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Saturday, May 3, 2025

‘Fire and Brimstone’ Bitcoin Maxis Are Being Unrealistic: Dan Held - Decrypt

Prominent crypto influencer Dan Held believes Bitcoin devotees could benefit from being more open-minded and less dismissive of others’ choice of cryptocurrency.
Held, a marketing advisor for Trust Machines and former head of growth and marketing at crypto exchange Kraken, refers to himself as a longtime Bitcoiner but no longer as a “maximalist”—someone who believes that Bitcoin is the only digital asset worth investing in.
Having been engaged in the crypto community since 2013, Held says he remembers a time when the culture around Bitcoin was oriented around radical freedom and associated with events such as Burning Man, which is founded on principles of self-reliance and self-expression.
On the latest episode of Decrypt’s gm podcast, Held said he’s since seen a divergence among Bitcoin’s advocates into two distinct sides.
Dan Held is an old-school Bitcoiner who has been in the space since the very beginning; he sold his price app ZeroBlock to Blockchain.info in 2013. But while...



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