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We’re just finishing up Crypto Week over at The Dollar Vigilante, and like I said in my previous video, I got a little sidetracked over the last couple of years, talking about globalist agenda traps, the apocalypse, and how none of the system is real. 

And you know what? While those bigger geopolitical fires are critical to talk about, it's time to get back to what we do best… protecting and growing your wealth when the rest of the world is completely blind to what’s coming.

We are heading into some absolute dynamite times at both The Dollar Vigilante (TDV) and The Crypto Vigilante (TCV). We are bracing for massive stock market crashes, gold and silver are preparing for another major leg up, and mining stocks are primed to skyrocket.

More importantly, we are likely in the final stages of the crypto bear market. The last few grinding months are where the final bottom gets put in… and timing that exact bottom is what we specialize in at TCV.

To wrap up Crypto Week, I sat down with two of our core minds at TCV… Rafael LaVerde and Mr. X.

Meeting the Shadows: Mining Bitcoin Under $1

Earlier this week, we had our crypto market technicians (Mr. A and Mr. W) on the channel breaking down market cycles. But Rafael and Mr. X are the pure fundamental analysts of our team. Raf rarely even looks at price charts; he cares about the technology, privacy, and how these tools can literally free humanity from the digital prison being built around us.

They are also true crypto OGs. I got into Bitcoin around May or June of 2011 when it was trading near $3. Mr. X was mining Bitcoin under $1 in early 2011.

“My background was computer science and security research. I was mining Bitcoin under a dollar before the run-up to $32 on Mt. Gox. Back then, there was no TradingView, we had to build custom charting tools just to stream live order books. When the trendline broke, I sold near $28–$30, quadrupled my stash buying back at the $1 bottom, and kept building.” — Mr. X

There aren't many OGs from that 2010–2011 era left actively publishing. Hal Finney passed away. Ross Ulbricht was locked up for a decade (thankfully he's finally out). Roger Ver has been jammed up in legal nightmare after legal nightmare. John McAfee is gone.

When we look at “Crypto Twitter” today, our eyes just glaze over. It's full of green-behind-the-ears retail traders giving advice on when to buy and sell. How has that worked out for most people? They get wiped out every cycle. Meanwhile, our core team at TCV have been analyzing this market together on early forums like BitcoinTalk since day one.

How Bitcoin Was Hijacked (And Why Digital Cash Matters)

Rafael Laverde came into Bitcoin in 2012 out of the Mises Circle at UT Austin… a radical group of Austrian economists and libertarians (including the founder of Cointelegraph and early pioneers who pitched crypto holding strategies to Michael Saylor).

“We experienced Bitcoin as actual digital cash living in Austin back in 2012. Downtown merchants were accepting it everywhere. But without a deeply educated user base, these technologies risk being turned into basic Wall Street speculative tools rather than instruments of human liberation.” — Rafael LaVerde

When Rafael and I first talked about starting a dedicated newsletter back around 2017, the Bitcoin Civil War was raging. That's why we named it The Crypto Vigilante instead of The Bitcoin Vigilante.

Wall Street and central planners co-opted the narrative. They convinced the masses that Bitcoin shouldn't be used as fast, cheap, peer-to-peer cash to bypass central banks, but rather as “digital gold” that you just hold forever on an exchange. Holding forever in a custodial account is exactly what centra