Dan Held on Bitcoin's Immaculate Conception

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Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Thursday 25th October
Company: Picks & Shovels
Role: Co-founder and Director of BD

It is 10 years since Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in that time the protocol has survived so much: state-level bans, the Mt. Gox collapse, the closing of the Silk Road and civil war to name a few. Bitcoin has survived and is a +$100bn network, changing the rules and nature of money.

In this bonus release, I talk with Dan Held from Picks and Shovels about Bitcoin’s immaculate conception.

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Connect with Dan:
- On Twitter @danheld
- On LinkedIn
- On Crunchbase
- On Medium
- On AngelList

Connect with Picks & Shovels:
- Website: https://picks.co/
- On Twitter @picksco
- On Crunchbase
- On AngelList

Dan’s Articles

- Planting Bitcoin:
Species (1/4)
Season (2/4)
Soil (3/4)
Gardening (4/4)
- Bitcoin’s Distribution was Fair
- PoW is Efficient
- Hodlers are the revolutionaries

Mentioned in the show:
- The Bitcoin Whitepaper
- Casascius Physical Bitcoins
- Blockchain.info
- Jevons Paradox
- Ralph Merkle
- Nick Szabo - Unforgeable Costliness

Other relevant WBD podcasts:

- WBD039: The B Foundation and Nouriel Roubini's Testimony to Congress with Giacomo Zucco
- WBD038: Questioning the Obsession with Blockchains and On-Chain Governance with Nic Carter
- WBD037: Jimmy Song on the Game Theory of Bitcoin Attacks and why Proof of Work Needs to be Expensive
- WBD028: Bitcoin Maximalism with Pierre Rochard

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