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Dan Held is a Texan who doesn’t drive a truck, drink beer, love Trump, or watch sports. He's a tech enthusiast who isn't into coding. He looks like a typical preppy dude, wearing a white-button-up shirt and carrying a swoop haircut, but he flies drones, tinkers on full nodes, and...

"Who doesn’t love a story of a humble badass who refuses the easy path of corruption, loses everything, and still refuses to give up?"

“How advanced would the United States be if you couldn’t send money from New York to Florida? From New York to California? From Oregon to Washington? It wouldn’t be the United States! It would be a mess of all these squabbling little city-states that can barely get it together.”

"Decentralized technology that creates programmatic consensus to seamlessly fix inefficiencies and increase opportunity? I think it may prove to be unstoppable."

“I loved crypto. I loved the libertarian ideas. At that time, everyone was talking about freedom, about privacy, about the necessity of changing finance, about giving back financial freedom to people. I really believed in that and I still believe in such ideas.”

"I would love to invest into a consumer-facing application that could get blockchain-usage into the mainstream. Initially consumers wouldn't know that blockchain is actually powering the application, thus removing the friction and education necessary."

“If you’d asked people in the late 1800’s what they wanted, they’d have wanted a faster horse and buggy. They didn’t know they wanted a car.”

"It's actually crazy how much this has changed since 2017. Back then, a lot of people discarded Bitcoin as an asset and blockchain as a valuable technology. Some of them have completely changed gears in a couple of years."

“In the future, I think people will use money without even knowing what the underlying technology is. Whether it’s the Bitcoin network, Lightning, Liquid, Litecoin or anything else. In the end, that’s going to be abstracted away from the user. All they care about is sending value.”

"The bridge from old to new money systems used to be a long one, and you couldn’t quite see the other side — we’re closer than ever today."

Cryptocurrency is not an asset class, argues Wall Street investment bank, slapping evidence and truth in the face

"I believe that small actions taken at individual levels can lead to real changes for the planet, and showing that we care inspires others to take action."