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Blockchain 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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Read MoreMove Money Forward: Is Silicon Valley Afraid of Bitcoin? [VIDEO]
Back in 2017, there was a civil war over how to scale Bitcoin. Now there are the big blockers, those who believe Bitcoin blocks should increase in size to accommodate the capacity of transactions, and small blockers, who say it’s better to optimize the block space they already have. It’s no secret that I’ve always…
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