Dan Held is the Director of Business Development for all products of Kraken. Kraken is one of the worlds biggest and well known cryptocurrency exchanges. Before that he co-founded and developed products like ZeroBlock and Interchange, that were aquired later on. In between he served in the rider growth team at Uber. He lives and works in Silicon Valley. We met at the Baltic Honeybadger Conference in Riga and discussed topics like the bitcoin distribution, what he finds surprising about Satoshi Nakamotos ideas, a possible bitcoin supercycle that’s in the making and much more. We discuss: Interchange, a tool for Crypto hedge funds ZeroBlock App His learnings at Uber HODLing vs. Spending Half a billion or a billion users is needed for stabilizing bitcoins price (est. 20 – 40 Million users now) The halvening Onboarding a billion users Libra might help differentiate bitcoins value proposition Governments can try to forbid bitcoin Why the bitcoin distribution is fair #RunForHalfin @VitusZe @RusselOkung What surprised him about Satoshis writings “I was born to hodl with a name like Held.” – Dan Held “I think there might be a bitcoin supercycle coming up.” – Dan Held “People come for the trading and stay for the sound money.” – Dan Held “Silicon Valley fundamentally doesn’t understand bitcoin.” – Dan Held Sponsors Buy or Sell Bitcoin LocalBitcoins.com Order the Card Wallet now and get 20% off! Get 5% off for a BitBox02 with code: anita Get 3 months for free now! More about Salamantex Support the podcast Share the podcast with friends and family! Subscribe to my newsletter Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | YouTube | Pocket Casts | Castbox | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Feed Give a 5 stars recommendation on Apple Podcast Follow me on Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn Donations Do you like what you hear? If yes, then please support my podcast. Every donation is used to produce episodes, finance travel costs and make the show better. Every donor, will be invited to my exclusive Telegram group with personal background stories and updates. Send me a short message with your Telegram ID after donating and I will add you. Donate with PayPal Donate with BTC Donate with Lightning Der Beitrag Dan Held: Silicon Valley Fundamentally Doesn’t Understand Bitcoin erschien zuerst auf The Anita Posch Show. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to (L)earn Bitcoin - it’s free: https://anita.link/weekly