol level, it’s not private at all. Here is my meta-analysis of Bitcoin’s history. The Bitcoin revolution was divided into four camps. The first group was honest in its assessment that Bitcoin would never be private-by-default at the protocol level.…
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Read MoreWhat's The Next Big Thing In Crypto? [VIDEO]
It’s been quite an active few weeks here at The Crypto Vigilante, but the truth is, crypto is just getting started. I recently participated in a Bitcoin and Blockchain discussion panel with George Gilder, Dr. Craig S. Wright, and Dr. Eswar Prasad. It was a lively exchange on how value comes from real utility. Video coming…
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Read MoreHow Mesh Networks Can Power a New Internet Off The Grid [VIDEO]
During 2018 in Venezuela, there were power blackouts throughout the country, leaving cities without power for weeks. Even cell towers ran out of power supply after a few days. Despite some people charging their phones with generators or car batteries, there wasn’t any cell service for them to communicate with others: no calls, no SMS,…
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Read MoreDoes Crypto Enable Privacy or Transparency? Why Not Both? [VIDEO]
These days it can seem like everyone is living in hiding. People hide their faces, their identities, and their assets, obscuring everything. It’s almost like a new dark age. Indeed, we cannot have light without darkness, and perhaps it’s the same with cryptography. For those of us who embrace our fundamental human right to privacy,…
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Read MoreDebate: Will The Real Bitcoin Please Stand Up? [VIDEO]
It has been fifty years since the launch of the fiat money experiment known as the US dollar. On August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon took the dollar off of the gold standard. Essentially, the “US dollar became fake money ripping off workers, and savers became losers,” as Robert Kiyosaki explained on Twitter. The author of…
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Read MoreHow To Be Sure When The Price Is Wrong [VIDEO]
The price is not always right. In 2018, Dr. Daniel Kim (Ph.D. physics Harvard, MBA Yale) decided to meet the need for a bridge between the separate worlds of “new money” (non-commercial, open-source, grass-roots, cypherpunk crypto projects), and the incumbent “old money” industry of sophisticated trust and estate planning, structural asset protection, and legacy wealth…
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Read MoreWhat is the best way to join Bitcoin apps? [VIDEO]
After the Bitcoin civil war of 2017, BCH immediately sprang up, followed by BSV, to continue the tradition of building on the Bitcoin blockchain as opposed to the limited store-of-value or “digital gold” mindset of mainstream Bitcoin. When we started The Crypto Vigilante (SUBSCRIBE), Jeff Berwick and Ed Bugos tasked me with building a team…
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