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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 ---------- More: https://bitcoinundco.com/en/dan-held/ ‎ ---------- Special offers for my listeners from my sponsors: Card Wallet - the safest cold storage solution. No software needed. Order now and get 20% off! (time-limited) https://www.cardwallet.com/anita ---------- and ---------- The BitBox02 hardware wallet. Swiss made, secure and easy to use. Get free shipping with code "anita" now! https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/ ---------- and ---------- Salamantex - Seamless pay with cryptocurrencies https://salamantex.com/customers/ ---------- Follow: Subscribe to Anita's mailing list: https://anitaposch.com/newsletter/ | Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitaposch/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitaposch/ | YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnitaPosch ---------- Send a voice message to Anita: https://www.speakpipe.com/anitaposch ---------- German Podcast: https://bitcoinundco.com/de/ ---------- Donate: 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. PayPal https://paypal.me/AnitaPosch | BTC https://tallyco.in/AnitaPosch/ | Lightning https://tippin.me/@anitaposch