This is Dan. When the first crypto meetup took place in San Francisco in 2013, Dan got

turned on to Bitcoin and Dan held. When Mt. Gox blew up in tons of people lost money

on the failed exchange, Dan held. When the Bitcoin bull run of 2017 got the world's

attention and then crashed in 2018, Dan held. And now as the director of growth marketing

at Kraken, Dan has seen it all. And through it all, Dan held. Today we're pleased to

welcome Dan held to the show to do more held puns and discuss the past decade of Bitcoin

and crypto. We might also be pouring out a little iced tea for y'all. So hotdle someone

close to you as we hettle our way through episode number 579 of the Bad Crypto Podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, two, three, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one,

two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one, two, one,

and three teams friends pooled side at the Travilla for episode number 579 of the Bad Crypto

Podcast. I'm Joel Kahn. I'm Travis Wright. And that was a rooster. Did you hear the rooster?

Yeah, I heard the rooster. We have the next two episodes. This one with Dan, we're recording

the bookends. That's what we call the front and back of the show because we hear it there.

He's saying buy Bitcoin. Hold it. We record the interviews and then before the

show goes to producer Aaron for edited fine, we we do the bookends, the front and the back of

the show. So we're actually sitting outside your place in a lovely Luquillo in Puerto Rico

today poolside. You guys can hear the the ambiance sound of the roosters and the waterfall that

you have at your pool. The ambiance episode of the Bad Crypto Podcast. In fact, the next episode,

which is going to be episode number 580, we're going to answer your questions about why we move

to Puerto Rico, what the benefits have been financially and personally, emotionally for being here.

Exactly. Yeah. That's good for my experience. Spiritually. My son, Tan, it's been good for that.

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