Posts by Rafael LaVerde
Debate: 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…
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…
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…
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…
Read MoreIs this Bull Market over? Interview with Mr. A of The Crypto Vigilante
“The market takes away from the impatient and gives to the patient.” Jeff Berwick and I designed The Crypto Vigilante (SUBSCRIBE) to be the world’s best team of cryptocurrency experts. As you may know, Mr. W, our Crypto Market Technician, is excellent with the charts. I’ve asked Mr. W to choose from anyone in the…
Read MoreHow You Can Avoid Getting REKT As a Crypto Newbie [VIDEO]
I was having a conversation with Jeff Berwick the other day. He told me something fundamental. He said investors get rekt when they have no knowledge or conviction… This is 100% true! The only way to attain knowledge and conviction is by reading, studying, and coming to your own conclusions. This requires work, discipline, independent…
Read MorePiece of Cake: How To Gain Your Privacy Back [VIDEO]
So many people do not understand this yet, but Monero (XMR) is the leading cryptocurrency focused on private and censorship-resistant transactions. The majority of existing cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, have transparent blockchains. As a result, transactions can be verified and traced by anyone in the world. The sending and receiving addresses of these transactions…
Read MoreThe Surprising Journey of One Compassionate Entrepreneur [VIDEO]
The story of how my friend Sterlin Lujan got into crypto is genuinely inspiring. It all started when he was kidnapped and caged by agents of the State. In case you missed it, I had the chance to interview Sterlin Lujan recently while he was in Acapulco. We had a great discussion about crypto, liberty,…
Read MoreIs Entrepreneurship What Matters Most in Crypto? [VIDEO]
Passive investing is cool, but have you ever felt more enthusiastic about new crypto startups and blockchain businesses than your own portfolio’s gains or losses? I’ve been thinking about this since long before the recent dip. Many people have become accustomed to thinking in terms of tribalism and politics. Crypto is not about your party…
Read MoreHide Your Keys: How To Make Your Own Metal Crypto Seed Backups [VIDEO]
Whether you’re in a bullish cycle or a bear market, once you’ve acquired a sizable amount of cryptocurrency, you likely understand the rule, “not your keys, not your coins.” Then the importance of securely storing your private keys manifests itself. There are so many ideas on how to safely store your private keys these days…
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