Dan Held – Peter McCormack

“With Bitcoin, we’re finally free. We’re finally free with our money to do whatever we’d like with it…so if a government becomes onerous, and they start to crack down on transactions or crack down on different types of races, religions, etc., you can take your money and you can leave. And that ability, that freedom, is

“We have a lot of things that make me extremely bullish on Bitcoin… did I wish this to happen on the world? Absolutely not, I wish we didn’t need to have Bitcoin because we could trust, but we can’t.” — Dan Held Dan Held is the Growth Lead at Kraken. In this interview, we discuss the splintering and factionalization of

“Bitcoin hodlers across the world I think only number probably 100-200 million, which is awesome, that’s incredible that we’re in the hundreds of millions era of bitcoin hodlers, but I think the real game begins at a billion, and we’re getting close.” — Dan Held Location: Remotely Date: Wednesday 4th August Company: Kr

“Bitcoin grows more antifragile with these sorts of events... they’re going to lose influence pretty fast, and pretty soon, the market doesn’t care what they have to say.” — Dan Held Location: Chicago Date: Wednesday 26th May Project: Kraken Role: Growth Lead When Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla had "suspended vehicle pur

“The TL;DR of the supercycle theory: what happens when the world wakes up to Bitcoin?” — Dan Held Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 27th April Company: Kraken Role: Growth Lead When Dan Held first wrote about a possible bitcoin supercycle back in 2019, the idea seemed far fetched. The bitcoin price was just under $10,00

“Once people place their trust in storing value in Bitcoin, why would they ever go back to a fiat currency?” — Dan Held Location: Remotely Date: Monday 1st February Company: Kraken Role: Director of Business Development The Gold Standard was a monetary system that linked the value of a country's currency to the amount