THE DOLLAR VIGILANTE BLOG

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

The recent reports of a number of gunmen murdering some cartoonists/journalists in France has been front and center in mainstream media this week.  Here, at TDV, however, we are stoic, never over-react emotionally to events and always filter through information before we comment on them.

[The following post is by TDV Contributor, Wendy McElroy]

Roger Ver is a virtual currency millionaire who has been dubbed the Bitcoin Jesus because of his avid advocacy of the blockchain money, which includes his seeding many businesses that use it. Last year, the libertarian-anarchist became a citizen of the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis and renounced his American citizenship. Ver may be a bellwether of how the US plans to treat those who renounce their citizenship or who are otherwise inconvenient expats. 

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

In the early morning on January 5th, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges, Bitstamp, stated, "We have reason to believe that one of Bitstamp’s operational wallets was compromised on January 4th, 2015.  As a security precaution against compromises Bitstamp only maintains a small fraction of customer bitcoins in online systems. Bitstamp maintains more than enough offline reserves to cover the compromised bitcoins."

Jeff interviews radio personality Mark Edge of Free Talk Live, topics include: Voluntarism, dealing with statist's questions, examples of anarchic systems, the royal family, Free Talk Live, big radio, pro Liberty radio vs Rush Limbaugh, Acapulco, Anarchapulco, the Free State Project, US dollar collapse, increasing citizen controls, growing police state, TSA, how the internet has changed everything, freedom in Mexico, internationalization and the permanent traveler/prior taxpayer (PT) lifestyle.

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

This past weekend a grown, 30 year old man shot his father over unhappiness with his allowance according to reports in Associated Press as reported at ZeroHedge.

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

As we enter into the final stages of The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI) gold is playing its role very well.

Due to gold hitting an all-time high of $1,921.50 on September 6th, 2011 and now currently trading near $1,200 there has been a lot of negativity about gold.  If you watch mainstream media in the US (which no one does anymore… CNBC just hit all-time record low ratings at the end of 2014) you get the impression that gold is not only dead but going much lower.

However, in every other currency, other than the US dollar, gold advanced in 2014.

Jeff Berwick, in Anarchapulco interviews libertarian songbird Tatiana Moroz from the beach in Sydney, Australia. Topics include: Ron Paul, the liberty movement, bitcoin brings new hope, Bitcoin Magazine, Coinjar, Airbitz, Tatianacoin, the first artist crypto, Anarchapulco, incorporating Liberty into your life, Luke Rudkowski, torture report, the war on drugs, alcohol beingthe worst drug, bitcoin scammers, reputation systems and Tatiana's upcoming album!

Originally appeared at Bitcoinomics.Net

Roger Ver is among the best known bitcoiners, with investments in core bitcoin startups such as, BitPay, Ripple, Blockchain and others. Roger has tirelessly championed the financial and technological uses for Bitcoin and their applications to modern life. Part entrepreneur, part philosopher Roger can be seen globetrotting to various Bitcoin conferences and gatherings. He has served as full time CEO of MemoryDealers.com. Having discovered Bitcoin in early 2011, Roger became convinced it was “the most important invention in the history of the world since the internet.”

Jeff interviews Bitcoin 2.0 evangelist Juan Galt, topics include: Stephan Moleneux on Somalia, freedom in Mexico, capital controls, Bitcoin 2.0 multi-tool Supernet, MaidSafe, multi-gateway, decentralized storage, lack of anonymity on the blockchain, BitcoinDark network, rising hope, investment crowdfunding, ownership stake, Open Bazaar, Anarchapulco.

Happy New Year from Anarchapulco!

Here was my view last evening as I watched a completely anarchic fireworks display occur.  With absolutely no government involvement private individuals and businesses set off fireworks and shots were fired into the air in complete spontaneous order (captured below in 1080P with a Samsung Galaxy S5 – just click on 'settings' on the bottom YouTube bar to upgrade it to 1080P).  Midnight was struck at the 0:42 second mark of the video.

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

Showing that even the police are incredibly brainwashed by TV programming that always shows them as needed heroes the New York police may have made a career-threatening mistake by effectively going on strike this month.

The 34,500 uniformed members of the NYPD, which Mayor Bloomberg once called the world's seventh largest army, had two of their members shot this month and in protest they decided to stop harassing people for awhile.

[The following post is written by Director of TDV Offshore, Paul Seymour]

It’s been a while since the whole FATCA charade has annoyed me enough to spend more time writing about it, but recently, a series of events have finally caused me to return to this sordid subject.  

Jeff Interviews Skinner Layne of Exosphere, topics include: entrepreneurship, weaning yourself off the monthly wage, not always easy, business as a living breathing entity, Exobase, self examination, 8 week residency camp, expatriation, student loan dilemma, life experience more valuable than education, forget about college that ship is going down!

[The following post is by TDV Contributor, Wendy McElroy]

Ignorance of the law is an excuse…if you are a cop. American police no longer need to know what the law says or to enforce it correctly. They can implement a non-existent law with impunity even if it results in the apparent violation of constitutional rights. This may have been apparent to many as a police practice but now it is now officially the law of the land. On December 15, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled on Heien v. North Carolina. 

Facts of the Case

Jeff is interviewed by Nathan Fraser for Live Free FM, topics include: Henry David Thoreau, Lysander Spooner, the social contract is not consent, government an unnecessary evil, Doug Casey, Jeff's awakening to Anarchism, Anarchast, Kanada and socialism, public school indoctrination camps, the battle for mindshare ramping up, Acapulco, Anarchapulco, the Anarchist mentality, US war on drugs the biggest problem in Mexico but it is ending, great entrepreneurship opportunities in Mexico, the benefits of unregulated alcohol. Re-Think, Re-Invent All the Things!

Originally appeared on Bitcoinomics.Net

TDV Contributor Justin O'Connell (GoldSilverBitcoin, Bitcoinomics, Our Very Own Special Show) had the opportunity to sit down with the Mycelium project, which was started with the goal of creating an independent, self-powered, ad-hoc network and infrastructure which could form wherever enough nodes came together. Having been before the days of bitcoin, the main purpose of this network was text messaging between active and present nodes within a radius of 300 meters.

Did you miss what happened in 2014 in the markets?  If so, you can get caught up in one Christmas Carol here.

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the casa,

Pinatas were hung from the bamboo terraza,

Talk of Santa and Jesus swirled by the tree,

But being a vigilante I had to be me,

I pointed out that nothing of Christmas has anything to do with Christ,

It has more to do with the worship of Saturn, and other pagan delights,

One after another,

Friends and family arrove,

Even one named Angel,

Quite perfect, I supposed,

I told them too of whence came these ideas,

They nodded back and offered a Christmas tequila,

As the night carried on and drinks and food were enjoyed,

We came to realize that most everything is noise,

What really matters is that we were together,

[The following post is by our TDV Contributor Joe Johnson]

I appreciated Jeff's recent succinct and thought provoking post. Prince Ea hits the nail on the head in his video (profanity warning).

[The following post is by Scott Freeman]

Is the Devaluation of the Ruble a Disaster?

Check out TDV's Invitation to Jeff's secret appearance in Cancun.